Education Area Of Interest Research & Publication Achievements and Awards Other Important Info.
Visiting Fellowships:
- Visiting Fellow at Maison de Sciences la Homme, Paris, Sept.- Nov. 2003(under Indo-French Academic Exchange Program).
- Visiting Research Fellow at Welcome Trust Center for History of Medicine, University of London, UK, May - June 2003.
- Visiting Fellow at Lund University, Lund, Sweden, June-August. 2005.
- Guest Lecturer at Universities of Stockholm and Uppsala in Sweden, sponsored by SASNET and Nordic Centre, March-April 2009
- Visiting Fellow, Oxford Brookes University, UK, June-July, 2009.
Ongoing Project Studies:
- Longitudinal Ageing Study in India (LASI), Jointly by the International Institute for Population Sciences, Harvard School of Public Health and University of Southern California, sponsored by the National Institute of Ageing (NIH), UNFPA-India and Government of India (2014-2019).
- Study on Global AGEing and Adult Health (SAGE-India) Wave 2, at IIPS, sponsored by the World Health Organization, Geneva (2014-2017).
- Estimation of Vital Rates for Bombay Presidency in the Colonial Period, IIPS and Hitotsubashi University,Japan, supported by MoHFW, Govt. of India (2014-16).
Editor / Peer Reviews:
- Managing Editor, Demography India, the professional journal of the Indian Association for the Study of Population (IASP). (2011 - 2015).
- Editor, Working Paper Series and Research Brief Series, IIPS, Mumbai (2011-2014)
- Member, Editorial Advisory Board, Asian Population Studies Journal.
Reviewer for Professional Journals:
- Gender,Technology and Development, Journal of Biosocial Science, Asia-Pacific Population Journal, Economic and Political Weekly, Sociological Bulletin, Indian Journal of Social Work, etc.
Position Held :
- Professor, Department of Population Policies and Programs, International Institute for Population Sciences (IIPS), Mumbai (May 2012- continuing).
- Associate Professor, International Institute for Population Sciences (IIPS), Mumbai (May 2006- May 2012).
- Assistant Professor, Institute for Social and Economic Change (ISEC), Bangalore (Dec.1996 - May 2006).
- Research Officer, PRAVA, Institute for Social and Economic Change, Bangalore (March 1994 - Nov.1996).
- Social Scientist, WHO-ICMR project, Kidwai Memorial Institute of Oncology (Govt. of Karnataka), Bangalore (Jan.1993 - Feb.1994).
Professional Membership :
- Life Member, Indian Association for Social Sciences and Health (IASSH), General Secretary- 2014-2017.
- Life Member, Indian Association for the Study of Population (IASP). Executive Committee Member - 2011-2015.
- Life Member, Indian Sociological Society (ISS).
- Member, International Union for the Scientific Study of Population (IUSSP).
- Member, Population Association of America (PAA).
- Associate Member, American Sociological Association (ASA).
- Member, Asian Population Association (APA).
- Life Member, Association of Gerontology, India (AGI).
- Council Member, The Global Social Initiative on Ageing (GSIA)- IAGG.
Consulting :
- Financial Incentive Schemes for Promotion of Girls: A Review of Select Schemes in Indian States (May to Dec. 2010) for UNFPA-India.
- Conditional Cash Transfer (CCT) Schemes for Children in India (Sept. to Dec.2015) for UNICEF-India.
- Review of the Functioning of Department of Health and Family Welfare in Karnataka (Jan. to July 2001) for Karnataka Administrative Reforms Commission, Government of Karnataka and Ford Foundation, New Delhi.
- Health Education Program through Bangalore Doordarshan, for Dept. of Health and Family Welfare, Govt. of Karnataka, 2003.
- External Evaluation of India Population Project-IX (IEC, Training and NGO components), for Govt. of Karnataka and the World Bank, 2002.
- Developing Training Modules for Panchayat Members and NGO workers on Health Issues, for Population Foundation of India and Govt. of Karnataka, 1999.
- Member, Steering Committee, India Youth Development Report-2016 .
- Member, TAC of Project on Sex Selection in South Asia, Population Council, India.
- Member, Institutional Review Board (IRB), Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai.
Country visited :
- USA, France, United Kingdom, Sweden, China, Denmark, Thailand, Singapore, Sri Lanka, Finland, Bahrain, South Korea, Bangladesh, Myanmar.