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Vice-President for Research and Policy, Public Health Foundation

of India
Professor Ramanan Laxminarayan has overseen the growth of a research division from 80 to over 700

technical and research staff between 2011 and 2014 at PHFI. In 2012, Laxminarayan established the

Immunization Technical Support Unit that supports the immunization program of the Ministry of Health and

Family Welfare of the Government of India.

Laxminarayan is an economist and epidemiologist by training. His research work deals with the integration

of epidemiological models of infectious diseases and drug resistance into the economic analysis of public

health problems. He has worked to improve the understanding of antibiotic resistance as a problem of

managing a shared global resource.

He is a series editor of the Disease Control Priorities for Developing Countries, 3rd edition. He has

served on a number of advisory committees at the World Health Organization, Centres for Disease

Control and Prevention, and the US National Academies of Science/Institute of Medicine. In 2003-04, he

served on the Institute of Medicine Committee on the Economics of Anti-malarial Drugs and subsequently

helped create the Affordable Medicines Facility for malaria, a novel financing mechanism for antimalarials.

Laxminarayan also directs the Center for Disease Dynamics, Economics & Policy in Washington DC, and

is a Research Scholar and Lecturer at Princeton University.