J. Brad Schwartz

J. Brad Schwartz received his Ph.D. in Economics from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1982. He taught university economics for 10 years - 2 at the University of South Florida and 8 years when he returned to UNC at Chapel Hill. His research specializes in the economics and financing of health care in developing countries, and his publications appear in the World Bank Economic Review, Economic Development and Cultural Change, Bulletin of the World Health Organization, Development Outreach and the Southern Economic Journal among others. He has worked as a consultant for the Asian Development Bank, The World Bank, bilateral donor agencies and ministries of health in more than a dozen countries, mostly in Asia including Laos, The Philippines, Viet Nam, Cambodia, Thailand, Indonesia, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, Nepal and China. He currently resides in Vientiane, Laos where he provided technical assistance to the Lao Ministry of Health to establish and expand a nationwide Health Equity Fund to give free health care for the poor.