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

• Assistant Professor, Dept. of Mathematical Demography and Statistics, IIPS Mumbai October 2015-2021.
• 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 (2019-21)
• 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; Guest editor: BMC Supplements
• 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.

Research Projects (Principal Investigator/Co-Principal Investigator):

1. National Family Health Survey-6 (Funder: MoHFW) Ongoing
2. Longitudinal Study of Maternal and Infants Nutrition (Funder: IIPS, Ongoing)
3. Tele-SWABHIMAN (funder: UNICEF) Ongoing
4. Demographic and Health Aspects in India: A District-Level Analysis based on NFHS (funder: UNFPA) (2020) Completed
5. Comprehensive National Nutrition Survey (CNNS) Knowledge Network (funder: UNICEF) (2019-20) Completed
6. Comprehensive Report on Sexual and Reproductive Aspects of Youth in India based on data from the NFHS project. (2019) Completed
7. Baseline survey of SWABHIMAN (funder: UNICEF) Completed

Publications:

1. Ali B., Dhillon P. Cointegration and Causality between Fertility and Female Labour Force Participation in India. Demography India Vol. 51, No. 1 (2022), pp. 126-143
2. Purkayastha, N., Dhillon, P., Ali, B. et al. Changing Patterns of One-Person and One-Couple-Only Households in India. Population Ageing (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12062-022-09401-6
3. Kundu, S., & Dhillon, P. 2022. Applications of new measures of population ageing using quantity and quality of remaining life years to India and selected states. Journal of Biosocial Science, 1-19. doi:10.1017/S0021932022000281
4. Maurya, C., Muhammad, T., Dhillon, P. Maurya P. The effects of cyberbullying victimization on depression and suicidal ideation among adolescents and young adults: a three year cohort study from India. BMC Psychiatry 22, 599 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1186/s12888-022-04238-x
5. Unisa S., Dhillon P*., Anand E.  Sahoo H., Agarwal P.K. 2022. Data quality of birthweight reporting in India: Evidence from cross-sectional surveys and service statistics. SSM Population Health. Special Issue: Quality of large-scale survey data in India: Issues and perspectives.
6. Dhillon P., Sahoo H., Usman M., Srivastava A. Agrawal P.K., Johnston R., Unisa S. 2022. Status and correlates of micronutrient deficiencies in slum and non-slum areas of India's four metropolitan cities: Investigation from CNNS. Social Science & Medicine. 309. 115259
7. Ghate N., Kumar P., Dhillon P. Socioeconomic Determinants of Smokeless Tobacco Use among Indian Women: An Analysis of Global Adult Tobacco Survey‑2, India. WHO South-East Asia J Public Health 2022;11:24-31
8. Maurya C, Muhammad T, Maurya P, Dhillon P. The association of smartphone screen time with sleep problems among adolescents and young adults: cross-sectional findings from India. BMC Public Health. 2022 Sep 5;22(1):1686. doi: 10.1186/s12889-022-14076-x.
9. Mawkhlieng D.R., Dhillon P. Ladusingh L. 2022. Assessment of Future Manpower Requirements in Public Healthcare of India and its Northeastern Region. Asian Pacific Journal of Health Sciences. 9(4). https://doi.org/10.21276/apjhs.2022.9.4S1.06
10. Prakash S., Kumar P., Dhillon P., Unisa S. 2022. Correlates of acess to sanitation facilities and benefits received from Swachh Bharat Mission in India: Analysis of cross-sectional data from the 2018 National Sample Survey. BMJ Open. 12(7):e060118.
11. Yadav R., Dhillon P., Kujur A., Patel S.K. 2022. Association between school dropouts, early marriages, childbearing, and mental health in early adulthood of women: Evidence from a cohort study in Bihar, India. International Journal of Population Studies Article ID: 1280 Vol 8, Issue 1.
12. Srivastava, S., Chauhan, S., Patel, R. Marbaniang S P., Kumar P. Dhillon P. and Pandey P. Exposure to Pornographic Content Among Indian Adolescents and Young Adults and Its Associated Risks: Evidence from UDAYA Survey in Bihar and Uttar Pradesh. Arch Sex Behav (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10508-022-02411-7
13. Srivastava S, Chauhan S, Patel R, Marbaniang SP, Kumar P, Paul R, Dhillon P. (2021) Banned by the law, practiced by the society: The study of factors associated with dowry payments among adolescent girls in Uttar Pradesh and Bihar, India. PLoS ONE 16(10): e0258656. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0258656
14. Srivastava, S., Kumar, P., Rashmi, Paul R. Dhillon, P. (2021) Does substance use by family members and community affect the substance use among adolescent boys? Evidence from UDAYA study, India. BMC Public Health 21, 1896. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12889-021-11911-5
15. Kumar P.; Srivastava S; Maurya C.; Dhillon P^* (2021). 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 21:519.
16. Panda B.K., Mithun Mog, Dhillon P.^* (2021) Double burden of malnutrition among adolescents in India, Demography India, 50(1):85-98.
17. 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.
18. 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
19. 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.
20. 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
21. 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
22. 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
23. 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, 
24. 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.
25. 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
26. 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
27. 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
28. 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
29. 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.
30. Preeti Dhillon with Local Burden Disease WaSH Collaborators. Mapping geographical inequalities in access to drinking water and sanitation facilities in low-income and middle-income countries, 2000–17. The Lancet Global Health. 2020. 8(9).e1162-e1185
31. 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
32. 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
33. 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.
34. 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.
35. 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
36. 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
37. 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
38. 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 
39. 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
40. 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
41. 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
42. 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
43. 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 
44. 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
45. 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
46. 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
47. 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
48. 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
49. 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
50. Chander Shekhar and Preeti, 2009. ‘Active Life and Transition in Self-rated Health Status among Mexican Elderly’. Demography India, Vol. 38 (1).
51. 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

Regional Expert Consultant for Evaluation of UNFPA Support to Population Dynamics and Data, Regional Case study: Asia and The Pacific 2022

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

Position Held

• Assistant Professor, Dept. of Mathematical Demography and Statistics, IIPS Mumbai October 2015-2021.
• 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 (2019-21)
• 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

Regional Expert Consultant for Evaluation of UNFPA Support to Population Dynamics and Data, Regional Case study: Asia and The Pacific 2022

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 (5 awarded, 4 enrolled), M.Phil. (8 completed), (P.G. dissertation/term paper: completed 25)

Administrative activities:

• Programme Coordinator MSc in Survey Research and Data Analytics (MSD) 2024 to present
• Master in Survey research and Data Analytics course structure commitee member 
• UG Curriculum Development Commitee as per National Education Policy 
• PG Curriculum development Commitee as per National Education Policy 
• Member of Gender Amity Committee of IIPS. 2019-21.
• 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.

Resource persons/Invited Lecture

• Five days workshop on Data Visualization and Analytics, at IIPS, Mumbai February 17-February 23, 2021
• Sampling techniques in Large scale surveys, Online course for PRC Officials, 2021
• Choosing appropriate statistical techniques for research data, Online course for PRC Officials, 2020
• Workshop on Gender Analysis Framework’ held at IIPS during October 5-9, 2019
• Invited lectures on different topics of statistical techniques to students/scholars from Universities like Central University of Karnataka, Gangadhar Meher University, Sambalpur, Bodoland University, Kokrajhar, Assam