Prof. Manoj Mohanan

Associate Professor of Public Policy, Sanford School of Public Policy, Duke University

Manoj Mohanan is Associate Professor at Sanford School of Public Policy at Duke University. He also holds secondary appointments in the Department of Economics and the Global Health Institute and is also a Sr Visiting Fellow at IDFC Institute in Mumbai, India. As an applied microeconomist, he works on topics related to the economics of health and development. His research focuses on topics including: performance-based contracts, measurement of provider quality and performance, social franchising, and social accountability/monitoring. Prof. Mohanan is PI on a large NIH-funded project to create a health panel dataset in India and is co-investigator on projects to study the quality of care for childhood diarrhea. Manoj also studies the role of subjective expectations in healthcare behavior and how information structures within social networks influence participation in collective action. His past research has included evaluations of policies and programs in the health sector in India and in other countries such as Rwanda and Kenya. Manoj received his undergraduate degree in medicine from Grant Medical College, Mumbai. He holds a master's degree in public health from Harvard Chan School of Public Health and a Ph.D. in Health Policy (Economics) from Harvard University.