Ravi Duggal

Ravi Duggal, based in Mumbai, is a Sociologist and presently works as Country Coordinator with the International Budget Partnership, an international NGO based in Washington DC. The IBP works across the world on promoting budget transparency and accountability through research, trainings and advocacy. Prior to this, he was the coordinator of CEHAT (Centre for Enquiry into Health and Allied Themes) which is the Research Centre of Anusandhan Trust.

His current areas of interest include governance, accountability and budgets, health policy and financing, womens’ health issues, private health sector regulation, and health insurance and universal access to healthcare, and health and human rights. In a previous position, he conducted research for the Foundation of Research in Community Health and established ‘health economics’ as an area of research in India.

He is presently the Vice President of the Health Economics Association of India. He has also worked with SWISSAID an NGO donor agency which supports peoples’ organisations on asserting their rights. He has also worked as a consultant in health planning, policy and financing with the national Ministry of Health in Delhi, and on governance and budget issues with Action Aid International across Asia. He is interested in creating a universal access health care system for India.