Souvik Banerjee

Assistant Professor
banerjee.souvik@iitb.ac.in
(+022) 2576-6370
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Education:
  • PhD in Economics | University at Albany: SUNY, Albany, NY, USA (2009-2014)
  • MA in Economics | Jawaharlal Nehru University, Delhi, India (2007-2009)
  • BS in Economics | Presidency (College) University, Kolkata, India (2004-2007)
Research Interests:
  • Health Economics
  • Applied Econometrics
  • Health Policy
  • Health Services Research
  • Labour Economics
  • Pharmaceutical Health Outcomes Research
Professional Affiliations:
  • 2020- : Assistant Professor, Department of Economics, IIT Bombay, India
  • 2024- : Invited Researcher, J-PAL South Asia
  • 2024- : Associate Faculty, Sunita Sanghi Centre of Aging and Neurodegenerative Diseases (SCAN), IIT Bombay, India
  • Nov-Dec 2023 : Visiting Scientist, Economics and Planning Unit, Indian Statistical Institute (ISI) Delhi, India
  • 2021- : Associate Faculty, Koita Centre for Digital Health (KCDH), IIT Bombay, India
  • 2020 : Consultant, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA; Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH
  • 2019-2020 : Research Scientist & Statistician, Health Policy Research Center, The Mongan Institute, Department of Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA
  • 2019 : Research Scientist, Disparities Research Unit, The Mongan Institute, Department of Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA
  • 2016-2018 : Assistant Professor (Research track), Section of General Internal Medicine, Department of Medicine, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, MA
  • 2015 : Summer Associate, Pfizer Inc., New York City, NY
  • 2014-2016 : UW-Pfizer Senior Post-Doctoral Fellow, The Comparative Health Outcomes, Policy, and Economics (CHOICE) Institute, Department of Pharmacy, University of Washington, Seattle, WA

Publications:

  1. Kats DJ, Donelan K, Banerjee S, de Graaf G, Skladzien E, Hooper BT, Mordi R, Mykhailenko T, Buckley F, Santoro SL, Patsiogiannis V, Krell K, Haugen K, Skotko BG. Results of inaugural international Down Syndrome Societal Services and Supports survey. Genet Med. 2024 May; 26(5):101114.
    https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gim.2024.101114. (Impact factor: 8.8)
  2. Bartels S., Aschbrenner, KA, Pratt, SI, Zubkoff L, Jue K, Williams G, Godfrey MM, Cohen MJ, Banerjee S, Xie H, Wolfe R, Naslund JA, Bond GR. Virtual Learning Collaborative Compared to Technical Assistance as a Strategy for Implementing Health Promotion in Routine Mental Health Settings: A Hybrid Type 3 Cluster Randomized Trial. Administration and Policy in Mental Health and Mental Health Services Research. 2022; 49(6):1031-1046.
    https://doi.org/10.1007/s10488-022-01215-0 (Impact factor: 2.6)
  3. Banerjee S, Paasche-Orlow M, McCormick D, Lin M, Hanchate A. Readmissions Performance and Penalty Experience of Safety-Net Hospitals Under Medicare’s Hospital Readmissions Reduction Program. BMC Health Serv Res. 2022; 22, 338.
    https://doi.org/10.1186/s12913-022-07741-9 (Impact factor: 2.8)
  4. Aschbrenner KA, Mueller NM, Banerjee S, & Bartels SJ. Applying an equity lens to characterizing the process and reasons for an adaptation to an evidenced-based practice. Implementation Research and Practice. 2021.
    https://doi.org/10.1177/26334895211017252 (Impact factor: 3.3)
  5. Banerjee S, Basu A. Estimating Endogenous Treatment Effects Using Latent Factor Models with and without Instrumental Variables. Econometrics. 2021; 9(1):14.
    https://doi.org/10.3390/econometrics9010014 (Impact factor: 1.5)

