Udaya, a Statistician/Demographer, is on the faculty of International Institute for Population Sciences, Mumbai. He is engaged in research and teaching on Population and Development issues and has a number of national and international publications to his credit. In recent times, he has served in various capacities of guiding scientific research in social sciences. During his two and a half decades of teaching and research experience, he has contributed in the areas of aging, health, nutrition as well as population policy and programme evaluation. His current research interest includes measurement issues in health and equity focus in evaluation of outcomes. His scholastic distinctions include: (i) Takemi Fellow, in the dept. of Population and International Health, Harvard school of Public Health, Boston USA during 2003-05; (ii) Associate member of Southampton Statistical Sciences Research Institute, University of Southampton, UK, and (iii) Expert group member to review the draft handbook on `Designing of Household Sample Surveys’ at the United Nations Statistics Division, UN, New York.

Sunil is a social scientist by education, researcher, weekend farmer, policy nerd, weekend farmer, amateur film maker, activist by passion, die hard romantic and cynical optimist. A career spanning more than three decades of engagement in the health and development sector. Served with WHO, as cluster head for Health Systems Development in the India Country Office and at SEARO. Was an advisor to the MOHFW, GOI and Dept. of Health, Govt. of Kerala on health care regulations, Dept. of Health, Govt. of Delhi on setting up and operationalizing Mohalla Clinics. Served as a technical expert in various national committees and published articles and reports in national and international peer reviewed journals. Presently spends time at the intersection of research and policy, travelling, reading, writing, teaching, delving into spirituality, mysticism and getting involved in initiatives that make a difference to the lives of people.

Willam received his BA and MA in Economics from Goa University and then MPhil in Applied Economics and PhD in Economics from Centre for Development Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University. He is currently a faculty member at Population Research Centre of Institute of Economic Growth (IEG), New Delhi. Prior to joining IEG, he worked at BITS-Pilani Goa Campus. He has been visiting Lecturer to a number of places such as TERI University, New Delhi, Central University of South Bihar, Gaya; International Institute of Population Sciences IIPS, Mumbai; SRM University, Tamil Nadu. He is also a Bernard Lown Scholar, Visiting Scientist at Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health, Harvard University. His research interests in Health Economics, Demography, Development Economics and Program Evaluation. Currently he is involved in research and technical support on maternal and child nutrition in India for the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, the NITI Aayog, Tata Trusts and the UNICEF. He is also engaged in monitoring and evaluation of National Health Mission (NHM). He has published good number of articles in peer reviewed Indian and International top journals on Health issues.

Reshmi is an Associate Professor in the Department of Economics at FLAME University, Pune, India. She holds a Ph.D. in Economics from Northern Illinois University, specializing in Development Economics and Econometrics, alongside a Postgraduate Diploma in Health Services Management from the Indian Institute of Public Health and professional training from Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. Reshmi teaches Mathematics for Economics, Econometrics, and Statistics courses, emphasizing quantitative rigor and analytical skills. Her research, published in top journals like World Development and Spatial Economic Analysis, spans health and financial economics with a focus on the socio-economic impacts of policy. Her recent work covers consumer confidence, economic policy uncertainty, and household resilience to healthcare costs, presented at international conferences. Reshmi has provided research advisory expertise for the Government of Jharkhand’s Economic Survey (2015–2018) and contributed to the Post-Sachar Evaluation Committee Report on Muslim Education in India (2014). She is also a Visiting Senior Fellow of the Institute for Human Development, New Delhi. She also received research grants from institutions like the Asian Development Bank and Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research; her work integrates evidence- based insights to advance research, teaching, and policy.

Salim received his Ph.D. in Economics from Jadavpur University, Kolkata. He is currently working as Professor of Economics at Tripura University (A Central University). He has published four books and a number of research papers in national and international journals on the issues of poverty, human capital and public economics. As Lead Researcher, he has prepared the policy documents like ‘Status of RCH for the Slum Dwellers in Agartala’, funded by the National Health Mission, Govt. of Tripura, and “Evaluation of the State Finances of Tripura (2006- 07 to 2016-17)“, for the Fifteenth Finance Commission, Govt. of India. He is presently the Coordinator & Head of the North Eastern Council, Govt. of India sponsored Entrepreneurship Development Centre and Incubation centre, Tripura University. His areas of research interest include Reproductive and Child Health (RCH), Health as human capital, and Strategic investment in tertiary health care.

