International Institute for Population Sciences
Deemed University (An Autonomous Organization of Ministry of Health & Family Welfare, Government of India)

• Technical Specialist, International Center for Research on Women -Asia Regional Office- (ICRW), New Delhi from April 2015 to 12th October, 2015
• Monitoring and Evaluation Coordinator, Save the Children India, New Delhi from August 2014 to March 2015
• Consultant, United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) New Delhi, India from July, 2012 to July 2014
• Senior Research Officer/Research officer, District Level Households and Facility Survey (DLHS-3) at IIPS, Mumbai from January 2008 to December 2008

• Population ageing, Projections, Survey Research Methods,
• Impact evaluation, Adolescents and youth, Maternal and child
• health, and Gender Issues

• Member Early Career Taskforce, IUSSP
• Lifetime member of Indian Association for the study of Population (IASP)
• Member of International Union for Scientific Study of Population (IUSSP)
• Member of Population Association of America (PAA), USA. 2014
• Student membership of Asian Population Association (APA), 2010, 2012

• Editorial Board Member of BMC Women's Health
• Member of Early Career Taskforce of the International Union for the Scientific Study of Population (IUSSP)
• Young Scientist Summer Programme (YSSP) at International Institute for Applied System Analysis (IIASA) Laxenburg, Austria funded by IIASA and Technology Information, Forecasting and Assessment Council (TIFAC), New Delhi. 2010.
• UGC-Junior/Senior Research Fellowship (JRF/SRF) to pursue PhD Course in International Institute for population Sciences: 2010 to 2012.

