Usha Ram

Professor and Head, Department of Public Health and Mortality Studies
International Institute for Population Sciences (IIPS)

usharamagrawal@gmail.com

Field of Study: Demography, Population and Development
 
Specialization: Fertility, Mortality, Health, and Longevity, Reproductive Health (Family Planning)
 
Regional focus: Southeast Asia
 
Education: Doctorate (Ph.D, or MD), IIPS, Demography, 1991
 
Working languages: English
Hindi
 
Other association membership in population or related fields: Asian Population Association (APA)
IASP; IASSH


Personal web page:
https://scholar.google.co.in/citations?user=8EA1-aQAAAAJ&hl=en
Curriculum Vitae:
CV_UshaRam_May 23 2024.pdf
Professional web page:
https://www.webofscience.com/wos/author/search)  
 
Professional Summary:

Experienced in implementing large scale sample surveys, analysing large data sets on population and health, teaching in higher education institutions and undertaking research on issues of public health including maternal and child health, adolescent health and minority population and working with non-governmental organizations working on child sexual abuse and nutrition. I developed a new method for estimating mortality for smaller units with missing data which is published in the Lancet Global Health and has been widely appreciated and adopted by several countries, including Ethiopia, Mexico, and Brazil.

 

Publications:

Ram U, Ramesh BM, Blanchard AK, et al. A tale of two exemplars: the maternal and newborn mortality transitions of two state clusters in India. BMJ Global Health 2024;9:e011413. doi:10.1136/bmjgh-2022-011413

Usha Ram and F Ram. Neonatal infections in South Asia: challenges ahead. . Lancet Global Health, September 2022. https://www.thelancet.com/journals/langlo/article/PIIS2214- 109X(22)00305-9/fulltext

Usha Ram, F Ram, P M Kulkarni. The SRS Data on Early Childhood Mortality in India. Economic & Political Weekly. vol lVi no 52. December 25, 2021

Usha Ram, Prabhat Jha, Patrick Gerland, Ryan J Hum, Peter Rodriguez, Wilson Suraweera, Kaushalendra Kumar, Rajesh Kumar, Rajesh Dikshit, Denis Xavier, Rajeev Gupta, Prakash C Gupta, Faujdar Ram. Age-specific and sex-specific adult mortality risk in 597 Districts of India in 2014: National Surveys of 0•27 Million nationally surveyed Deaths and demographic estimates from 597 districts. Published: Dec 2015 in The Lancet Global Health. DOI: 10.1016/S2214- 109X(15)00091-1

Usha Ram, Prabhat Jha, Faujdar Ram, Kaushalendra Kumar, Shally Awasthi, Anita Shet, Joy Pader, Stella Nansukusa, Rajesh Kumar. Neonatal, 1–59 month, and under – 5 mortality in 597 Indian districts, 2001 to 2012: estimates from national demographic and mortality surveys. The Lancet Global Health: September 19, 2013, DOI: 10.1016/S2214 – 109X(13)70073 – 1, e1-e8.

 
Honorary or professional positions and awards:
 
Technical Advisor, Institute for Global Public Health, University of Manitoba, CA

Appeared in the recently released ‘Indian Researchers who were Top 2% in 2019 – Stanford Study’ (https://tech-talk.org/2020/11/22/indian-researchers-who-were-top-2-in-2019- stanford-study/)

Former Professor and Head, Department of Biostatistics and Epidemiology, IIPS, India

Former Professor, Depts. of Public Health and Mortality Studies and Biostatistics and Epidemiology, IIPS, India
Research grants:
2011-5 CIHR-HOPE fellow at the Centre for Global Health Research, St. Michael’s Hospital, University of Toronto, CA (2011-2015)



Government of India Scholarship for PhD