Arvind Pandey

National Chair (Medical Statistics)
ICMR - National Institute of Medical Statistics

arvindp55@gmail.com

Field of Study: Demography, Statistics,
 
Specialization: Data Collection and Processing, HIV/AIDS and STI's, Reproductive Health (Family Planning)
 
Regional focus: South Asia
 
Education: Doctorate (Ph.D, or MD), Banaras Hindu University, Statistics, 1981
 
Working languages: English
 
Other association membership in population or related fields: Asian Population Association (APA), Population Association of America (PAA),


Curriculum Vitae:
CV Arvind Pandey.pdf
 
Professional Summary:

Gratuated PhD in Statistics from BHU, Varanasi, India and postdoctoral work from Carolina Population Center, UNC Chapel Hill, USA on Rockefeller Foundation fellowship.  Currently working as the Director of the National Institute of Medical Statistics, ICMR, New Delhi, since 12th May 2000. Prior to this he was a Professor of Mathematical Demography & Statistics at IIPS, Mumbai.

Guided 14 PhD and served member on various Technical Advisory Groups including different rounds of India's DHS, i.e., NFHS, NACO etc.

 

Authored more than 156 peer-reviewed articles and authored /edited 12 books. Lead reseaercher for the estimation of disease burden of HIV/AIDS in India.

 

Publications:

 

1.      Arvind Pandey, D. Sahu, Taoufik Bakkali, D.C.S. Reddy, S. Venkatesh, Shashi Kant, M. Bhattacharya, Yujwal Raj, Partha Haldar, Deepak Bhardwaj, Nalini Chandra (2012) Estimate of HIV prevalence and number of people living with HIV in India 2008-09, BMJ Open 2, September 30, 2012; 2:e000926, doi:10.1136, pp. 1-8.

 

2.      Arvind Pandey, R.M. Mishra, D. Sahu,  S.K, Benara,U. Sengupta, R.S. Paranjape,A. Gautam, S.R. Lenka, R. Adhikary (2011) Heading towards the Safer Highways: An assessment of the Avahan prevention programme among long distance truck drivers in India, BMC Public Health, Vo. 11 (Suppl.), pp. S15: 1-12.

 

3.       Arvind Pandey, Sanjay Kumar (2011) Mortality, Morbidity and Burden of Diseases in Bihar, Journal of Social and Economic Studies, Vo. XXI(II): Special Issue on Population and Development in Bihar, A.N. Sinha Institute of Social Studies, Patna, pp. 74-103.

 

4.      Padam Singh, Arvind Pandey & Abha Aggarwal (2007) House-to-house survey vs. snowball technique for capturing maternal deaths in India: A pilot study in search of a cost effective method, Indian Journal of Medical Research, Vol.125, April Issue, pp.550-556.

 

 

5.      Arvind Pandey, B.N. Bhattacharya, D. Sahu & Rehena Sultana (2004) Are too early, too quickly and too many births the high risk births: an analysis of infant mortality in India using National Family Health Survey, Demography India,.vol.33(2):127-156.

 

 

 

 
Honorary or professional positions and awards:
 
Young Scientist Award of the Indian Science Congress Association,

Fellow of (Indian)National Academy Medical Sciences,

Fellow of Royal Statistical Society, and

Fellow of Indian Society for Medical Statistics.

President of the Indian Association for the Study of Population (IASP), 2006-2010 and Indian Society for Medical Statistics, 2009-2010;

Chief Editor, Demography India (Journal of IASP), 2002-2007.