Pooja Kansra is presently working as an Associate Professor of Economics at Mittal School of Business, Lovely Professional University, Phagwara (India). She has teaching experience of fourteen plus years. Her research areas include health economics, labour economics, gender economics, insurance and the informal sector. She is a lifetime member of the Indian Economic Association. She is an avid researcher and has presented papers at national and international conferences. She has to her credit various research papers published in Scopus Indexed Journals, including Economic and Political Weekly (EPW) and the Journal of Health Management (Sage Publications). Global Business Review (Sage Publications), International Journal of Diabetes in Developing Countries (Springer Publications), Health and Population: Perspectives and Issues (MOHFW), etc. She has published several books on the various aspects of health economics and COVID-19. She was granted three copyrights by the Government of India. She is an editorial board member/reviewer in several national and international journals.