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Samik Chowdhury is an Assistant Professor at the Institute of Economic Growth, Delhi. His primary area of research is health policy in India with particular focus on health equity, financing, universal health coverage and urban health. In addition, he has worked on the health systems of Nepal and Bhutan in collaboration with South-East Asian Regional Office (SEARO), WHO. His other areas of interest include governance and urban poverty. He has been previously associated with the Birla Institute of Technology and Science (BITS), Pilani, and the National Institute of Public Finance and Policy (NIPFP), New Delhi. He holds a Ph.D. in Economics from Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi.