International Seminar/Conferences

Presented paper “Sub National Variation in neonatal mortality during 1981-2011” in the annual meeting of Population Association of America, Boston, USA, 1-3 May, 2014.

Presented paper “Mortality in India during 1970-2006: The role of causes of death in explaining the Female-Male mortality gap ” in 27th IUSSP Conference, Busan, South Korea, 26-31 August, 2013.

Presented paper “Mortality Inequality in India during 1970-2010: Integrating Census and Sample Registration System Findings” in JY Pillay Comparative Asia Research Centre conference, National University of Singapore, Singapore, 22-24 May, 2013.

Presented poster “Adult Mortality in India: An application of widowhood method” in the annual meeting of Population Association of America, San Francisco, USA, 3-5 May, 2012.

Presented paper in IUSSP Regional conference “Social Determinants of Infant mortality: does class or caste matter in Urban India?” in international conference “New Approaches to Urban Health and Mortality” during the Health Transition, Sevilla, Spain by IUSSP) during 14-17 December, 2011.

Presented paper “Explaining reduction of urban infant mortality in India: Evidence from NFHS data during 1992-93 to 2005-06” in 10th International Conference on Urban Health held at MINASCENTRO Convention Center, in Belo Horizonte City, Brazil, 1-5 November, 2011.

Presented paper “Determinants of Adult Mortality in India” in 26th IUSSP International Population conference held in Morocco 27 September 2009- 2 October, 2009.

Invited Talks

Invited speaker on “Trends and geographical differentials in mortality under age 60 in India” at Seminar Program of Cedeplar, Federal University of Minas Gerais (UFMG) on 4 November, 2011 in Belo Horizonte, Brazil.

Invited speaker on “Adult Mortality in India” in Institut National d'etudes Demo- graphiques (INED), Paris in the seminar “Health and Mortality in Asia”, held on 21 October, 2011.

Invited speaker in Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) on “Adult Mortality in India” in IHME, Seattle, USA on 27 September, 2010.

Training & Workshops

Attended Ethnic and Cultural Diversity– MPI Summer School 2014 organized by The Center for the Study of Ethnic and Cultural Diversity in China at Minzu University, Beijing in from 07-11 July 2014.

Attended course “Statistical modeling of Missing values” in Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, Rostock, Germany from 13-17th December, 2010.

Attended workshop “Demographic Computations: Multistate Population Projection” at ISEC 9-13 November, 2010 by International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA), Austria & Institute for Social Economic Change (ISEC), Bangalore.

Attended summer workshop “Frontiers of formal Demography” in Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, Rostock, Germany during 2-10 June, 2009.

Attended the course “Demographic Techniques in Public Health Research” from 19 October, 2008 to 19 March, 2009 , Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research Center, Rostock, Germany .

Attended NCEAR and The World Bank training workshop “Evaluation the impact of Development Programs: Turning Promises into Evidence”, in Crown Plaza, New Delhi, March 11-22, 2013.

Attended training on SAS Visual Data Discovery, SAS Web Report Studio and Share Point by Vayamtech as a part of HMIS Augmentation Progarm in NIHFW, New Delhi, 26-30 June, 2012.

Attended “National Training Workshop on Policy Models for Evidence-Based Decision Making and Advocacy” in NIFHW, New Delhi organized by USAID & Health Policy Project, 9-11 April, 2012.

Attended international summer school 2012, “Contextualizing Social Determinants of Health” at CSMCH, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, organized by German Academic Exchange Service(DAAD) and Bielefield University, ICMR, ICSSR and JNU, 26-30 March, 2012.