Eli Lilly Takes $7M Gamble On Global Health Working... In Indiana

Last week, Chairman, President and CEO of Eli Lilly and Company (NYSE: LLY) Dave Ricks managed to merge powerful ideas about the context of health, global research initiatives and job competition in the state of Indiana into one talk. And to those in public health it made perfect sense, and it made for exciting news. What Mr. Ricks ultimately proposed to do was take ideas that Lilly had learned in emerging markets – often referred to as developing countries – and apply those to neighborhoods in the U.S. with similar economic and health characteristics.