Manoj Mohanan
Associate Professor of Public Policy

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Manoj Mohanan
Associate Professor of Public Policy
Manoj Mohanan is an applied microeconomist, focusing on health and development economics, with a background in medicine and public health. Mohanan is Associate Professor at the Sanford School of Public Policy at Duke, with secondary appointments in the Department of Economics and the Duke Global Health Institute. His research focuses on topics related to health and health care in developing countries including: performance-based contracts, measurement of provider quality and performance, social franchising, and social accountability / monitoring. He also studies the role of subjective expectations and beliefs in health care behavior.
Mohanan is currently working on a project to introduce governance interventions in the health sector using social accountability in partnership with the Government of Uttar Pradesh and the World Bank. He also leads a collaboration with the Government of India (NITI Aayog) to study the impact of India's cash transfer program for maternal and child health (PMMVY program) with the state Government of Madhya Pradesh. Several of his projects feature field experiments, policy interventions and evaluations. He is involved in research projects in India, Kenya and China. For more on ongoing and past research projects, please visit manojmohanan.com
Projects
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Impact of Social Accountability Interventions on Healthcare Delivery and Health Outcomes in U.P., India
United States
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Quality Improvement in Healthcare Workshop
United States
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Bihar Evaluation of Social Franchasing and Telemedicine (BEST) Supplement
United States, India, United Kingdom
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BEST Evaluation-Bihar Evaluation of Social Franchising and Telemedicine
India, United States, United Kingdom
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Qualitative Supplement to IMATCHINE Project
India
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Analysis of Provider Payment Reforms on Advancing China’s Health (APPROACH): An Evaluation of County Hospitals
China
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Effect of price subsidies and testing information on demand for antimalarial drugs in Kenya
Kenya
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Subjective Expectations: New methods for elicitation using interactive touchscreens and applications to decision making under uncertainty
India
Publications
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Wagner Z, Banerjee S, Mohanan M, Sood N. Does the market reward quality? Evidence from India. International Journal of Health Economics and Management. 2022 Jan 1;Varela G, Swanson K, Pasquale DK, Mohanan M, Moody JW. Visualizing COVID Restrictions: Activity Patterns Before, During, and After COVID-19 Lockdowns in Uttar Pradesh, India. Socius : Sociological Research for a Dynamic World. 2022 Jan;8:23780231221117960.
Kuppalli K, Gala P, Cherabuddi K, Kalantri SP, Mohanan M, Mukherjee B, et al. India's COVID-19 crisis: a call for international action. Lancet (London, England). 2021 Jun;397(10290):2132–5.
Mohanan M, Malani A, Krishnan K, Acharya A. Prevalence of SARS-CoV-2 in Karnataka, India. Jama. 2021 Mar;325(10):1001–3.
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