Manisha is currently working as a Professor in Development Economics at Mumbai School of Economics and Public Policy (MSE-PP), University of Mumbai. She is given additional charge of Director of Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar International Research Center at University of Mumbai. She is also currently the coordinator of Research Projects funded by Tribal Development Department of Government of Maharashtra at MSEPP. She has completed a research project funded by National Institute of Educational Planning & Administration on “Employment and Employability of Higher Education Graduates in India” in recent past. She is a member of Research and Recognition Committee in the subject of Economics at Mumbai University as well as SNDT Women’s University. She is nominated on the Academic Board and Management Board of MSE-PP. Eight research scholars have completed their Ph.D. under her guidance and six scholars are currently pursuing research under her guidance at MSE-PP in University of Mumbai. She specializes in Development Economics, Health Economics and Environmental Economics.

Vinod’s core areas of interest include issues relating to Economics of Education and Health. He got his Ph.D. in Economics of Education from Mangalore University. Currently he is serving as Professor and Director of CMDR at Dharwad. He has served as consultant for many national and international organizations. For example he has worked on research studies funded by Ford Foundation, IDRC Canada, DFID, USAID. He was part of the WHO’s international team for the development of Reproductive Health Accounts. He has some of the pioneering studies relating to Health Accounts at the micro level. He has also served as member of various committees at the state level. He has also been member other professional and academic bodies at the national level. He has many publications in reputed journals. He has also co-authored three books on Health Education and Development. He played a key role in the formation of Indian Health Economics and Policy Association (IHEPA). He has served this association as Founder Joint Secretary for six years.

Godwin Sree Kulakkal is currently Associate Professor of Economics at Government College for Women, Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala, India. He was awarded PhD in Health Economics by Achutha Menon Centre for Health Science Studies, Sree Chitra Tirunal Insitute for Medical Sciences and Technology, Trivandrum. He had Post Doctoral Fellowship at IIM, Ahmedabad. He was the Hon. Secretary of Indian Health Economics and Policy Association. He was an Associate Fellow at Inter University Centre for Alternative Economics, University of Kerala. He presented his academic works in different national and international venues. He has a few publications in the field of health economics. He is in the review panel of WHO Bulletin, British Medical Journal, Science Publishing Group etc. His areas of interest includes health care financing, road traffic accidents, philosophy of economics. He has completed a large scale survey on benevolent sexism among young women in Kerala.

Rudra has obtained his Ph.D. in Economics from Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi through Centre for Development Studies, Trivandrum in Economics. He is currently assistant Professor at Gujarat Institute of Development Research (GIDR), Ahmedabad. His research interests are human development, poverty and nutrition, livelihood, inequality in health and opportunities and Natural resource management. He teaches research methodology, quantitative and qualitative techniques for empirical studies and development practices to M.Phil and Ph.D. scholars in workshops/training programmes organised by GIDR and other research institutes, universities and NGOs. He has undertaken more than 20 research projects and consultancies so far, as lead author or co-author for various agencies of central and state governments, reputed NGOs and policy practitioners. He has published more than 20 research articles in peer-reviewed journals and edited books published by national and international publishers as first author or co-authors. He is life member of various professional bodies like Indian Health Economics and Policy Association (IHEPA), Indian Association of Social Sciences and Health (IASSH), Indian Labour Economics Association, Indian Association of Social Science Institutions (IASSI), Indian Social Science Congress (ISSC) and Association of Gerontology, India (AGI).

Mayanka is a demographer with an academic background in Economics and an interest in Sociology and Health Sciences. She has a Ph.D. in Population Studies from the International Institute for Population Sciences in Mumbai and was the inaugural recipient of the India Fellowship offered by South Asia institute, Harvard University. Broadly she works on health and economic aspects of the ageing community spanning over public health priorities for the aged and their social epidemiology. She aims to find a link across these stratified research ideas i.e. financial funding of health care, health care utilization, inter-generational relationships, health behaviours and health outcomes of the elderly. She currently serves as Assistant Professor of Demography at the Indian Institute of Technology Mandi.

Sunil is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Economics at FLAME University, Pune. He also serves as the Director of the Centre for Research in Wellbeing and Happiness at FLAME University. He was affiliated with Geographic Insights Lab, Harvard University as a Research Fellow and a Research Professor at the Centre for Precision Public Health, Korea University, Seoul. He has over four years of experience and before this, he was associated with IIHMR University, Jaipur as an Assistant Professor. He received his Doctorate Degree in Economics from the Central University of Gujarat and was affiliated as an ICSSR Doctoral Fellow at the Institute of Economic Growth, Delhi. His research interests include Health Economics, Health and Nutrition Policy, and Development Economics. His research work has appeared in reputed journals including The Lancet Global Health, Scientific Reports (Nature), Social Indicators Research, Social Science and Medicine. He is currently involved in research on precision public health policy designing, and socioeconomic determinants of well-being among older adults and the elderly.