Oshia Garg is a health policy and systems researcher with over three years of experience in applied research at the intersection of health systems design, health financing, governance, and the sociology of health and illness. She currently serves as a Research Associate in the Health Systems Research and Policy vertical at ACCESS Health International, where her work spans the WHO health systems building blocks, with a sustained focus on how institutional design and policy implementation shape equity, access, and financial protection in low- and middle-income countries.
Her portfolio includes technical contributions to national and global health initiatives supported by the WHO, the World Bank, NITI Aayog, and NIHR-funded research programmes. Prior to joining ACCESS Health International, she worked as a Research and Policy Trainee in the Health and Family Welfare Vertical at NITI Aayog. In this role, she was part of the core technical team for the national position paper on senior care reforms and contributed to policy work on public health management cadre reforms, occupational health reforms, and right-to-health frameworks. Her work engages with ongoing policy conversations on improving the affordability and accessibility of care in resource-constrained settings. This includes an article in The Lancet Regional Health – Southeast Asia examining strategic purchasing of oncology drugs in India, as well as a contribution on pharmaceutical financing chapter in Health Systems Financing in Low- and Middle-Income Countries (De Gruyter, 2026) for the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.
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