Jalandhar Pradhan is working as a Professor in Health Economics in the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, National Institute of Technology (NIT) Rourkela, Odisha, India. He received his PhD in Population Studies from International Institute for Population Sciences (IIPS), Mumbai, India. He pursued his postdoctoral research work from the Netherlands Interdisciplinary Demographic Institute (NIDI), The Netherlands, in healthcare financing. Presently, he is leading a Centre of Excellence on Public Health Nutrition at NIT Rourkela in collaboration with UNICEF. He has published more than 70 scientific research articles at the international reviewed journals like Lancet, Lancet Public Health, Health Policy and Planning, Health Policy, Health Economics Review, PLOS ONE, BMC Public Health, BMC Geriatrics, and International Journal for Equity in Health. Additionally, he has also published a book titled ‘Child Health and Well-being in India: Equity vs Efficiency’. With his profound research experience, he was nominated as a Member of the World Health Organization (WHO) Scientific Research Group (SRG) on Equity Analysis and Research at the Department of Ethics, Equity, Trade and Human Rights, Geneva. Under his guidance, 10 students have successfully completed their PhDs, and
he is currently mentoring 11 more aspiring scholars. He has also been involved in the study design of large scale national level surveys like Indian Demographic Health Survey, Coverage Evaluation Survey, District Level Household Survey, World Health Survey (WHS), Study on Global Ageing and Adult Health (SAGE). He is in the editorial board of journals like PLOS ONE, BMC Public Health, Journal of Health, Population and Nutrition, Demography India and Discover Public Health. His research interests include health economics and public policy, nutrition economics, climate change and health, economic impact of non-communicable diseases, ageing and health, maternal and child health, healthcare financing, and health analytics.