Economics Development economics

Ph.D. candidate at the Faculty of Economics, Chaing Mai University with prior experience in public policy and research, especially in Myanmar's economic development.

Dr. Irshad CV holds a PhD in Economics with specialisation in Health Economics from IIT Madras, under the supervision of Prof Umakant Dash and Prof VR Muraludharan. He earned his bachelor’s and master’s degrees in Economics from the University of Calicut. His research focuses on health economics, population health, and gerontology. His doctoral thesis, Healthy Ageing in India: A Mixed Methods Approach, is among the early works on the subject in India and introduced the country’s first multi-dimensional Healthy Ageing Index (HAI). Two key studies from his thesis were published in the Journal of Population Ageing (Springer). He also presented his extended thesis-related research at an Asian Development Bank (ADB) conference supported by the Government of Japan. In 2021, he received a research grant from the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) and IIPS Mumbai to examine social frailty among older adults. He co-edited the “Ageing and Care” section in Handbook of Ageing, Health and Public Policy (Springer).