Dr. Shankar Prinja is currently working as an Executive Director at National Health Authority (NHA) in Delhi, India. He completed his graduation from Gandhi Medical College. Dr. Shankar Prinja is an Additional Professor of Health Economics at the PGIMER School of Public Health, Chandigarh, India. He is a medical doctor with a specialization in community medicine/ public health. Subsequently, he trained in health economics at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine and London School of Economics. His main research interests involve economic evaluation of health care interventions and programs, costing of health care services, and analyzing the impact of health financing policies in the context of universal health coverage.