1. Kumar P.; Srivastava S; Maurya C.; Dhillon P^*. An assessment of the role of socio-economic, maternal, and service utilization factors in increasing self-reported maternal complications in India. BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth  2021 21:519.
2. Panda B.K., Mithun Mog, Dhillon P.^* (2021) Double burden of malnutrition among adolescents in India, Demography India, 50(1):85-98.
3. Arpan Sil, Apyayee Sil, Preeti Dhillon, Mithun Mog, Factors affecting External causes of deaths among adults (15–59 years) in South Indian states: A study using Bayesian model on National Family Health Survey-4 (2015–16) data, Clinical Epidemiology and Global Health, 2021, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cegh.2021.100796.
4. Kumar P, Srivastava S, Chauhan S, Patel R, Marbaniang SP, Dhillon P (2021) Factors associated with gynaecological morbidities and treatment-seeking behaviour among adolescent girls residing in Bihar and Uttar Pradesh, India. PLoS ONE 16(6): e0252521. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0252521
5. Chauhan S, Kumar P, Marbaniang SP, Srivastava S, Patel R, Dhillon P (2021) Examining the predictors of use of sanitary napkins among adolescent girls: A multi-level approach. PLoS ONE 16(4): e0250788. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0250788.
6. Apyayee Sil, Arpan Sil and Preeti Dhillon^* 2021. Modelling determinants of deaths attributable to external causes among adults in India, OMEGA-Journal of Death and Dying https://doi.org/10.1177/00302228211009736
7. Kumar P., Srivastava S., Chauhan S., Patel R., Marbaniang S.P., Dhillon P. 2021. Associated factors and socio-economic inequality in the prevalence of thinness and stunting among adolescent boys and girls in Uttar Pradesh and Bihar. February 24, 2021. PLoS ONE https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0247526
8. Patel R., Gupte S.S., Srivastava S. Kumar P., Chauhan S., Govindu M.D., Dhillon P. 2021. Experience of gender-based violence and its effect on depressive symptoms among Indian adolescent girls: Evidence from UDAYA survey. PLoS ONE March 25, 2021 https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0248396
9. Saikia B., Marbaniang S.P., Kumar P., Dhillon P. 2021. Changing pattern of tobacco consumption and quitting behavior in Northeastern states of India. Journal of Substance Use. https://doi.org/10.1080/14659891.2021.1875068, 
10. Onori, F., Dhillon P., Dinachandra K., Jaleel A., Saraswat A., R.S R., Unisa S., Sethi V. An Adaptation of the Food Insecurity Experience Scale (FIES) for Measuring Food Insecurity Among Women in Socially- Backward Communities, Asian Journal of Agriculture and Development, Priprint, April 2021.
11. Ishita Pal, Balhasan Ali, Preeti Dhillon^*, 2021. Neelanjana Pandey. Factors determining paid and unpaid work in young adults: Evidence from a cohort study in Bihar, India. The Indian Journal of Labour Economics, 64(1), 133-153, doi: 10.1007/s41027-020-00298-3
12. Kumar P., Srivastava S., Mishra P.S. Sinha D. and Dhillon P. Does depressive symptoms, physical inactivity and substance use catalyze the suicidal tendency among adolescents? Evidence from a cross-sectional study. Chidren and Youth Services Review. Volume 119, December 2020, 105661
13. Chauhan S., Srivastava S., Kumar P., Patel R., Muhammad T. & Dhillon P. Interaction of substance use with physical activity and its effect on depressive symptoms among adolescents, Journal of Substance Use, 2020. DOI: 10.1080/14659891.2020.1851411
14. Pradeep Kumar, Preeti Dhillon, Structural equation modelling on the relationship between maternal characteristics and pregnancy complications: A study based on Indian Demographic & Health Survey. The Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology Research. https://doi.org/10.1111/jog.14566
15. Srivastava S., Ramanathan M., Dhillon P., Maurya C., Singh S.K. (2020) Gender Differentials in Prevalence of Loneliness among Older Adults in India: An analysis from WHO Study on global AGEing and Adult health, Ageing International https://doi.org/10.1007/s12126-020-09394-7.
16. Preeti Dhillon with Local Burden of Disease Diarrhoea Collaborators Mapping geographical inequalities in oral rehydration therapy coverage in low-income and middle-income countries, 2000–17. The Lancet Global Health. Vol 8 (8) 2020. Pages e1038-e1060
17. Preeti Dhillon with LBD Double Burden of Malnutrition Collaborators. 2020. Mapping local patterns of childhood overweight and wasting in low- and middle-income countries between 2000 and 2017. Nature medicine. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41591-020-0807-6
18. Preeti Dhillon with Local Burden of Disease Diarrhoea Collaborators. 2020. Mapping geographical inequalities in childhood diarrhoeal morbidity and mortality in low-income and middle-income countries, 2000–17: analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2017. The Lancet, https://doi.org/10.1016/S0140-6736(20)30114-8.
19. Apyayee Sil, Dinabandhu Patra, Preeti Dhillon^*, Padmanesan Narasimhan. 2020. Coexistence of Diabetes and TB among adults in India: a study based on National Family Health Survey. Journal of Biosocial Science, 1-15. doi:10.1017/S0021932020000516.
20. Preeti Dhillon, Govind Singh, Faujdar Ram, Pradeep Kumar, Niranjan Saggurti. 2020. Increasing role of abstinence and infecundity in non-use of contraceptive methods in India. Journal of Biosocial Science, 1-16. doi:10.1017/S0021932020000115
21. Pradeep Kumar and Preeti Dhillon. 2020. Household- and community-level determinants of low-risk Caesarean deliveries among women in India, Journal of Biosocial Science DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0021932020000024
22. Balhasan Ali, Preeti Dhillon, Sanjay K Mohanty (2019) Inequalities in the utilisation of maternal health care in pre and post National Health Mission period in India. Journal of Biosocial Science, https://doi.org/10.1017/S0021932019000385. Cambridge Core
23. Rupam Bharti, Preeti Dhillon, Pralip K Narzary. A spatial analysis of childhood stunting and its contextual correlates in India. Clinical Epidemiology and Global Health, Online first 12 April 2019. Elsevier 
24. Koustav Ghosh, Preeti Dhillon, Gopal Agrawal. (2019). Prevalence and detecting spatial clustering of diabetes at district level in India. Journal of Public Health, https://doi.org/10.1007/s10389-019-01072-6. Springer
25. Apyayee Sil and Preeti Dhillon^*. Intergenerational Occupational Mobility among Social and Demographic groups in India, in Bhagat R.B., Roy A.K., Sahoo H. (editors). Migration and Urban Transition in India. 13, Routledge
26. Laishram Ladusingh, Preeti Dhillon and Pralip K Narzary. 2017. Why do the Youths in Northeast India use Tobacco? Journal of Environmental and Public Health doi.org/10.1155/2017/1391253
27. Saddaf N Akhtar and Preeti Dhillon. 2017. Prevalence of diagnosed diabetes and associated risk factors: Evidence from the large-scale surveys in India, Journal of Social Health and Diabetes, Vol. 5 (1): pp 28-36. Medknow Publications
28. Jaya Jaya, Preeti Dhillon, Sanjay Kumar and Deepti Mehrotra. 2016. Challenging gender stereotypes and gender based violence in schools: Evidence from Adolescence Education Programme in India, Journal of Indian Education, Vol 42(1), NCERT 
29. Preeti Dhillon and Laishram Ladusingh. 2016. Implications of age structural transition and longevity improvements on health care expenditure in India, in Hoque, N., Beverly P. and McGehee, M. A. (Eds.)  Applied Demography and Public Health in the 21st Century Switzerland, Springer
30. Preeti Dhillon, Laishram Ladusingh and Gopal Agarwal. 2016. Ageing and Changing Patterns in Familial Structure for Older Persons in India: A decomposition analysis, Quality of Ageing and Older Adults, Vol. 17(2). Emerald
31. Diwakar Yadav and Preeti Dhillon. 2015. Assessing the Impact of Family Planning Advice during Maternal-Child Care Service Utilisation on Contraceptive Use in Rural Uttar Pradesh, India’, PLoS ONE, 10(3): doi: e0118584. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0118584
32. Preeti Dhillon and Laishram Ladusingh. 2013. Working life gain from gain in old age life expectancy in India, Demographic Research, Vol. 28(6) DOI: 10.4053/DemRes.2013.28.26. MPIDR, Rostock Germany
33. Preeti Dhillon and Diwakar Yadav. 2013. Assessing the impact of maternal-child health service utilisation on contraceptive use in India (Meeting Abstracts), The Lancet, Vol. 381 No. p S37
34. Preeti Dhillon and Laishram Ladusingh, 2011. ‘Economic activity in postretirement life in India’. Asia-Pacific Population Journal, Vol 26(3). http://www.unescap.org/sites/default/files/APPJ-Vol-26-No-3.pdf
35. Chander Shekhar and Preeti, 2009. ‘Active Life and Transition in Self-rated Health Status among Mexican Elderly’. Demography India, Vol. 38 (1).
36. Preeti and Laishram Ladusingh, 2009. “Concordance between Childbearing Intention and fertility Behavior: A Panel Study in Rural North India”, Journal of Population, Vol. 15(1).
    *Corresponding author

