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B.Sc. (Hons.) (University of Calcutta);

M.A.; M.Phil; Ph.D. (Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi)

Dr. Indranil Mukhopadhyay

Professor, Jindal School of Government and Public Policy

Email imukhopadhyay@jgu.edu.in
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B.Sc. (Hons.) (University of Calcutta);

M.A.; M.Phil; Ph.D. (Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi)

Biography

Dr. Indranil Mukhopadhyay is a Professor. Indranil has a PhD in public health and health economics, M Phil in Public Health, and MA in Economics, all from the Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) in New Delhi. Indranil is a visiting fellow at Centre for Social and  Economic Progress, New Delhi.

Indranil teaches public health, health economics, comparative health systems, development economics, mixed method research, political economy and global health.

He has eighteen years of research and teaching experience in health economics and health care financing. Indranil works on themes related to health systems, health economics and care financing, climate change and human health, poverty, vector-borne diseases, National Health Accounts, impact evaluation of health programmes, access to medicines, inequalities, and health technology assessment.

Previously he has worked as a research scientist and assistant professor at the Public Health Foundation of India (PHFI), New Delhi. At PHFI, he led the project on health accounts for six Indian states. He was a Welcome Trust Post-Doctoral Fellow (2015-17). He was a visiting faculty at Dr. B. R. Ambedkar University, Delhi, JNU, and Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai.

He has led several research studies supported by the Department of Science and Technology, Government of India; WHO, International Labour Organisation (ILO). He is currently the Indian Country PI of a research grant on “Health Financing Fragmentation and Universal Health Coverage in Brazil, Colombia, Mexico and India” supported by NIHR, UK. He has several international and national publications.

Indranil is the co-editor of the Jindal Journal of Public Policy.

Linkedin profile: https://www.linkedin.com/in/indranil-mukhopadhyay-84983a50

Orcid id: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5242-2331

Chaudhry D & Mukhopadhyay I. Climate change and human health: estimating district‑level health vulnerabilities in the Indian context; Climatic Change (2023) 176:154; https://doi.org/10.1007/s10584-023-03630-0

Guin P, Kumar EL, Mukhopadhyay I. Do climatic and socioeconomic factors explain population vulnerability to malaria? Evidence from a national survey, India. Indian J Public Health; 2023;67:226-34.

Prinja S et al. (2022). What is the Out-of-Pocket Expenditure on Medicines in India? An Empirical Assessment using a Novel Methodology; Health Policy and Planning; July 2022; 00, 2022, 1–13; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/heapol/czac057

Sakthivel S et al. (2022). India health system review. New Delhi: World Health Organization, Regional Office for South-East Asia; https://apo.who.int/publications/i/item/india-health-system-review;

Mukhopadhyay I. (2022). “Untangling the Labyrinth of Health Inequities in India”; Book Review: Jesani Amar and Prashad P (2019) “Equity and Access: Health Care Studies in India”, OUP, India;Vol. 57, Issue No. 18, 30 Apr, 2022; ISSN (Print) – 0012-9976 | ISSN (Online) – 2349-8846; https://www.epw.in/journal/2022/18/book-reviews/untangling-labyrinth-health-inequities-india.html

Mukhopadhyay I. (2022). Three decades of neo-liberal health reforms in India: Implications on peoples’ health; in Saxena K B (edited). Private Sector Participation in Public Services: Health; Akar Books; New Delhi, 2022

Purkayastha P., Indranil, Richa Chintan (2020): Political Journeys in Health: Essays by and for Amit Sengupta; Left Word Publication; e-book; New Delhi

ndranil Mukhopadhyay (2019). “NITI Aayog Health Index: Wrong Symptoms and an Erroneous Diagnosis”; Social Change; 49(4) 678–685, CSD; https://doi.org/10.1177/0049085719877293

Mukhopadhyay I (2019). “National Health Policy 2015: Growth Fundamentalism Driving Universal Health Coverage Agenda?” in Qadeer I et al. (Ed). Universalising Health Care in India: From care to coverage. Aakar Books, New Delhi India. ISBN: 978-93-5002-588-8

Mukhopadhyay I and D Sinha (2019), “Painting a Picture of Ill-health” in Azad R. et al (Ed); “Quantum leap in the wrong direction”, Orient Black Swan, New Delhi, India; Feb 2019; ISBN-10: 9352876180
Email imukhopadhyay@jgu.edu.in
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