University of Melbourne Professor Ajay Mahal is a faculty member with the Nossal Institute for Global Health, University of Melbourne. Previously, he was the Alan and Elizabeth Finkel Chair of Global Health at Monash University and was on the faculty of the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. Earlier, he was also the Principal Economist at the National Council of Applied Economic Research in New Delhi. Dr. Ajay’s research focuses on issues of health financing, service delivery and linkages in health and development. He has evaluated health system interventions in low- and middle-income countries and authored over 100 journal articles, book chapters and books.