Kheya Melo Furtado
Master of Public Health, Ph.D. Health Sciences
Kheya is Associate Professor of Healthcare Management at the Goa Institute of Management, India. She is an Associate of the Lakshmi Mittal and Family South Asia Institute at Harvard University, Cambridge. She was awarded the Bajaj Visiting Research Postdoctoral Fellowship at Harvard University, Cambridge, in Spring 2023. Her areas of research, consultancy and teaching are in Health Systems Financing and Public Health. She is a Fellow of the Lancet Citizens’ Commission on Reimagining India’s Health System for Universal Health Coverage. Her recent research focusses on policy and implementation assessments of India’s national government-financed insurance scheme, the Ayushman Bharat- Pradhan Mantri Jan Arogya Yojana (PMJAY) and state-specific health protection schemes. She has secured projects as a Principal Investigator from the World Health Organization and the Harvard School of Public Health.
Prior to her academic position at GIM, she served at the Health Division of the NITI Aayog, the policy think-tank of the Government of India, New Delhi, where she implemented key projects such as the NITI Health Index for ranking States & UTs on their performance in Health; drafting of the Health Chapter of the Three- Year Action Agenda for Government of India 2017-18 to 2019-20 and the NITI District hospital index for monitoring the performance of public hospitals. She also contributed policy inputs on key national health schemes and initiatives.
Her doctoral research was conducted on private sector engagement for disease surveillance in mixed health systems under the INSPIRE Fellowship award of the Department of Science and Technology, Government of India.
