Jayanta Kumar Bora

Executive Director
VART Consulting

jkbnwg@gmail.com

Field of Study: Demography, Education, Geography, Public Health/ Epidemiology, Statistics
 
Specialization: Age and Sex Structure, Applied Demography, Children and Youth, Data Collection and Processing, Economic Demography, Education and Schooling, Estimates and Projections, Gender Roles-Differentials, HIV/AIDS and STI's, Mortality, Health, and Longevity, Population and Development, Reproductive Health (Family Planning), Training, Documentation, Information
 
Regional focus: Central and Eastern Europe, Southeast Asia, East Asia
 
Education: Doctorate (Ph.D, or MD), , Demography, 2022
 
Working languages: English
Assamese, Hindi, Bengali
 
Other association membership in population or related fields: Asian Population Association (APA), European Association for Population Studies (EAPS), Population Association of America (PAA)


Curriculum Vitae:
JB_CV_May 2024.pdf
Professional web page:
https://www.linkedin.com/in/dr-jayanta-bora-aba80611/  
 
Professional Summary:

Dr. Jayanta Bora is a distinguished expert in statistics, demography, public health, and data science. As the Founding and Executive Director of VART Consulting (P) LTD in Mumbai, he specializes in child health, mortality, demographic research, and data analysis. Dr Bora mentors researchers and Ph.D. scholars, teaching research methodology and data science using tools like MS Excel, STATA, SPSS, Power BI, R, and Python. He has affiliations with the University of Economics and Business (WU) and the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA) in Vienna. Dr. Bora has contributed to development projects with IIPS, PHFI, and various research initiatives on reproductive health, HIV/AIDS, and WHO's Global Ageing and Adult Health Study. With over 30 published research papers, he is also an academic editor for PLOS ONE and PLOS Global Public Health Journals. His work in capacity-building training and research programs highlights his commitment to knowledge dissemination and skill development.

 

Publications:

Bora, J.K. (2023). Female Under-Five Mortality 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_6
Bora, J. K., Saikia, N., Kebede, E. B., & Lutz, W. (2022). Revisiting the causes of fertility decline in Bangladesh: the relative importance of female education and family planning programs. Asian Population Studies, 1-24. DOI: 10.1080/17441730.2022.2028253
Saikia N, Meh C., Ram U, Bora JK, Mishra B., Chandra S., Jha P. (2021). Trends in missing females at birth in India from 1981 to 2016: analyses of 2·1 million birth histories in nationally representative surveys. Lancet Global Health. DOI: 10.1016/S2214-109X(21)00094-2.
Bora, J. K. (2020). Factors explaining regional variation in under-five mortality in India: An evidence from NFHS-4. Health & Place, 64, 102363. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.healthplace.2020.102363
Dimitrova A, Bora JK (2020) Monsoon weather and early childhood health in India. PLoS ONE 15(4): e0231479. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0231479
Striessnig, E., Bora, J.K. Under-Five Child Growth and Nutrition Status: Spatial Clustering of Indian Districts. Spat Demogr 8, 63–84 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s40980-020-00058-3
Bora, J. K., & Saikia, N. (2018). Neonatal and under-five mortality rate in Indian districts with reference to Sustainable Development Goal 3: An analysis of the National Family Health Survey of India (NFHS), 2015–2016. PloS one, 13(7), e0201125.
Guilmoto CZ, Saikia N, Tamrakar V, & Bora JK (2018). Excess under-5 female mortality across India: a spatial analysis using 2011 census data. Lancet Global Health 6: 650-658. DOI: 10.1016/S2214-109X (18)30184-0.