MrAmrit Banstola

Amrit Banstola is a Researcher based in the Health Economics Research Group (HERG) within the Department of Health Sciences at Brunel University London. He primarily works for the NIHR ARC Northwest London project, led by Imperial College London, where he holds the position of Honorary Research Associate. Within this project, Amrit leads and contributes to research endeavours in health economics and public health alongside other HERG health economists and academic staff from Imperial College's Department of Primary Care and Public Health. Additionally, Amrit provides teaching support for Brunel University’s Global Public Health courses, particularly the MSc in Public Health and Health Promotion, and contributes to HERG's Short courses.

Before joining Brunel, Amrit was working on the NIHR Global Health Research Group on Nepal Injury Research supporting health economics across all projects at the University of the West of England, Bristol. Amrit has a particular research interest in health economics aspects of public health interventions.

Amrit is an Associate Editor in Frontiers in Public Health (Health Economics) and has reviewed several international peer-reviewed journals, including The Lancet Global Health, the BMJ, European Journal of Public Health, BMC Health Services Research, Systematic Reviews, and SAGE Open among others.

Amrit is a member of the International Health Economics Association (iHEA) and the UK Health Economists' Study Group (HESG). Amrit is also a Global Burden of Disease Health Financing Collaborator, contributing to the longstanding and evolving health financing research at the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME).​