Mandar Bodas

Mandar Bodas, PhD, MHA, has been professorial lecturer and a research scientist at the Mullan Institute at the Milken Institute School of Public Health at George Washington University since 2020. His current work focuses on the geographic variation in the workforce serving pregnant Medicaid beneficiaries, exploring factors associated with disparities in primary care outcomes, analyzing the workforce providing reproductive services to Medicaid beneficiaries, and the relationship between managed care contracting policies and postpartum utilization. His research interests broadly include examining how federal and state-level health policies affect the health of disadvantaged populations. Before joining the George Washington University, Mandar was a CDC Fellow at the Office of Health Policy in the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation in the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. He received his PhD in health care policy and research from Virginia Commonwealth University. He holds a master’s in hospital administration from the Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai, India.