Bhaven N. Sampat
Vita:
Download here
(Please contact Professor Sampat via email if you’d like copies of his papers or syllabi)
Bhaven Sampat, PhD, is an assistant professor in the Department of Health Policy and Management and (by courtesy) in the School of International and Public Affairs at Columbia University, and also teaches in the Sustainable Development PhD program at Columbia's Earth Institute.
An economist by training, Sampat is centrally interested in issues at the intersection of health policy and innovation policy. His current projects examine the impacts of new global patent laws on innovation and access to medicines in developing countries, the political economy of the National Institutes of Health, the roles of the public and private sectors in pharmaceutical innovation, and institutional aspects of patent systems. Dr. Sampat has also written extensively on the effects of university patenting and "entrepreneurship" on academic medicine, and is actively involved in policy debates related to these issues. He co-created the first free, searchable database of post--TRIPs patent applications in India, india.bigpatents.org. (See here for background on this effort.)
Dr. Sampat was previously an Assistant Professor at the School of Public Policy at Georgia Tech, where he won the “Faculty Member of the Year” teaching award in 2001-2 and in 2002-3. From 2003 to 2005 he was a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Scholar in Health Policy Research at the University of Michigan.
He is recipient of a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation "Investigator Award" to study how the NIH allocates its funds across disease areas. (See here, here, and here for more information.) He also serves as principal investigator on a Ford Foundation initiative examining patent policy in developing countries, and as director of the Columbia-Stanford Consortium on biomedical innovation.
Contact information:
Department of Health Policy and Management
Columbia University
600 W 168th Street, Room 604
New York, NY 10032
(212) 305-7293
