With over five years of extensive expertise in population aging, public health, maternal and child health, and statistical demography, I hold a Ph.D. in Population Studies and a Master's in Statistics. My research spans diverse domains, including fertility, mortality, migration, spatial analyses, urbanization, and labor force dynamics. Proficient in qualitative and quantitative methods, I utilize various software such as SPSS, STATA, R, Python, GeoDa, QGIS, PowerBi, ATLAS.ti, and NVivo. As a Research Fellow at the esteemed National Institute of Urban Affairs and a former Research Analyst at IIASA's Young Scientist Summer Program, I have presented groundbreaking work in numerous national and international conferences. My doctoral thesis, "National and Sub-National Projections of Aging in India: A Probabilistic Approach," introduced innovative methodologies reshaping perceptions of aging at the subnational level, contributing significantly to the demographic discourse in India.
Published Article:
1. Tamrakar, V., Srivastava, A., Saikia, N., Parmar, M. C., Shukla, S. K., Shabnam, S., Boro, B., Saha, A., & Debbarma, B. (2021). District level correlates of COVID-19 pandemic in India during March- October 2020. PLOS ONE, 16(9), e0257533. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0257533
Chapter in a book
1.Srivastava, A., Boro, B. (2023). Anemia Among Children and Women in India. In: Guilmoto, C.Z. (eds) Atlas of Gender and Health Inequalities in India. Demographic Transformation and Socio-Economic Development, vol 16. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-47847-5_5
Pre-Prints:
1. Srivastava, A., Tamrakar, V., Naaz Akhtar, S., Kumar, K., Chand Saini, T., & Saikia, N. (2020). Geographical Variation in COVID-19 Cases, Prevalence, Recovery and Fatality Rate by Phase of National Lockdown in India, March 14-May 29, 2020. https://doi.org/10.1101/2020.06.04.20122028
2. Tamrakar, V., Srivastava, A., Parmar, M. C., Shukla, S. K., Shabnam, S., Boro, B., … Saikia, N. (2020). District level correlates of COVID-19 pandemic in India. MedRxiv, 2020.10.08.20208447. https://doi.org/10.1101/2020.10.08.20208447
3. Srivastava, A., & Nandita, S. (2022). Aging in India: Comparison of Conventional and Prospective Measures, 2011. MedRxiv, 2022.04.11.22273700. https://doi.org/10.1101/2022.04.11.22273700
4. Debbarma, B., Srivastava, A., & Saikia, N. (2023). Association between social networks and substance use among male tribal adolescents in the North-East Indian state of Tripura. MedRxiv, 2023.05.07.23289634. https://doi.org/10.1101/2023.05.07.23289634
AWARDS/HONOURS
1. Honoured with Dr. C. Chandrasekaran Gold Medal for securing first rank in MPS 2013-14 batches from International Institute for Population Sciences (IIPS), Mumbai, India.
2. Awarded a Gold Medal for standing first class first in M.Sc. (Statistics) in Mahatma Gandhi Kashi Vidyapeeth University, Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh. India.
3. Government of India Fellowship for pursuing MPS and M Phil Course in International Institute for population Sciences from 5 July, 2013 to 26 May, 2015.
4. Qualified Government of India, University Grants Commission-National Eligibility Test (UGC-NET) for the eligibility for Assistant Professor in India, December 2013.
6. Awarded the Indian Council of Social Science Research (ICSSR) Centrally-Administered Full-Term
Doctoral Fellowship in the Year 2019-20, (Rs 20,000 per month) for completion of Ph.D.