Sarang Deo

Professor of Operations Management; Deputy Dean of Faculty and Research; Executive Director of Max Institute of Healthcare Management, Indian School of Business, India

Biography

Sarang Deo is a Professor of Operations Management at the Indian School of Business, where he also serves as the Deputy Dean for Faculty and research and as the Executive Director of the Max Institute of Healthcare Management. He obtained his doctorate degree from the Anderson School of Management at the University of California, Los Angeles, and a Master of Business Administration from the Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad.

His primary area of research is healthcare delivery systems. He is interested in investigating the impact of operations decisions on population-level health outcomes. Some of the healthcare contexts that he has studied include the influenza vaccine supply chain and the phenomenon of ambulance diversion in the United States, HIV early infant diagnosis networks in sub-Saharan Africa, and formal and informal pathways for TB diagnosis in India.

His research has been funded by the United States National Science Foundation, Grand Challenges Canada, the Indian Council for Medical Research, and the  Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. He also serves on the editorial boards of leading academic journals in operations management and global health, on the advisory and executive boards of for-profit and non-profit organizations, and on government committees at the state and central levels. Prior to joining the Indian School of Business, he was an Assistant Professor at the Kellogg School of Management.