Scholars@Duke

• Background
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  Education, Training, & Certifications

  • Ph.D., Harvard University 2009
  • M.S.P.H., Harvard University 2000
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  Duke Appointment History

  • Assistant Professor in the Sanford School of Public Policy, Sanford School of Public Policy, Duke University 2011 - 2018
  • Assistant Research Professor of Global Health, Duke Global Health Institute, University Institutes and Centers 2016 - 2018
  • Assistant Research Professor of Global Health, Duke Global Health Institute, University Institutes and Centers 2011 - 2015
  • Assistant Research Professor of Economics, Economics, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences 2009 - 2013
  • Assistant Research Professor of Global Health, Duke Global Health Institute, University Institutes and Centers 2009 - 2011
• Recognition
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  In the News

  • APR 9, 2018

    Sanford School Ways&Means podcast

    Childbirth, Babies & Bonuses

  • MAR 22, 2018

    Researcher Engages with Government to Develop Social Accountability in Uttar Pradesh

  • FEB 21, 2017

    Sanford School of Public Policy

    Sanford Forum: Yes, Policymakers Still Need Solid Academic Research

  • OCT 24, 2016

    NPR

    A new health care project won awards. But did it really work?

  • OCT 10, 2016

    Mumbai Firstpost

    Bihar: Diarrhea, pneumonia kill children but parents shun life-saving facilities

  • OCT 5, 2016

    Duke-led Study: Acclaimed Program Fails To Improve Health Care For Children In Rural India

  • JUL 5, 2016

    NPR

    Manoj Mohanan: Will Brexit put a damper on the U.K.'s global generosity?

  • FEB 23, 2015

    Quartz

    Manoj Mohanan: Most rural Indian doctors don't even know how to treat diarrhea

  • FEB 16, 2015

    In Rural India, Children Receive Wrong Treatments for Deadly Ailments

  • JAN 3, 2014

    The Times of India

    Gujarat's maternal health scheme is a failure: Study

  • DEC 13, 2013

    Business Standard

    Gujarat's Chiranjeevi Yojana program fails to improve maternal health in India

  • DEC 11, 2013

    Maternal Health Program In India Failing To Deliver, Study Shows
• Expertise
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  Subject Headings

  • Accidents, Traffic
  • Clinical Competence
  • Debt
  • Disease Management
  • Economic Development
  • Economic impact analysis
  • Economics
  • Education, Medical
  • Education, Medical, Graduate
  • Evaluation Studies
  • Field experiments
  • Fluid Therapy
  • Health Personnel
  • Infant
  • Motor Vehicles
  • Patient Simulation
  • Physician's Practice Patterns
  • Pneumonia
  • Primary Health Care
  • Private Sector
  • Public Sector
  • Quality Indicators, Health Care
  • Quality of Health Care
  • Regression Analysis
  • Rural Health Services
  • Schools, Medical
  • Urban Health Services
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  Global Scholarship

  • Expertise

    • India (Country) 
    • United States of America (Country) 

  • Research

    • China (Country) 
    • India (Country) 
    • Kenya (Country) 
    • Rwanda (Country) 

  • Teaching

    • United States of America (Country) 
• Research
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  Selected Grants

  • Doctoral Dissertation Research in Economics: Female Underemployment - Job Attributes and Labor Supply Decisions awarded by  National Science Foundation 2018 - 2019
  • Innovative partnership to target antimalarial subsidies in the retail sector awarded by National Institutes of Health 2014 - 2019
  • Monitoring and Evaluation of PMMVY Program in Madhya Pradesh, India awarded by World Bank 2018
  • Developing an Interdisciplinary Graduate Curriculum in Global Health awarded by National Institutes of Health 2008 - 2012
• Publications & Artistic Works
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  Selected Publications

  • Conference Papers

    • Donato, K, Miller, G, Mohanan, M, Truskinovsky, Y, and Vera-Hernández, M. "Personality Traits and Performance Contracts: Evidence from a Field Experiment among Maternity Care Providers in India." May 2017.  Full Text
    • Maselko, J, Mohanan, M, and Kawachi, I. "RESPONDING TO ADVERSITY? QUASI-EXPERIMENTAL EVIDENCE OF DYNAMIC SOCIAL CAPITAL AND ITS RELATION TO MENTAL HEALTH." June 1, 2010.  Link to Item

