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Dr. Radhika Jain is an Assistant Professor of Health Economics at University College London's Global Business School for Health. She is a health and development economist specializing in health policy research in lower-income countries, with a particular focus on India. Her work examines healthcare markets, the role of the private sector, socioeconomic and gender inequality in health, and health policy design.
Her research primarily investigates government health insurance for low-income households in India, including strategic behavior by private hospitals that undermines insurance effectiveness, gender inequality in insurance utilization, and the effects of increasing patient awareness of insurance entitlements. Current research interests include strategies to improve hospital compliance, encouraging female usage of health benefits, urbanization and health, and hospital markets in low- and middle-income countries.
Dr. Jain's work has been recognized with the International Health Economics Association (IHEA) 2021 Adam Wagstaff Award for outstanding research on healthcare financing in lower-income countries. Her research has been supported by grants from Harvard University, the Weiss Family Fund, and the Jameel Poverty Action Lab (JPAL), and has received coverage from major media outlets including the BBC, Financial Times, and IndiaSpend.
- Adam Wagstaff Award from International Health Economics Association (IHEA) 2021
- Research featured in The Lancet Global Health
- Media coverage in BBC, Financial Times, VoxDev, and IndiaSpend
- Cited in national policy documents on health insurance
Dr. Jain is an affiliate of the UCL Center for Global Health Economics and an invited researcher at J-PAL South Asia. Her recent work includes a two-part Series on primary healthcare services in low- and middle-income country cities published in The Lancet Global Health, which examines how urban healthcare markets with many providers but variable quality require different policy approaches than rural settings.
