Ajay Mahal

Finkel Chair of Global Health

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Professor Mahal is the Finkel Chair of Global Health at Monash University and an Adjunct Associate Professor of International Health Economics at Harvard University. Until August 2010, he was Associate Professor of International Health Economics in the Department of Global Health and Population at the Harvard School of Public Health. Professor Mahal holds degrees from Columbia University (Ph. D in Economics, 1995) and the University of Delhi (M.A. (Economics), 1986; B.A. (Economics), 1984). Prior to his appointment at Harvard, Professor Mahal was a senior researcher at the National Council of Applied Economic Research (NCAER) in New Delhi, a non-government household survey and economics research organisation. Professor Mahal’s research focuses on a range of economically relevant questions pertaining to household impacts of health, health financing, ageing and human resources for health and human rights, with a specific focus on India.

His experience on international health systems practice has included (a) being a resident advisor to the Ministry of Health of the Palestinian Authority (1996-98); (b) being a technical advisor to the Indian National Commission on Macroeconomics and Health (2004); and (c) participating as a key member in donor funded health sector reform projects in the state of Andhra Pradesh, India (2002-3; 2008-2010).  He has, in addition, experience in working on health economics and policy research projects in Bangladesh, Botswana, Dominican Republic, Guatemala, Jamaica, Nigeria, Sri Lanka and Ukraine. He has been a consultant to the World Bank, the WHO, the UNDP, the ADB, UNCTAD, and a number of other government and non-government organisations.