Ravi Anupindi, M.E., M.S., Ph.D., is Colonel William G. and Ann C. Svetlich Professor of Operations Research and Management at the Stephen M. Ross School of Business. His main research areas include technology and business innovation, global supply chain management, health care delivery in low and middle- income countries, economic development, and environmental & social sustainability. In his work global healthcare delivery he brings multi-disciplinary and multi-stakeholder perspectives, working collaboratively with academics from the public health and medicine, as well as practitioners in India and Africa. Specifically, in communicable diseases his work has focused on malaria and tuberculosis on issues like better costing models, models of effective resource allocations, and patient-centric service delivery models. For NCDs, his ongoing work has focused on cardiovascular disease interventions and operational analysis of emergency response systems in India. He also has an interest and ongoing projects on drug shortages in the US, effectiveness of generic drugs, and challenges of scaling COVID-19 testing. He serves as a faculty expert on a task force to look into health care supply chain and national security issues. Dr. Anupindi is also co- Chair of the annual Global Health Supply Chain Summit (GHSCS) that brings together academics, country planners, NGOs, practitioners, private sector, and representatives of various multi- lateral and donor agencies to discuss the issues, progress, (new) developments in global health supply chains and delivery. Dr. Anupindi teaches classes in Global Supply Chain Management; Innovations in Global Health Delivery; and Sustainable Operations and Supply Chain Management. He is the co-author of a textbook, Managing Business Process Flows (3rd Edition), Prentice Hall, 2011. He has also authored several case studies in sustainability, healthcare delivery in low & middle income countries, and supply chain risk management. Under a USAID grant, he has assisted University of Johannesburg, South Africa develop a graduate degree program in Supply Chain Management. Dr. Anupindi is chair of (UM) President’s Advisory Committee on Labor Standards and Human Rights, was the founding Faculty Director of the Center for Value Chain Innovation (2017-2020) and the Ross Master of Supply Chain Management program (2008-2015). He is a Research Fellow at the William Davidson Institute and faculty associate with the Institute of Health Policy and Innovation, Michigan GlobalREACH, Erb Institute, Donia Center for Human Rights, Sustainable Food Systems Initiative and the Center for South Asian Studies. Dr. Anupindi is recipient the Ross School of Business Neary Teaching Excellence Award (2019), Victor L. Bernard Teaching Leadership Award (2019), and the CORE (Contribution to Research Environment) Award (2015). He was a founding board member of the People that Deliver Initiative and now serves on the board of the William Davidson Institute, the Fair Labor Association, and ProjectStanley; and as a technical advisor to Vital Ocean.
