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.

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.

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.

Vijaya is currently a freelance Consultant, a non-stream Development Economist and an expert on Quantitative and Qualitative Data Analysis, Cost Benefit Analysis; Planning, Monitoring, Evaluation and Implementation of Research. She holds an MA in Economics and PhD in Economics of Education from Indian Institute of Education, Pune. She has worked over the last 25 years in research sector and in various domains – Education, Health, Rural Women’s empowerment and Development. With Government – KSWDC, KHSDRP, and top non-government organizations like Centre for Global Health research (CGHR), St. John’s Research Institute, Azim Premji Foundation, Bangalore; Indian Institute of Education, Pune. As President of Multipurpose Organization for Training, Health, Education and Rehabitation (MOTHER), Tumkur district, Karnataka, she took up the challenging opportunity of establishing Rural Economic Hubs for Rural Development and Women Empowerment. She undertook research and evaluation studies for international organizations IFAD, World Bank, etc. for evaluating the development projects/schemes in Maharashtra, Andhra Pradesh and Karnataka.

Anuhya is an early career researcher who received her MSc in Health Economics from the University of York and a recipient of the Postgraduate York Gold Award 2019. She had a brief stint at the Centre for Health Economics, York before moving back to India to pursue her Ph.D. as a Junior Research Fellow. She is the founder of BeyondBlood (An organization that initiated an inclusive menstrual-mental health movement to spotlight PMDD and PME). She also sits as a member of the Steering Committee at Global South Coalition for Dignified Menstruation, Nepal. As a Policy Fellow at YLAC, she was part of a four-member team that Drafted the Menstruation Benefit Bill 2018 for the office of Mr. Ninong Ering, Member of Parliament (Lok Sabha) and created an advocacy campaign for menstrual leave. Her published work focused on menstruation, mental health, medical tourism, gender equity, and financial inclusion. During her time at the University of York, she has fostered her academic interests in heterodox perspectives, feminist economics, class-caste-gender intersectionality in health, the economics of disability and qualitative methodologies. She has also worked with Centre for Economic and Social Studies, Hyderabad on MDGs and was associated with organizations like Child Rights and You, Make A Difference and International Association for premenstrual disorders.

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.

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.

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).

Ramna is working as an Associate Professor of Economics in the School of Humanities and Social Sciences at the Indian Institute of Technology Mandi, Himachal Pradesh. Her research activities deal with the in-depth understanding and analysis of the causes of health inequalities, their bearing on poverty and economic disparities, along with the gender differentials in health. In addition, she is also focusing on measuring energy poverty, energy consumption, environment and health.

Salim received his Ph.D. in Economics from Jadavpur University, Kolkata. He is currently working as Associate Professor of Economics at Tripura 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. His areas of current research interest include Reproductive and Child Health (RCH), Health as human capital, and Strategic investment in tertiary health care.