Maya Chandrasekaran | Presidential Fellow and Program Director
Social Science Research Council

Maya Chandrasekaran is an applied economist who specializes in impact evaluations, global health, and ethical and effective survey-based research. She is the current director of the Mercury Project, a consortium of 18 research teams studying vaccine access and uptake, at the Social Science Research Council. Her other research interests are in gendered impacts of energy and water access in in low- and middle- income countries and especially in sub-Saharan Africa. Her work has appeared in Energy Economics, Environmental Research Letters, and the Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Global Public Health.