Prof. Mahesh Karra

Mahesh Karra is an Alexander von Humboldt Research Fellow and Visiting Researcher at the University of Goettingen's Centre for Modern Indian Studies. He is an Associate Professor of Global Development Policy at the Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies at Boston University (BU) and Associate Director of the Human Capital Initiative at BU's Global Development Policy Center. His academic and research interests are broadly in development economics, health economics, quantitative methods, and applied demography. His research utilizes experimental and non-experimental methods to investigate the relationships between population, health, and economic development in low- and middle-income countries. He has conducted field work in Sub-Saharan Africa, South Asia, and Latin America, and his current research uses randomized controlled trials to evaluate the health and economic effects of improving access to family planning and maternal and child health services in Malawi, India, Nepal, Sri Lanka and Tanzania. He has also worked for the Population Reference Bureau and the Futures Group International and served as a consultant to the World Bank, the World Health Organization, and the Population Council.

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