Priya Sharma is the Senior Policy and Innovative Financing Advisor in the Global Health Bureau’s Center for Accelerating Innovation and Impact. In her current role, Priya uses innovative financing mechanisms and market shaping interventions to accelerate development, introduction and access to life-saving commodities, and leverage private sector funding to achieve global health goals. She helped design and launch USAID’s first advance purchase commitment for Zika diagnostics, manages USAID’s first development impact bond in global health, and co-authored Investing for Impact, an educational resource for development practitioners interested in learning more about trends and non-traditional approaches to financing global health.
Prior to joining USAID, Priya worked as health economist at the Office of Health Economics in London, where she conducted research and consulting on a variety of topics including market incentives for pharmaceutical companies. Priya has also worked at the Center for Global Development and the RAND Corporation. She has published in a number of journals including Pediatrics, The International Journal of the Economics of Business, and Nature Reviews Drug Discovery. Priya received her MSc in International Health Policy (with Health Economics) from the London School of Economics and Political Science, and she completed her undergraduate studies at Tufts University.