    6. Featured paper in the special issue “Health Econometrics” in the journal Econometrics.

  6. Nakash, O., Cruz-Gonzalez, M., Lincoln, A.K., Banerjee, S., Alegría, M. 2021. Similarities in client-clinician perceptions of subjective social status and its association to similarities in the quality of working alliance and client anxiety symptoms. Psychotherapy Research,
    DOI:https://doi.org/10.1080/10503307.2021.1900618 (Impact factor: 3.9)
  7. Banerjee, S., Paasche-Orlow, M.K., McCormick, D., Lin, M., Hanchate, A.D. Association between Medicare’s Hospital Readmission Reduction Program and readmission rates across hospitals by medicare bed share. BMC Health Services Research . 2021; 21, 248.
    https://doi.org/10.1186/s12913-021-06253-2 (Impact factor: 2.8)
  8. Aschbrenner KA, Bond GR, Pratt SI, Jue K, Williams G, Banerjee S, Bartels SJ. Evaluating Agency-led adaptions to an evidence-based lifestyle intervention for adults with serious mental illness. Implementation Research and Practice. 2020; 1: 1-11.
    https://doi.org/10.1177/2633489520943200. (Impact factor: 3.3)
  9. Falgas-Bague I, Wang Y, Banerjee S, Ali N, DiMarzio K, Vidal DP, Alegria M. Predictors of Adherence to Treatment in Behavioral Health Therapy for Latino Immigrants: The Importance of Trust . Frontiers in Psychiatry. 2019; 10(817):1-11.
    https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyt.2019.00817. (Impact factor: 4.7)
  10. Banerjee S, McCormick D, Paasche-Orlow M, Lin M, Hanchate A. Association Between Degree of Exposure to the Hospital Value-Based Purchasing Program and Condition-Specific Mortality: Experience from the First Five Years of Medicare’s Pay-for-Performance Program. BMC Health Services Research. 2019; 19(1):921.
    https://doi.org/10.1186/s12913-019-4562-7. (Impact factor: 2.8)
  11. Hanchate A, Paasche-Orlow M, Baker WE, Lin M, Banerjee S, Feldman J. Association of Race/Ethnicity With Emergency Department Destination of Emergency Medical Services Transport. JAMA Network Open. 2019; 2(9): e1910816.
    https://doi.org/doi:10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2019.10816. (Impact factor: 13.8)
  12. Hanchate A, Dyer S, Paasche-Orlow M, Banerjee S, Baker WE, Lin M, Xue WD, Feldman J. Disparities in Emergency Department Visits among Co-located Racial/Ethnic Medicare Enrollees. Annals of Emergency Medicine. 2019 Mar;73(3):225-235.
    https://doi.org/doi: 10.1016/j.annemergmed.2018.09.007 (Impact factor: 6.2)
  13. Mandal B, Bhattacharjee P, Banerjee S. Autonomy-Induced Preference, Budget Reallocation, and Child Health. Eurasian Economic Review. 2018; 8(3): 485–497.
    https://doi.org/10.1007/s40822-018-0091-7 (Impact factor: 3.4)
  14. Banerjee S, Roland CL, Willke R, Mardekian J, Garrison LP. Prevalence of and Comorbid Health Conditions Associated With Pediatric Prescription Opioid Use in the US. Journal of Pain & Palliative Care Pharmacotherapy. 2017 Sep - Dec; 31(3-4):218-227.
    https://doi.org/10.1080/15360288.2017.1407860 (Impact factor: 1.1)
  15. Banerjee S, Garrison LP, Flum DR, Arterburn DE. Cost and Health Care Utilization Implications of Bariatric Surgery Versus Intensive Lifestyle and Medical Intervention for Type 2 Diabetes. Obesity (Silver Spring). 2017 Sep; 25(9):1499-1508. PMID: 28722299.
    https://doi.org/10.1002/oby.21927 (Impact factor: 6.9)
  16. Banerjee S, Garrison LP, Danel A, Ochoa Gautier JB, Flum DR. Effects of arginine-based immunonutrition on inpatient total costs and hospitalization outcomes for patients undergoing colorectal surgery. Nutrition. 2017 Oct; 42:106-113. PMID: 28734748.
    https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nut.2017.06.002 (Impact factor: 4.4)
  17. Banerjee S, Chatterji P, Lahiri K. Effects of Psychiatric Disorders on Labor Market Outcomes: A Latent Variable Approach Using Multiple Clinical Indicators. Health Economics. 2017 Feb; 26(2):184-205.
    https://doi.org/10.1002/hec.3286 (Impact factor: 3.1)
  18. Banerjee S, Chatterji P, Lahiri K. Identifying the mechanisms for workplace burden of psychiatric illness. Medical Care. 2014 Feb; 52(2):112-20.
    https://doi.org/doi: 10.1097/MLR.0000000000000040 (Impact factor: 3.0)
    Undergraduate

