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I have worked as Additional Professor and Additional Professor (retired) during 2010-2023 and currently working as a Visiting Faculty at the Public Health Foundation of India, New Delhi. I am currently working as an independent researcher and consultant to different national and international institutions. I have Master’s degree in Economics (Ranchi University, India) and D.Phil. in Public Health (Health Economics) from the University of Oxford. I was a Takemi Fellow at the Harvard School of Public Health during 2007-08. I have an experience of teaching and research of more than 30 years at different institutions in India. My core area of research includes health economics, healthcare financing, financial risk protection, economic evaluation and equity in financial burden of healthcare. In the past, I have served as Member, Expert Committee on National Minimum Wage, Ministry of Labour and Employment, Government of India; Member Sub-Committee on Out of Pocket Expenditure in India, National Health Account 2014, National Health System Resource Centre; Member, State Health Account Technical Group, Government of Rajasthan. I have published three books and more than 75 research papers in different national and international journals.

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