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Pragya Bhuwania is a postdoctoral researcher at the WORLD Policy Analysis Center based at the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health. She works on estimating the causal effects of laws, policies, and programmatic interventions on women and children in developing countries. Her research interest lies at the intersection of applied microeconomics, health, gender, and development.

Previously, she was a Maternal and Child Health Equity (MACHEquity) Fellow, jointly held at McGill Institute for Health & Social Policy and IIM Bangalore, where she extensively worked on impact evaluations of national- and state-level policies in India. She received her PhD in Health Policy and Management from UCLA, MSc in Statistics from the University of Oxford, and BA in Economics from Delhi University.