Mortality and cause of death studies using life tables; Formal demography or mathematical & statistical relations between demographic measures; Socio-economic and regional inequalities in health; Disability analysis; Quality of demographic data and undocumented immigration; Demography of Tribal Population.
China, Korea, Singapore, Germany, United Kingdom, Italy, Czeck Republic, France, Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Croatia, Hungry, Slovenia, Slovakia, South Africa, Morocco, Canada, United states of America, Brazil (20)
Position Held
Long term Position Held
- 2021, 13 October-present Professor in Public Health and Mortality Studies in International Institute for Population Studies, Mumbai
- 2013-2021 Assistant Professor, Centre for the Study of Regional Development, School of Social Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru University.
- 2017 to 2019 Post-Doctoral Research Fellow, International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA), Austria
- 2011-2013 Assistant Professor, Population Research Centre, Institute of Economic Growth, Delhi. 2011 Research fellow, Public Health Foundation of India, Delhi.
Short term Positions
- Queen Elizabeth Scholar at Dalla Lana School of Public Health and the Centre for Global Health Research, University of Toronto, Canada, 12th May-2nd June 2019
- A visitor at London School of Economics and Political Sciences, London, UK 12th September to 19th September 2018.
- Visiting fellow at Centre population et développement (CEPED) Paris, French September 2016.
- Guest Researcher position in Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, Rostock, Germany May, and August & September 2016; December 2014; June-July 2013; December 2010; December 2009-January 2010.
- Visiting Fellow in Vienna Institute for Demographic Research, Vienna, Austria from 18 December to 21 December 2013.
- Researcher position at Institut National d’etudes Demo- graphiques (INED), Paris, French during 10- 25th September 2013 [Not accepted]
- Fellow Researcher position in Institut National d’etudes Demo- graphiques (INED), Paris, French during 16-29 October 2011.
- Visiting Scholar in Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, Rostock, Germany from 19 October 2008 to 19 March 2009.
Country Visited
China, Korea, Singapore, Germany, United Kingdom, Italy, Czeck Republic, France, Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Croatia, Hungry, Slovenia, Slovakia, South Africa, Morocco, Canada, United states of America, Brazil (20)
Professional Membership
- Life Member of Indian Association for Study of Population (IASP)
- Life Member International Institute for Population Sciences Alumni Association (IIPSAA)
- Life Member of Indian Association for Social Science and Health (IASSH)
- Life Member Indian Health Economics and Policy Association (IHEPA)
- Life Member of Indian Society for Medical Statistics (ISMS)
- Annual Member of Population Association of America (PAA) 2012, 2014; 2017
- Annual Member of International Union for Scientific Study of Population (IUSSP) 2009, 2013, 2016-2019
- Annual Member of European Association for Population Studies (EAPS), 2016, 2021
Consulting
Other Info
Archives of Gerontology and Geriatrics; Asian Population Studies; BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth; Bulletin of the World Health Organization; Comparative Population Studies; Demography India; European Journal of Population; Genus Journal of Population Sciences; International Journal of Social Research Methodology; Journal of Social and Economic Development; Journal of Biosocial Science; Journal of Population Ageing; Journal of Population Research; Margin: The Journal of Applied Economic Research; PeerJ; Plosone; PlosMedicine; Population Review; SSM-Population Health; Social Change; Social Science and Medicine; Studies in Family Planning; The Lancet Global Health; World Development
Reviewer of International conferences like, Internal population conference 2021 organised by IUSSP; Asian Population Conferences 2021 etc.
Joint Secretary of Faculty club, JNU 2015-2017
Academic editor of PLOS Global Public Health
Organised two day webinar on “Indian Prospective on World Indigenous day” on 9-10 August 2020 with collaboration of CSRD, JNU; Atal Bihari Bajpayee Hindi Vishwavidyalaya, Bhopal; Pragyanam Indica and IIRD, Delhi.
Convenor for the theme on mortality, morbidity, epidemiology for the 5th APA conference to be held at Yogyakarta, Indonesia, 24-27 November 2020 (Postponed).
Organized two day workshop together with Prof Christophe Guilmoto on preparing “Atlas of demographic and gender inequalities in India” on 16-17th December 2019 at CSH, Delhi
Organized a half day seminar on “Demographic and Social Implications of NRC: A Way Forward” on 5th November 2019 at Committee room, SSS 1, Jawaharlal Nehru University [Funder: ICSSR, Northern regional Centre].
Organized a half day seminar on “Demographic and Social Implications of NRC: A Way Forward” on 5th November 2019 at Committee room, SSS 1, Jawaharlal Nehru University [Funder: ICSSR, Northern regional Centre].
Organized a field trip for the course RD413 (Socio-economic Study Trip) in Nagaon district of Assam for M.A. Fourth Semester students (batch 2015-17). The trip was scheduled from 29th December 2016 to 12th January, 2017 with a team of 40 students and faculties of CSRD, JNU, Delhi.
Organized international seminar on “Mortality Forecasting in developing countries” during 6-8 April 2017 together with Dr Vladimir Canudas-Romo, Max Planck Odense Center on the Biodemography of Aging, University of Southern Denmark, Denmark and Prof K S James at Centre for Study of Regional Development, JNU, Delhi.
Organized International training workshop on “Demography of Gender Bias” during 20-24 March 2017 together with Prof Christophe Guilmoto, CEPED France and Prof K S James at Centre for Study of Regional Development, JNU, Delhi.
Carried out socio-economic field trip with 37 MA students of Geography course during 29 December 2016 to 12 th January 2017 to Assam as part of the course RD413 along with Prof K K Sharma at Centre for Study of Regional Development, JNU, Delhi.
Organized international seminar on “Mortality and Causes of Death Studies in India: Requirement, Availability and Analysis during past four decades” during 26-27 March 2015 together with Dr Bhawati Das in Centre for Study of Regional Development, JNU, Delhi.
Coordinated “Census Data Dissemination Workshop” in CSRD, JNU on January 23rd 2015 together with Dr Dipendra Nath Das.
Organized 3 day training workshop on “Introduction to R” in Centre for Study of Regional Development among PhD and M Phil Students.
Organized international workshop on “Health Inequality in India: Concept, Method and Evidence” during 23-24th July 2013 together with Dr William Joe at Institute of Economic Growth, New Delhi.
RESEARCH GUIDANCE (9 M Phil students and 16 PhD students)
- Number of awarded MPhil students: 8 (Vandana Tamrakar; Mukunda Upadhyay; Mukesh Parmar; Moradhvaj; Benjamin Debbarma; Somdutta Baruah; Bandita Boro; Krishna Kumar)
- Number of PhD students awarded: 5 (Dr Sasmita Jena; Dr Priyanka Namdev Rao; Dr Tekchand Saini, Dr Vandana Tamrakar, Dr Moradvaj );
- Number of PhD students submitted or pre-ubmission completed: 8 (Mr Nagendra; Mr Benjamin Debbarma, Shewli Shabnam; Mukesh Parmar; Ankita Srivastava; Sudheer Kumar Shukla; Somdutta Baruah, Sadaf Naz Akhtar)
- Ongoing PhD Students: 3 (Bandita Boro; Girimallika Bora; Krishna Kumar) ; Number of ongoing M Phil Students: 1 (Souvik Mondal);
- Population Council of India, Delhi