Ph.D. in Management (IIM Indore), FCMA (ICAI), Independent Director (IICA), PGDHEP

Finance and Accounting, Corporate Finance, Management Accounting, Direct and Indirect Taxation, Quantitative Research Methodology, Health Finance and Health Economics

•   Fellow Centre for Global Health Economics, Institute for Global Health, University College of London (UCL), UK
•   Worked as teaching faculty with IIHMR University Jaipur in the areas of Financial Accounting, Financial Management, Quantitative Techniques and Management Accounting.
•   Worked as teaching faculty with the Institute of Cost Accountants of India (ICAI) for teaching Financial Accounting, Cost & Management Accounting, Fundamentals of Economics and Quantitative Techniques.
•   Worked as visiting teaching faculty with Ranchi University for teaching Security Analysis and Portfolio Management, Financial Accounting and Cost & Management Accounting.

•   Currently working as Senior Programme Manager with National Centre of Excellence for Management of Severe Acute Malnutrition (NCOESAM) with Lady Hardinge Medical College (LHMC) and associated Kalawati Saran Children’s Hospital (KSCH), New Delhi
•   Worked as Deputy Director- Research and Health Economics, Mamta Health Institute for Mother and Child (Mamta-HIMC), New Delhi
•   Worked as Director Finance cum Health Economist with Ekjut
•   Worked as Regional Finance Officer with Water Aid India
•   Worked as Management Consultant with PriceWater House Coopers (P) Ltd.

•   UK Welcome Trust full Doctoral programme scholarship 2012-15 at Indian Institute of Management (IIM), Indore.
•   Received best paper (1st prize) award in the oral presentation category in IYCNCON & HMBCON 2022 organised between 18-20th November 2022
•   Authored one book “Financial Management and Legal Affairs for Non-Profit Organisations In India” (available on amazon, flip kart)
•   Published 50 research articles in national and international peer reviewed journals
•   Developed national guidelines on growth monitoring and promotion
•   Developed state guidelines of different states on community-based management of acute malnutrition.

•   “Impact of Publicly Financed Health Insurance from Equity and Efficiency Perspective” (Doctoral thesis). Vikalpa (Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad (IIM-A) and SAGE Publication.
•   “Protocol for the economic evaluation of a community-based intervention to improve growth among children under two in rural India (CARING trial)” (2016). British Medical Journal. BMJ Open 2016;6:e012046 doi:10.1136/bmjopen-2016-012046
•   “Protocol of the Cost Effectiveness Analysis of a Community based Management of Acute Malnutrition (CMAM) Intervention with Children in India” (2018). Journal of Disease and Global Health
•   “Economic evaluation of participatory learning and action with women’s groups facilitated by Accredited Social Health Activists to improve birth outcomes in rural eastern India” (2017). Cost Effectiveness Resource Allocation (Bio-Med Central) Cost Eff Resour Alloc (2017) 15:2 DOI 10.1186/s12962-017-0064-9
•   “Ethics in allocating health care resources using cost effectiveness analysis” (2017). Medico Friend Circle Bulletin 375-376. March-July 2017
•   “Cost Effectiveness Analysis of Health Care Intervention: The Emerging Role of CMAs” (2013) The Management Accountant; September’ 2013; 49(9); 1038-1043 (ISSN 0972-3528).
•   “Determinants of Out-Of-Pocket and Catastrophic Health Expenditure: A Cross-sectional Assessment” (2015). British Journal of Medicine & Medical Research; 11(8): 1-11; DOI: 10.9734/BJMMR/2016/21470 (ISSN: 2231- 0614, NLM ID: 101570965)
•   “Out-Of-Pocket and Catastrophic Health Expenditure: A Cross-sectional Assessment of a Rural District of the state of Jharkhand” (2015). Journal of Disease and Global Health; 4(3):130-140 (ISSN: 2454-1842).
•   “Reviewing the cost effectiveness of community mobilisation interventions using participatory learning and action with women’s groups to reduce neo-natal mortality in Eastern India” (2015) https://ihea2015.abstractsubmit.org/presentations/13240/
•   “Publicly Finance Health Insurance: A Panacea for Universal Health Insurance in Resource Poor Countries” (2013) European Academic Research, 1(9) (ISSN 2286-4822)
•   “Assessing Impact of India’s National Health Insurance Scheme (RSBY): Is There Any Evidence of Increased Health Care Utilisation?” (2014) International Journal of Humanities and Social Science; 4(5); ISSN 2220-8488 (Print), 2221-0989 (Online)
•   “A Critical Assessment of Indian National Health Insurance Scheme – Rashtriya Swasthya Bima Yojna (RSBY)” (2013). European Academic Research, 1(8) (ISSN 2286-4822)
•   “Collecting and analysing cost data for complex public health trials: reflections on practice” (2014) Global Health Action 2014, 7: 23257 - http://dx.doi.org/10.3402/gha.v7.23257
•   “Integration of Microfinance and Health Education: Evidence from a c-RCT in Rural India” (2011) www.econ.yale.educonference neudc11papers paper215
•   Association between anthropometric criteria and body composition among children aged 6- 59 months with severe acute malnutrition: a cross-sectional assessment from India. BMC Nutr. 2022 Jun 23;8(1):56. doi: 10.1186/s40795-022-00551-6. PMID: 35739560; PMCID:PMC9219132.
•   “Effects of participatory learning and action with women’s groups, counselling through home visits and crèches on undernutrition among children under three years in eastern India: a quasi-experimental study and cost- effectiveness analysis” BMC Public Health
•   Evaluation of a training program for life skills education and financial literacy to community health workers in India: a quasi-experimental study. Bio Med Central (BMC) Health Serv Res 21, 46 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1186/s12913-020-06025-4