Sameer Nair-Desai is a researcher in economic and health policy at Brown and Harvard Universities, with Ashish Jha. His research has been published in the NBER, VoxEU, Global Epidemics, Economics of Disasters and Climate Change and Oxford Economic Papers (accepted for publication). In 2020, he received dual undergraduate degrees in Economics and International Relations, Global Business from the USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences.