Post Doctoral Training:  Center for Tobacco Control Research and Education, University of California San Francisco from July 2006 – April 2008.

Ph.D. (Economics): Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research, Mumbai, India, 2006

MA (Economics): University of Hyderabad, Hyderabad, India, 2001

Director, International Tobacco Control Research, American Cancer Society, Atlanta, GA, 2009-2011

Visiting Senior Research Scientist, Institute for Health Research and Policy, University of Illinois at Chicago, IL, 2008 – 2009

John Rijo M, Hadii M. Mammudu, Alex C. Liber “Socio-economic implications of tobacco use in Ghana”, Nicotine and Tobacco Research, 2012 (In Press)

Prabhat Jha, Emmanuel Guindon, Renu Joseph, Arindam Nandi, Rijo M John, Kavita Rao, Frank J. Chaloupka, Jagdish Kaur, Prakash C. Gupta, M. Govinda Rao. A rational taxation system of bidis and cigarettes to reduce smoking deaths in India. Economic and Political Weekly, Vol. 46 No.42, Pp 44-51, October 2011.

John Rijo M, Hana Ross “Crowding out Effect of Tobacco Expenditure and its Implications for Poverty in Cambodia”, Epub: Tobacco Control, 2011 doi:10.1136/tc.2010.042598.  

John Rijo M, Hai-Yen Sung, Wendy Max, Hana Ross, “Counting 15 Million More Poor in India, Thanks to Tobacco”, Tobacco Control, Vol. 20, No. 5, Pp 349-352, Aug 2011.

John Rijo M, R. Kavitha Rao, M. Govinda Rao et al. “The Economics of Tobacco and Tobacco Taxation in India” Paris: International Union Against Tuberculosis and Lung Diseases, 2010.

John Rijo M, Hai-Yen Sung, and Wendy Max, “Economic Cost of Tobacco use in India, 2004” Tobacco Control, Vol. 18, No. 2, Pp 138-43, 2009

John Rijo M, “Price Elasticity Estimates for Tobacco Products in India” Health Policy and Planning, Vol. 23 No. 3, Pp 200-9, 2008.

John Rijo M, “Crowding-out Effect of Tobacco Expenditure and Its Implications on Household Resource Allocation in India” Social Science and Medicine, Vol. 66 No.6, Pp 1356-67, 2008

John Rijo M and Stanton Glantz, “It is Time to Make Smokefree Environments Work in India”, Indian Journal of Medical Research, Vol. 125 No.5, Pp 599-603, May 2007

John Rijo M, “Poverty Reduction in 1990s: A Comparison of India and China”, China Agricultural Economic Review, Vol.4, No. 1 Pp 119-130, June 2006

John Rijo M, “Financial Sector Reforms and Volatility in Indian Stock Market”, Indian Journal of Economics, Vol. 86 Part 4, No. 343, Pp 495-502, April 2006  

John Rijo M, “Household’s Tobacco Consumption Decisions: Evidence from India”, Journal of South Asian Development, Vol. 1  No.1 Pp 101-126, Januray 2006

John Rijo M and Rohit Mutatkar, “Statewise Estimates of Poverty for Religious Groups In India”, Economic and Political Weekly, Vol. 40 No.13, Pp 1337-1344, March 2005

John Rijo M, "Tobacco Consumption Patterns and Its Health Implications in India". Health Policy, Vol. 71 No.2, Pp 213-222, Feb 2005.

John Rijo M, “Ban on Tobacco: How Useful?” Economic and Political Weekly, Vol. 39 No 22 May 29, 2004

Economics of Tobacco control

Health Policy

Poverty and Development Studies

Applied Econometrics (Time series and cross sectional methods), Demand Analysis, Taxation, Economic Cost Estimation, Health Policy Analysis, Outcomes Research, Analysis of Household Surveys, and Development Economics.