Asia Healthcare Blog is focused on providing analysis of East and Southeast Asia’s healthcare challenges as well as its business opportunities. Predominance is given to China matters. Our writers come from a wide range of academic and professional backgrounds, and all have spent a considerable amount of time living and working in China.
Benjamin Shobert, MBA:
Ben is a member of the National Committee on US-China Relations and holds an advisory board seat at . He is a columnist for the Asia Times on US-China trade and economic policy matters, with a particular focus on how relations between the two countries are being impacted post the 2008 financial crisis. As a founder of the consulting firm Teleos, he was an early advocate for Chinese companies moving away from cost-only business models towards ones that emphasized brand building, innovation and product development. He founded Teleos Healthcare which licensed, capitalized and commercialized the IP for an OTC medical appliance used to help stop nosebleeds. This company successfully partnered with a major US pharmaceutical company on the product launch for the hemophilia and VWD bleeding disorder community. In addition, Ben has successfully managed projects in China across a number of industries, ranging from consumer goods to more complex engineered products. He holds his MBA from Duke University in Durham, North Carolina.
Lua Wilkinson, MA, RD:
Lua Wilkinson, MA, RD, is a medical anthropologist, registered dietitian, international development junkie and China enthusiast living and researching in China on a US Fulbright Graduate Fellowship. Her current research focus is on nutrition and the role of social inequities, school nutrition programs, infant feeding among migrant women, worldwide impacts and causes of malnutrition, and micronutrient fortification and supplementation. You can check out more of her writing at .
Tayler Cox, MS:
Tayler Cox is a Northern Californian and has been living in Beijing for two years, first studying at Beijing Language University and more recently working in finance at a local angel investment firm. She received a BA in Human Biology and MS in Management Science and Engineering, with an emphasis on health policy analysis, from Stanford University. She blogs on nutrition and food safety issues in China at .
Damjan DeNoble:
Damjan is in his second year at the University of Michigan Law School, where he is working with clients involved in the micro-finance and telecom industries. Before coming to Ann Arbor, he spent several years living and working in China. Last summer he clerked at the Seattle offices of , a boutique international law firm best known for its widely respected . He received his BA in Public Policy, with a concentration in health policy, from Duke University. He and James Flanagan founded Asia Healthcare Blog, in 2009.
James Flanagan:
After a few years of living in Singapore, James headed to Montreal to study at McGill where he received a B.Com in 2006. He jumped on the first plane back to Asia and landed in Beijing. After trying his hands at a couple of different projects, he focused on developing a consulting firm focusing on Asian IT/Biotech firms. Currently, James Flanagan is on the board of The Beijing Rotaract Club, and spends most of his time working on TedxBeijing 2012 with his laptop, in Beijing, PRC. He and Damjan Denoble founded Asia Healthcare Blog, in 2009.