I am a Post-Doctoral Research Associate at the Schaeffer Center at the University of Southern California. I have two verticals of research - in the US and in India. In the US, my current research focuses on evaluating the efficacy of Medicare Advantage (Part-C) especially as it pertains to patients of alzheimer's disease and related dementias (ADRD). In India, I am working on designing and testing scaleable interventions to improve child health (specifically improving ORS prescription rates for child diarrhea).

I completed my PhD at the Pardee RAND Graduate School in July, 2023. For my job market paper, I designed and evaluated a randomized controlled trial using the standardized patient method to identify caste and religion based discrimination in healthcare delivery among private providers in Bihar, India. Simultaneously, I worked on another large scale RCT that was aimed to identify barriers to ORS prescription for child diarrhea.

My primary areas of study are global health, health systems and health equity. I have experience using a diverse set of methodologies in these areas including RCTs, agent-based models, simulation models, and quasi-experimental methods using claims data.