Jalandhar Pradhan is working as a Professor, 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 did his postdoctoral research work from the Netherlands Interdisciplinary Demographic Institute (NIDI), The Netherlands, in the areas of 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 50 scientific research articles at international reviewed journals like Health Policy and Planning, Health Policy, Health Economics Review, PLOS ONE, International Journal for Equity in Health. He is also working as an Academic Editor to the journal of PLOS ONE and BMC Public Health. His research interests include health economics and public policy, healthcare financing, nutrition economics, poverty, inequality and human development, and health analytics.