Nayantara Biswas on Demand- and Supply-Side Interventions in India's Maternal Health Policy

Our sixth scholar in the series is Nayantara Biswas is a postdoctoral research fellow at the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center. She received her Ph.D. in economics from Clark University. Her research focuses on health equity impact evaluations of small-scale interventions and large-scale public policies. We spoke about dissertation titled, The Impact of Social Policies on Reproductive Health, Maternal Employment, and Child Health: Evidence from India . We talked about demand side versus supply side policy interventions in public health, India's maternal health policy landscape, the ASHA workers program, variation across states in policy impact and much more. Recorded August 28th, 2025. Read a full transcript enhanced with helpful links. Connect with Ideas of India

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Nayantara Biswas on Demand- and Supply-Side Interventions in India's Maternal Health Policy is an episode from Ideas of India by Shruti Rajagopalan.

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This episode was published on Nov 20, 2025.

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