  • Journal Articles

    • Kruk, ME, Gage, AD, Arsenault, C, Jordan, K, Leslie, HH, Roder-DeWan, S, Adeyi, O, Barker, P, Daelmans, B, Doubova, SV, English, M, Elorrio, EG, Guanais, F, Gureje, O, Hirschhorn, LR, Jiang, L, Kelley, E, Lemango, ET, Liljestrand, J, Malata, A, Marchant, T, Matsoso, MP, Meara, JG, Mohanan, M, Ndiaye, Y, Norheim, OF, Reddy, KS, Rowe, AK, Salomon, JA, Thapa, G, Twum-Danso, NAY, and Pate, M. "High-quality health systems in the Sustainable Development Goals era: time for a revolution." The Lancet. Global Health 6.11 (November 2018): e1196-e1252. (Review)  Full Text
    • Prudhomme O'Meara, W, Menya, D, Laktabai, J, Platt, A, Saran, I, Maffioli, E, Kipkoech, J, Mohanan, M, and Turner, EL. "Improving rational use of ACTs through diagnosis-dependent subsidies: Evidence from a cluster-randomized controlled trial in western Kenya." Plos Medicine 15.7 (July 17, 2018): e1002607-null.  Full Text
    • Mohanan, M, Miller, G, Donato, K, Truskinovsky, Y, and Vera-Hernandez, M. "Different Strokes for Different Folks: Experimental Evidence on the Effectiveness of Input and Output Incentive Contracts for Health Care Providers with Different Levels of Skills." Center for Global Development Working Paper 464 (October 11, 2017).
    • Mohanan, M, Miller, G, Donato, K, Truskinovsky, Y, and Vera-Hernandez, M. "Different Strokes for Different Folks: Experimental Evidence on the Effectiveness of Input and Output Incentive Contracts for Health Care Providers with Different Levels of Skills." Economic Research Initiatives at Duke (ERID) Working Paper 245 (May 2, 2017).
    • Mohanan, M, Giardili, S, Das, V, Rabin, TL, Raj, SS, Schwartz, JI, Seth, A, Goldhaber-Fiebert, JD, Miller, G, and Vera-Hernández, M. "Evaluation of a social franchising and telemedicine programme and the care provided for childhood diarrhoea and pneumonia, Bihar, India." Bulletin of the World Health Organization 95.5 (May 2017): 343-352E.  Full Text
    • Sherry, TB, Bauhoff, S, and Mohanan, M. "Multitasking and Heterogeneous Treatment Effects in Pay-for-Performance in Health Care: Evidence from Rwanda." American Journal of Health Economics 3.2 (May 1, 2017): 192-226.  Open Access Copy
    • Laktabai, J, Lesser, A, Platt, A, Maffioli, E, Mohanan, M, Menya, D, Prudhomme O'Meara, W, and Turner, EL. "Innovative public-private partnership to target subsidised antimalarials: a study protocol for a cluster randomised controlled trial to evaluate a community intervention in Western Kenya." Bmj Open 7.3 (March 20, 2017): e013972-null.  Full Text
    • Maffioli, E, O'Meara, WP, Turner, EL, and Mohanan, M. "Can Individuals’ Beliefs Help Us Understand Nonadherence to Malaria Test Results? Evidence from Rural Kenya." Economic Research Initiatives at Duke (ERID) Working Paper 243 (February 3, 2017).
    • Mohanan, M, Babiarz, KS, Goldhaber-Fiebert, JD, Miller, G, and Vera-Hernández, M. "Effect Of A Large-Scale Social Franchising And Telemedicine Program On Childhood Diarrhea And Pneumonia Outcomes In India." Health Affairs (Project Hope) 35.10 (October 2016): 1800-1809.  Full Text
    • Mohanan, M, Hay, K, and Mor, N. "Quality Of Health Care In India: Challenges, Priorities, And The Road Ahead." Health Affairs (Project Hope) 35.10 (October 2016): 1753-1758.  Full Text
    • Sherry, TB, Bauhoff, S, and Mohanan, M. "Multitasking and Heterogeneous Treatment Effects in Pay-for-Performance in Health Care: Evidence from Rwanda." Economic Research Initiatives at Duke (ERID) Working Paper 136 (March 1, 2016).
    • Prudhomme O'Meara, W, Mohanan, M, Laktabai, J, Lesser, A, Platt, A, Maffioli, E, Turner, EL, and Menya, D. "Assessing the independent and combined effects of subsidies for antimalarials and rapid diagnostic testing on fever management decisions in the retail sector: results from a factorial randomised trial in western Kenya." Bmj Global Health 1.2 (January 2016): e000101-null.  Full Text
    • Mohanan, M, Vera-Hernández, M, Das, V, Giardili, S, Goldhaber-Fiebert, JD, Rabin, TL, Raj, SS, Schwartz, JI, and Seth, A. "The know-do gap in quality of health care for childhood diarrhea and pneumonia in rural India." Jama Pediatrics 169.4 (April 2015): 349-357.  Full Text
    • Mohanan, M, Bauhoff, S, La Forgia, G, Babiarz, KS, Singh, K, and Miller, G. "Effect of Chiranjeevi Yojana on institutional deliveries and neonatal and maternal outcomes in Gujarat, India: A difference-in-differences analysis | Effets du programme Chiranjeevi Yojana sur les accouchements en institutions et les résultats néonatals et maternels au Gujarat, en Inde: Une analyse de l'écart des différences." Bulletin of the World Health Organization 92.3 (2014): 187-194.
    • Mohanan, M. "Causal Effects of Health Shocks on Consumption and Debt: Quasi-Experimental Evidence from Bus Accident Injuries." Review of Economics and Statistics 95.2 (May 2013): 673-681.
    • Mohanan, M. "Causal Effects of Health Shocks on Consumption and Debt: Quasi-Experimental Evidence from Bus Accident Injuries." Review of Economics and Statistics 95.2 (May 2013): 673-681.  Full Text
    • Das, J, Holla, A, Das, V, Mohanan, M, Tabak, D, and Chan, B. "In urban and rural India, a standardized patient study showed low levels of provider training and huge quality gaps." Health Aff (Millwood) 31.12 (December 2012): 2774-2784. (Review)  Full Text  Link to Item
    • Mohanan, M, and Maselko, J. "Quasi-experimental evidence on the causal effects of physical health on mental health." Int J Epidemiol 39.2 (April 2010): 487-493.  Full Text  Link to Item
    • Mahal, A, and Mohanan, M. "Growth of private medical education in India." Med Educ 40.10 (October 2006): 1009-1011.  Full Text  Link to Item
    • Mahal, A, and Mohanan, M. "Medical Education in India: Implications for access to care and its quality." Journal of Educational Planning and Administration 20.4 (2006). (Academic Article)
• Teaching & Mentoring
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  Recent Courses

