Jigyasa Sharma is a Health Economist at the World Bank in the Health, Nutrition and Population Global Practice. She joined the World Bank in September 2019 in the Human Development Chief Economist Office, working primarily on the Service Delivery Indicators Survey program. Her areas of expertise include health systems strengthening, and measurement of health system quality and primary care performance. A population health and health system researcher, she has coauthored dozens of journal articles and reports on health system quality and measurement of quality of care, contributed to the Lancet Global Health Commission for High Quality Health Systems and worked as a consultant for the Department of Reproductive Health and Research at the World Health Organization.
Jigyasa has an ScD in Global Health and Population from Harvard University and MSc. In Epidemiology and Biostatistics from McGill University.