Mukesh is currently a second year Ph.D. student in Health Policy and Management at the University of North Carolina Gilling’s School of Global Public Health minoring in health economics. Mukesh is keenly interested in exploring the economics of health care access and health care quality in low and middle-income countries.

Prior to joining the Ph.D. program, Mukesh worked in diverse roles within the government health system of Nepal, ranging from a paramedical worker in a primary health care facility to a Senior Public Health Officer in the Department of Health Services. Currently, he is working on rural residency program in the US, workplace violence in healthcare settings, and health insurance in low income countries.