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I'm Puru Gaur: a Director of Competitive Intelligence at a leading life sciences advisory firm, a Doctor of Business Administration in Health candidate at University College London — ranked #9 in the world in the QS World University Rankings 2026 — and the builder of a family of practical ventures. This site is my hub: the work, the research, the ventures, and the mentoring.
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The public record of my full-time profession: published analysis, webinars, and panels — collected on one page.
I'm an Atlanta-based biopharma intelligence leader. I turn deals, data, and regulatory chess moves into decisions people can act on.
My career spans Biogen, PhRMA, AmerisourceBergen (now Cencora), EVERSANA, and Vir Biotechnology. Today, I'm a Director of Competitive Intelligence at a leading life sciences advisory firm, where I advise clients across the spectrum — from multi-billion-dollar pharmaceutical companies to smaller biotechs.
I hold an MPH in Health Policy and Management from Emory University, home of the Rollins School of Public Health, ranked #2 in the nation by U.S. News & World Report, and an MBA in Healthcare Management from the University of Arizona, ranked #7 in the nation by U.S. News & World Report. I'm now a Doctor of Business Administration in Health candidate at the Global Business School for Health, University College London — ranked #9 in the world in the QS World University Rankings 2026.
My doctoral research asks a practical question: how do health systems pay for one-time curative therapies when the payment system was built for chronic care? I'm studying outcomes-based financing — spreading the cost over time and tying payment to whether the therapy delivers the result it promises — beginning with advanced therapies for vision restoration. One of my starting points is the 2008 mortgage crisis — a floor, not a ceiling, for how pooled financing should be built. Read the research →
Beyond the desk, I volunteer as a Taekwondo instructor for children in under-resourced neighbourhoods and serve as a public-health advisor with Ladybug for Girls®. Ladybug for Girls® Sport Wellness is an American sports-based youth development program that provides girls ages 5-12 years with evidence-based health education classes and sport safety resources. The principle is simple: plant trees under whose shade you do not expect to sit.
A one-time cell or gene therapy can deliver decades of benefit, but the bill arrives on day one — and the savings land with everyone except the payer who wrote the cheque: patients, families, employers, and public programs. My doctoral research at University College London — ranked #9 in the world — asks how health systems close that gap.
My starting point is the 2008 mortgage crisis. Structured finance didn't fail because pooling risk is a bad idea; it failed on misaligned incentives, weak underwriting, mispriced risk, and pools nobody could see inside. Treat 2008 as the floor, not the ceiling — the minimum lessons a new structure has to beat, not the limit of what's possible.
So the work tests a structure built to beat that floor: payments tied to independently verified outcomes, risk pooled honestly across patients and payers, transparent terms, and stress tests for the bad years — starting with therapies that restore vision, where the return shows up as independence and work, not just sight.
Read the research →Momo, a Golden Retriever, brings the enthusiasm. Leo, a German Shepherd, brings the standards. Together they review the household's important decisions daily — walks, snacks, and whether a plan is actually ready.
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The ventures change. The operating standard doesn't.
Every decision runs through Puru — nothing ships on autopilot.
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No fake reviews, no invented results, and no borrowed credibility.
Public claims link to public sources, so you can check the work.
If something is wrong, it gets corrected publicly.
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