Managing Director & Senior Partner, Global Sector Leader, Biopharmaceuticals
New Jersey
Priya Chandran is a core member of the Health Care and Public Sector practices at Boston Consulting Group. She has been at BCG for 21 years and in that time has worked extensively across all sectors of the health care industry. Priya is a member of the Health Care and Public Sector leadership teams and leads the firm’s Biopharma practice and US Public Sector Health Practice.
Priya is passionate about health care product and system innovation, access and affordability, and driving change. Her work across the public and private sector is focused on these themes.
Priya's biopharma work at BCG has spanned a range of topics across major biopharma companies, including corporate strategy, M&A, discovery and development innovation and productivity, medical affairs and regulatory. She has also partnered across the health care ecosystem on topics of value-based care, market access, affordability, and innovative models for access. Priya has worked across a full range of primary care and specialty TAs as well as a range of modalities including small molecules, vaccines, biologics and CGTs.
In the public sector, Priya has worked across various HHS agencies including CMS, FDA, NIH. She has led programs on topics including COVID response, vaccines and therapeutics, healthcare quality, pandemic preparedness and response, organizational effectiveness and change, data, and analytics.
Prior to joining BCG, Priya was a researcher and project analyst at Ligand Pharmaceuticals in San Diego.
BCG’s Global Chair Rich Lesser and Priya Chandran hosted a discussion with Dave Ricks, Chair and CEO of Eli Lilly and Company, and Tom Polen, Chairman, Chief Executive Officer, and President of Beckton Dickinson, to explore what’s ahead for the industry.
Joaquin Duato, chairman and CEO of Johnson & Johnson, and Dr. Bernd Montag, CEO of Siemens Healthineers, highlight three top priorities for CEOs this year: strategizing for growth, building financial resilience, and delivering societal impact through sustainability and health equity.
Bristol Myers Squibb CEO Giovanni Caforio joins Dexcom CEO Kevin Sayer to discuss the importance of partnerships, inequities in health care, how to best care for patients, and more.