Deepak Behera

Deepak Kumar Behera holds a Ph.D. degree in economics from the Indian Institute of Technology Madras, India. His Ph.D. thesis is titled “Health Financing in India: A Fiscal Space Perspective”, where he tries to examine the impact of macroeconomic policies on public expenditure on healthcare and identify alternative revenue mobilisation options at the regional level to prioritise healthcare in India. His research interests include macroeconomics, public finance and policy; global economic issues, development economics; health economics and policy; research methodology, and applied econometrics.

Awards & recognition:
- 6th Global Symposium on Health Systems Research Speaker Scholarship and Health System Global (HSG) membership for two years 2020 – 2022
- 12th European Health Economics Conference Grant for the year 2018. The grant is supported by the European Health Economics Association
- 3rd International Public Policy Association - Asian Scholar Grant for the year 2017. The grant is supported by the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, National University of Singapore
- 9th International Research Conference Grant for the year 2016 by the Central Bank of Sri Lanka, Colombo