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Arindam Nandi is a researcher (Associate II) at the Population Council, and a visiting fellow at One Health Trust (formerly known as Center for Disease Dynamics, Economics & Policy). His research covers several disciplines including health economics, healthy policy, and development economics. His current work focuses on education and health, including the relationship between early life conditions and schooling outcomes, long-term and inter-generational benefits of education, and the interaction between socioeconomic factors, health, schooling, and cognitive development.  His recent research has focused on the economics of healthy aging in the United States and globally, and the economic value of vaccines, including their long-term health, cognitive, and schooling benefits, and reductions in antimicrobial resistance in low- and middle-income countries. He has jointly led a large research study of cost, cost-effectiveness, and public health financing mechanisms for reproductive and child health, family planning, tuberculosis control, and childhood vaccination in India. He is also involved in the world’s largest randomized trial study of the impact of a physical activity-based development program on health and well-being of 20,000 Indian adolescents. In the recent past, he has jointly led the largest ever field study of the cost of delivering routine vaccination in seven Indian states. He has published the first-ever longitudinal studies linking nutritional supplementation and breastfeeding in early life with reproductive health, schooling, and labor market outcomes of Indian adolescents and adults. He has also published several modeling studies of the health and economic benefits of public health interventions in India, including water and sanitation, increased educational attainment of girls, and a home-based neonatal care package. His past research involved the political economy of gender in India and the US. His work has been covered by several media outlets and cited by others. In the past, he has been the Associate Director of Research of Tata Centre for Development at the University of Chicago, and a visiting scholar at the Public Health Foundation of India. He has also worked with the World Bank on poverty reduction and economic management in India, and with the University of California Global Health Institute. He received his Ph.D. in Economics from the University of California, Riverside.