JAYANTA KUMAR BASU

Student
UNESCAP/UNICEF Project (CRVS)

jayanta14@yahoo.com

Field of Study: Demography, Population and Development, Statistics
 
Specialization: Age and Sex Structure, Ageing, Applied Demography, Business Demography, Children and Youth, Data Collection and Processing, Fertility, Gender Roles-Differentials, HIV/AIDS and STI's, Household and Housing, Income, Poverty and Welfare, Population and Development, Population and Environment, Reproductive Health (Family Planning), Social Demography, Urbanization
 
Regional focus: Sub-Saharan Africa, Southeast Asia, East Asia
 
Degree currently pursued: Doctorate (Ph.D, or MD), , Population and Development, 2011
 
Working languages: English
Hindi
 
Other association membership in population or related fields: Asian Population Association (APA)
Indian Association for the Study of Population (IASP)


Curriculum Vitae:
Resume'_ Jayanta Kumar Basu_ 2021.pdf
Professional web page:
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Professional Summary:

 I am Fellow in Civil Registration and Vital Statistics (CRVS) from Melbourne School of Population and Global Health (Bloomberg Data for Health Initiatives; Global Burden of Disease Group), The University of Melbourne, Australia. I am also Doctorate in Population Studies and did my Post Graduation in Statistics and Post Graduate Diploma in Population Studies from International Institute for Population Sciences (IIPS), Mumbai, India. I have 30+ years  of  experiences  in Civil Registration and Vital Statistics (CRVS),  Social Research and  Monitoring  &  Evaluation (M&E) of the development programmes with the International and National level development organisations  and  reputed research agencies. I authored several research reports and published research papers/articles in peer reviewed international and national journals and chapters in edited books. I also presented research papers in several National and International conferences. 

 

Publications:

1.   “Have inequalities in completeness of death registration between states in India narrowed during two decades of civil registration system strengthening?” First Author, International Journal for Equity in Health, Basu and Adair Int J Equity Health (2021) 20:195 (https://doi.org/10.1186/s12939-021-01534-y)

2.  "Counting COVID-19 deaths in India” (Blog), CRVS Knowledge Gateway, Bloomberg Data for Health Initiatives", The University of Melbourne, Australia, May 15, 2020 (https://crvsgateway.info/India-fellow-blog-COVID)

3.  “Determinants of Intimate Partner Violence (IPV) in Bihar, India – Experiences from District Level SWASTH Survey (DLSS 2015-16)”, Author, Demography India (ISSN: 0970-454X), Special Issue (December 2017), pp: 36-49

4.  “Determinants of Intimate Partner Violence (IPV) among poorest and socially excluded rural women in Bihar, India – Experiences from District level SWASTH Survey (DLSS 2015-16)”, Author, IER Journal of Health and Demography (ISSN:2454-9207), Volume 3, Number 2, Page 68, January 2018

5. “High risk behavior among injecting drug users in Mumbai, India – Time to Upscale Interventions”; Author,     Population, Gender and Reproductive Health, Edited by F.Ram, Syeed Unisa, T.V.Sekher, IIPS, Mumbai, Rawat Publication, New Delhi, 2010.

 

 

 
Honorary or professional positions and awards:
 
-Life member of Indian Association for the study of Population (IASP) (elected Member of Executive Committee 2016-18 and Coordinator for Eastern and NE region of India)

- Life member of Indian Association of Social Science and Health (IASSH) and elected in the Executive Committee for the year 2017-2019
Research grants:
Awarded Fellowship by Govt. of Australia and Bloomberg Philanthropies to pursue Research in Civil Registration and Vital Statistics (CRVS) at Melbourne School of Population and Global Health (Bloomberg Data for Health Initiatives, Global Burden of Disease Group), The University of Melbourne, Australia in February-March 2020.