Shubham Adhikari

Research Assistant (former)
Department of Global Health and Population

Shubham graduated in 2022 with an MPH in Global Health from the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. Prior to Harvard, Shubham worked at the World Bank providing policy and implementation support to government clients in sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia in education, health, and nutrition. Originally from Nepal, Shubham is interested in health financing as well as innovative institutional arrangements in the healthcare industry. On the India project,…

Vipul Aggarwal

Policy Fellow (former)
Department of Global Health and Population

Vipul is a physician turned civil servant from India with more than 20 years of work experience. Most recently he served as the administrative head of Ayushman Bharat PM-JAY, the world’s largest public funded health assurance scheme serving 540 million beneficiaries (pmjay.gov.in). In previous assignments in Gujarat, he headed the National Health Mission, which is India’s major public health program, and also headed Procurement and Supply Chain Management for the…

Bijetri Bose, Ph.D.

Visiting Scientist (former)
Department of Global Health and Population

Bijetri obtained her Ph.D. in Economics in 2015 from the University of Washington. She has previously worked at Oberlin College, Ohio and at the University of California, Los Angeles where she focused on examining the impact of policies and social programs on education, health and welfare, particularly of girls and women, across various countries. Her research is in applied microeconomics and she is currently working on analyzing health outcomes and…

Jan Cooper, Ph.D.

Research Associate (former)
Department of Global Health and Population

Jan has studied social protection and cash transfer programs in India and in Tanzania. She focuses in particular on demand- and supply-side incentives for health promotion and women’s access to health care. With the India Health Systems Initiative, she studies the determinants and outcomes of access to effective care. Most recently, as a Postdoctoral Fellow with the Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab (J-PAL), Jan was based in New Delhi…

Katie Gao

Research Assistant (former)
Harvard College

Katie Gao is a junior at Harvard College studying Neuroscience with a secondary in Global Health and Health Policy. Having previously worked on policy-oriented projects related to health disparities and nutrition, she is interested in leveraging data to improve health systems.

Annie Haakenstad, Ph.D.

Visiting Scientist (former)
University of Washington

Annie Haakenstad completed her doctorate at Harvard in 2019.  Annie’s research focuses on financial risk protection, resource allocation, and health financing in low- and middle-income countries.  Previously, Annie worked at the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation and consulted for the World Bank, UNICEF, the UN Environment Programme, and the UN Offices at Geneva.  Annie received her Bachelors in International Affairs from the George Washington University and her Masters in…

Snipta Mallick

Student Research Assistant (former)

Snipta is pursuing double degrees in Computer Science and Cognitive Science at the University of Texas at Dallas. On the India Health Systems Project, she helps with analyses of the Odisha survey data. Previously, as Healthcare Policy Coordinator for the Roosevelt Institute, she analyzed the impact of digital health interventions on the continuity of health care for children in the foster care system and advised student-led public health campaigns nationally.…

Michelle Olakkengil

Research Assistant (former)
Global Health and Population

Michelle Olakkengil recently received her Master of Science in Global Health and Population from the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. During her studies, Michelle worked on professional projects for governments and non-profit organizations. With D-tree International, she evaluated the heterogeneity of programmatic impact of an mHealth intervention across different sub-populations of postpartum women in Zanzibar, Tanzania. Before this, Michelle served as a Policy Research Consultant for the Planning…

Elizabeth Osborn

Project Director (former)
Department of Global Health and Population

Elizabeth (“Betsy”) Osborn is Project Director of the India Health Systems Project. Previously, Betsy led multi-disciplinary research initiatives on Indonesia, India, and Malaysia at Harvard, and had a decade of service with the U.S. Agency for International Development including five years in Indonesia. Betsy has an Ed.M. in International Education Policy from the Harvard Graduate School of Education and is a current MPH 45 student in global heath here at…

Alok Ranjan

Fulbright-Nehru Visiting Scholar (former)
Department of Global Health and Population

Alok Ranjan is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences at the Indian Institute of Technology, Jodhpur. He obtained his doctorate in Public Health from Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS), Mumbai, in 2019. His research focused on measuring unmet healthcare needs in the context of the progress towards universal health coverage in India. Alok’s research interests lie in the areas of access to healthcare, financial…