Dr. Shankar Prinja starting off as a medical doctor and public health specialist and went on to study health economics from the London School of Economics. His main research interests involve economic evaluation of health care interventions and programs, costing of health care services, and analysing impact of health financing policies in the context of universal health coverage. He is a member of several high-level technical expert groups including the subgroups of Prime Minister’s Economic Advisory Council on “Investment in Human Resources and Infrastructure” as well as “Converging Health Care and Social Security Financing Platforms”, Technical Appraisal Committee for Health Technology Assessment Board; Vaccine Cost Effectiveness Analysis Working Group of the NTAGI (National Technical Advisory Group on Immunization), and the ICMR’s COVID-19 Taskforce on Operations Research. At the PGI Chandigarh, he has set up a Regional Resource Centre for India’s Health Technology Assessment Board, as well as an Innovation and Learning Centre for Health and Wellness Centres in Punjab.

He has authored more than 190 research papers in leading national and international peer-reviewed scientific journals. He is also an Academic Editor of the PLoS One, member of the editorial board of Pharmacoeconomics Open, and serves as guest editor of the Indian Journal of Medical Research.