  • IIT Bombay: Principles of Economics, Intermediate Macroeconomics II, Econometrics I, Econometrics I Lab, Economics of Health Care

    • Postgraduate

  • IIT Bombay: Applied Econometrics (PhD)
  • SUNY Albany: Economic Analysis for Health Policy and Management (MA)
  • Advancing Research Methods in Causal Inference Using Latent Factor Models (PI: Souvik Banerjee) (2023-2026) (Rs. 6,00,000) Mathematical Research Impact Centric Support (MATRICS), Science and Engineering Research Board (SERB)
  • Diseases & Interventions Modelling to Action Group (DIMAG): Neglected Tropical Diseases (Disease group PI: Souvik Banerjee) (2022-2024 ) (Rs. 1,26,59,338) Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation (BMGF)
  • Assessing Quality of Cancer Care in India using Electronic Medical Records: A Pilot Study (PI: Souvik Banerjee) (2022- ) (Rs. 29,78,500) Koita Centre for Digital Health (KCDH), IIT Bombay
  • The Impact of Medicaid Plans on Access to and Quality of SUD Treatment (PI: Alegria) (2018-2021) ($1,578,938) National Institutes of Health (NIH)/ National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA)
  • Peer Support And Mobile Technology Targeting Cardiometabolic Risk Reduction In Young Adults With SMI (PI: Aschbrenner) (2016-2020) ($1,930,642) National Institutes of Health (NIH)/ National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH)
  • Racial and Ethnic Health Disparities Due to Ambulance Diversion (PI: Hanchate/Feldman) (2016-2019) ($1,978,661) National Institutes of Health (NIH)/ National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI)
  • National Estimates for Inpatient Care, Outcomes & Hospital Effect among Hispanics (PI: Hanchate) (2013-2019) ($2,161,624) National Institutes of Health (NIH)/ National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities (NIMHD)
  • Unintended Consequences: Medicare Performance Programs and Health Disparities (PI: Hanchate) (2016-2018) ($1,608,349) National Institutes of Health (NIH)/ National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities (NIMHD)
  • Decomposing Racial/Ethnic Disparities in Health (PI: Lahiri) (2009-2013) ($947,893) National Institutes of Health (NIH)/ National Centre on Minority Health and Health Disparities (NCMHD)
  • Research Excellence Award instituted by the class of 1973, IIT Bombay
  • Young Faculty Award, IIT Bombay (2020-23)
  • Travel grant, Ifo/CESifo Conference on Empirical Health Economics, Munich, Germany (2013)
  • Travel grant, Annual Health Econometrics Workshop, Chapel Hill, NC (2013)
  • Travel grant, Annual Health Econometrics Workshop, New York City, NY (2012)
  • Graduate Scholarship, Department of Economics, SUNY Albany, NY (2009-2011)
  • Graduated with Honours (First class), Jawaharlal Nehru University, Delhi
  • Graduated with Honours (First class), Presidency (College) University, Kolkata

The B.E. Journal of Theoretical Economics, Letters in Spatial and Resource Sciences

Programming Languages: R, GAUSS, BASIC. Other econometric packages used: Eviews, Shazam.

Hindi (Native), English (Fluent), French (Elementary)