• Austria, United States of America, Morocco, Thailand.

Position Held

• Technical Specialist, International Center for Research on Women -Asia Regional Office- (ICRW), New Delhi from April 2015 to 12th October, 2015
• Monitoring and Evaluation Coordinator, Save the Children India, New Delhi from August 2014 to March 2015
• Consultant, United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) New Delhi, India from July, 2012 to July 2014
• Senior Research Officer/Research officer, District Level Households and Facility Survey (DLHS-3) at IIPS, Mumbai from January 2008 to December 2008

Country Visited

• Austria, United States of America, Morocco, Thailand.

Professional Membership

• Member Early Career Taskforce, IUSSP
• Lifetime member of Indian Association for the study of Population (IASP)
• Member of International Union for Scientific Study of Population (IUSSP)
• Member of Population Association of America (PAA), USA. 2014
• Student membership of Asian Population Association (APA), 2010, 2012

Consulting

Other Info

Teaching: More than 5 years of experience of teaching masters courses: Statistical Methods in Population Studies,  Advanced Statistical and Computer Applications, Sampling Techniques in Health & Demographic Surveys, Advanced statistical Packages and application in Large Scale Data, Demographic Models and Indirect Methods of Estimation, Monitoring & Evaluation, Epidemiological Methods, Survival Analysis.

Research guidance: PhD (1 Synopsis presented, 4 enrolled), M.Phil. (8 completed), (P.G. dissertation/term paper: completed 25)

PI/Co-PI in projects:

1. Longitudinal Study of Maternal and Infants Nutrition (Ongoing)
2. Demographic and Health Aspects in India: A District-Level Analysis based on NFHS (funder: UNFPA) (2020) Completed
3. Comprehensive National Nutrition Survey (CNNS) Knowledge Network (funder: UNICEF) (2019-20) Completed
4. Comprehensive Report on Sexual and Reproductive Aspects of Youth in India based on data from the NFHS project. (2019) Completed
5. Baseline survey of SWABHIMAN (funder: UNICEF) Completed

Administrative activities:

• Member of Gender Amity Committee of IIPS since 2019.
• Course Coordinator: Master in Biostatistics and Demography (2019-21)
• Organized IIPS International Seminar online 2021.
• Organized Annual National Seminar of IIPS at Bhubaneshwar in 2017, Hyderabad in 2019
• Organized Symposium on World Population Day in July 2019.