Tamara Hafner

Tamara Hafner, PhD is a principal technical advisor with nonprofit global health organization Management Sciences for Health, where she serves as research advisor and technical strategy lead of one of the portfolios on the USAID-funded MTaPS program. She earned her PhD in public administration, with a concentration in global health policy and science and technology policy from the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs at Syracuse University. Hafner holds a BS in zoology and biochemistry from the University of the West Indies and a MS in environmental biology from SUNY-ESF.

A pharmacist holds a medicine containing chlorine dioxide at the Farmacia Boliviana, amid the outbreak of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), in Cochabamba, Bolivia, on July 21, 2020. The photo shows a man wearing a mask holding up a wine glass filled with a bright yellow liquid. REUTERS/Danilo Balderrama

Poverty

A Wake-Up Call Both Brutal and Urgent

by Tamara Hafner, Javier Guzman

For faster medical product access in low- and middle-income countries, make long-term investments in regulatory systems