Onur Altındağ is an Assistant Professor of Economics at Bentley University since 2017. He received his Ph.D. from City University of New York and held a post-doctoral position at the Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies prior to joining Bentley. His research interests lie primarily at the intersection of issues related to health, demography and migration. He is also part of a team that designs the cash assistance program for the forcibly displaced Syrian population in Lebanon in collaboration with the UNHCR. A significant part of his current research agenda is led by this field work.