Maninder Pal Singh is a health economist working as a Research Assistant at the Department of Global Health at LSHTM. Before joining LSHTM, he was leading India’s first national health services costing study and was involved in evidence-based policy making for India’s national health insurance scheme. Maninder’s current research is focused on the economic impact of tuberculosis in low-and middle-income countries including the catastrophic health expenditure by TB patients, costing and economic evaluation of TB interventions such as the introduction of new diagnostic tests, screening strategies and newer drug regimens for TB.