  • PUBPOL 494: Honors Project: Research Independent Study 2018
  • PUBPOL 813: Quantitative Evaluation Methods 2018
  • PUBPOL 890: Advanced Special Topics in Public Policy 2018
  • PUBPOL 892: Advanced Special Topics in Public Policy 2018
  • PUBPOL 303D: Microeconomic Policy Tools 2017
• Scholarly, Clinical, & Service Activities
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  Presentations & Appearances

  • Southern Economics Association. November 1, 2013  2013
  • Triangle Health Economics Seminar. October 1, 2013  2013
  • World Bank Forum on Hospital Management, Kerala, India. July 1, 2013  2013
  • World Bank Forum on Health Insurance, Bangalore, India. May 1, 2013  2013
  • 3ie (Intl Initiative for Impact evaluation) – Delhi Seminar series. December 10, 2012  2012
  • 3ie (Intl Initiative for Impact evaluation) – Delhi Seminar series. December 10, 2012  2012
  • Health Systems research symposium. December 10, 2012  2012
  • Health Systems research symposium. December 10, 2012  2012
  • Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore. December 10, 2012  2012
  • University of Washington, Seattle (IHME). December 10, 2012  2012
  • University of Washington, Seattle (IHME). December 10, 2012  2012
  • Virginia Commonwealth University. December 10, 2012  2012
  • Virginia Commonwealth University. December 10, 2012  2012
  • Yale University - Health Policy Colloquium. December 10, 2012  2012
  • Yale University - Health Policy Colloquium. December 10, 2012  2012
  • Causal Effects of Health Shocks. November 4, 2011  2011
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  Outreach & Engaged Scholarship

  • Duke Global Health Outreach. Impact of Social Accountability Interventions on Healthcare Delivery and Health Outcomes in U.P., India. May 2015  2015
  • Duke Global Health Outreach. Bihar Evaluation of Social Franchasing and Telemedicine (BEST) Supplement. COHESIVE-India. January 2015  2015
  • Duke Global Health Outreach. BEST Evaluation-Bihar Evaluation of Social Franchising and Telemedicine. June 2011  2011
  • Duke Global Health Outreach. Qualitative Supplement to IMATCHINE Project. July 2010  2010
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  Service to the Profession

  • Journal of Development Economics; Journal of Development Studies; PLOS-One, BMJ-Open. December 10, 2012  2012
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  Service to Duke

  • 2 MPP prospectus committees. December 10, 2012  2012
  • PhD Admissions Committee. December 10, 2012  2012

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