Aniruddha Vinaykumar Patil Keywords Health education private sector Read more about Aniruddha Vinaykumar Patil As the Head of the Social Sectors Team, Private Sector Operations at the Asian Development Bank, Aniruddha Patil is responsible for ADB’s direct lending to and investments in private healthcare and education companies in Asia and the Pacific. Prior to joining ADB, Aniruddha worked for Macquarie Capital in Singapore, The Boston Consulting Group in Munich and the World Bank in New Delhi.
How Tobacco Taxes Can Expand Fiscal Space and Benefit the Poor Read more about How Tobacco Taxes Can Expand Fiscal Space and Benefit the Poor Smoking is a global health hazard. According to the World Health Organization, around 5-6 million people from around the world died because of tobacco use in 2010. Without effective interventions, this number could double by 2030.
Lainie Thomas Keywords Health social protection Read more about Lainie Thomas Ms. Thomas leads the implementation of ADB’s fragile and conflict-affected situations and small island developing states approach, which institutionalizes differentiated strategies to improve the performance of ADB’s operations in these contexts. Prior to this, Ms. Thomas oversaw ADB's work on civil society engagement from its NGO and Civil Society Center. She designed and implemented a series of reforms including how ADB tracks and measures civil society engagement, and she boosted civil society participation in ADB operations.
Environmental Analysis of Waste-to-Fuel Projects: Well-to-Wheel Read more about Environmental Analysis of Waste-to-Fuel Projects: Well-to-Wheel This presentation discusses the concept of "well-to-wheel" or the process of fuel production and purification, transport of fuel to the vehicle, and the corresponding analysis. It digs into the environmental effects of this process, such as air pollution, climate impacts, and community perception.
Transport for Green Cities Read more about Transport for Green Cities This presentation analyzes the causal relationship between transport and the other sectors. It examines the transport trends in Asia and the Pacific, and also suggests a number of strategies for greening transport. ADB’s transport transformation and green city projects are discussed.
Abul Kalam Azad Keywords Health Bangladesh public policy on health Read more about Abul Kalam Azad Abul Kalam has long experience and excellent skills in the following fields:
Framing the Context: ICT-Enabled Health Systems – a Luxury, an Option, or a Necessity? Read more about Framing the Context: ICT-Enabled Health Systems – a Luxury, an Option, or a Necessity? This session was organized with the objective to show how ICT for health provides strategic returns on investments that reap benefits on operational efficiency, social good, and health systems performance. Experts shared to the participants their experiences with ICT-enabled health systems.
Ali Ghufron Mukti Keywords Health health care Read more about Ali Ghufron Mukti Ali Ghufron Mukti is now a President Director of BPJS Kesehatan(The Indonesian Social Security Administering Body for Health) after being inaugurated by the President of the Republic of Indonesia in February 2021. His area of interest are epidemiology, health insurance, managed health care and health financing and as an international expert with more than 40 journals published.
David Evans Keywords economics Health education early child development agriculture and social safety Read more about David Evans David Evans is a senior fellow at the Center for Global Development, working on education, health, and social safety nets. Previously he was at the World Bank, where he co-authored the World Development Report 2018, Learning to Realize Education’s Promise, coordinated impact evaluation work for sub-Saharan Africa, and managed education projects in Brazil. Evans has evaluated education, early child development, agriculture, health, and social safety net programs in Brazil, the Gambia, Kenya, Mexico, Nigeria, Sierra Leone, and Tanzania.
Strengthening the Vocational Higher Education in Indonesia Read more about Strengthening the Vocational Higher Education in Indonesia This presentation discusses the Indonesian Qualification Framework and new regulation in higher education as the means of strengthening the quality of human resources in Indonesia. It also covers the development of the country’s vocational higher education using the experience of Electronics Engineering Institute of Surabaya as a case example.