William Padula

William Padula (born 1984) is a professor of pharmaceutical and health economics at the University of Southern California. He is a fellow in the Leonard D. Schaeffer Center for Health Policy & Economics. He is a co-founder and principal for Stage Analytics. From 2021 to 2022, he was the President and chief executive officer of the National Pressure Injury Advisory Panel.

Padula has research interests in the economics of patient safety and health technology assessment. Specifically, he has published papers that explore the value of vaccines, the economics of pressure ulcer prevention, and developed legislation on drug pricing. In addition, he has served as lead health economist on a number of high-profile cases related to the opioid crisis. He is a past winner of the annual Bernie J. O'Brien Award in health economics from the International Society for PharmacoEconomics & Outcomes Research, and the Thomas Stewart Founders Award for excellence in public policy. Provided by Wikipedia