Dr Ajay Mahal is an economist with over 25 years of experience in health systems and policy research and evaluation. His recent research has focused on the evaluation of health system interventions. Ajay's research interests span a range of economically relevant questions about household and national-level impacts of (ill) health, human resources for health, fiscal federalism and health, and social protection. He has also been engaged in collaborative research on the intersection of clinical epidemiology and household economics.
His experience in international health systems practice has included serving as (a) resident advisor to the Ministry of Health of the Palestinian Authority for a project of the Harvard Institute for International Development in Gaza; (b) technical advisor to the Indian National Commission on Macroeconomics and Health; (c) senior advisor on a health sector transformation project funded by the government of Malaysia under the office of the Prime Minister; and (d) as health economics advisor to the PNG National Department of Health.