Sayeed Unisa
Former Professor, International Institute For Population Sciences
sayeed.unisa@iipsindia.ac.in
Professor Sayeed Unisa is a distinguished demographer and biostatistician who served as Professor and Head of the Department of Biostatistics and Epidemiology at the International Institute for Population Sciences (IIPS) in Mumbai for more than three decades. She has been a Visiting Professor at the International Institute of Social Studies, The Hague, and Adjunct Professor at TISS, Mumbai, and currently serves as an ICSSR Senior Fellow at DY Patil University, Mumbai.
A Fellow of the Royal Statistical Society, London, Professor Unisa has mentored 25 PhD scholars and led over 20 large-scale studies funded by UNICEF, WHO, the World Bank, and the Government of India. Her portfolio includes six books and over 117 peer-reviewed articles on infertility, nutrition, maternal and child health, and gender. She has contributed to policy across multiple Indian ministries and received several awards, including the prestigious Royan International Research Award for infertility research.
Rozee G.V. and Sayeed Unisa(eds) (2016) Assisted Reproductive Technologies in the Global South and North: Issues, Challenges and Future, Routledge, London. F.Ram, Sayeed Unisa and T.V. Sekhar (2011). Population, Gender and Reproductive Health, IIPS and Rawat Publications, Jaipur. Unisa, S., Dhillon, P., Anand, E., Sahoo, H., & Agarwal, P. K.(2022). Data quality of birthweight reporting in India: Evidence from cross-sectional surveys and service statistics. Social Science and Medicine-Population Health, https://doi.org/10.1016/ j.ssmph.2022.101220 Dhillon, P., Unisa, S., Gupta, A., Saraswat, A., Sulaiman KM, and Pedgaonka, S., (2023) Utilisation of ANC services before and after the COVID-19 pandemic in selected resource-poor blocks of India: role of community health workers in Swabhimaan programme area, BMC Health Services Research, https://doi.org/10.1186/s12913-023-09781-1 Unisa, Sayeed. (1999). Childlessness in Andhra Pradesh, India: treatment-seeking and consequences. Reproductive Health Matters Vol. 7(13). pp. 54- 64
May 2009 to July 2009 -Visiting Professor, International Institute of Social Studies, The Hague, The Netherlands
1991-Royan International Award for the community-based study on infertility in Andhra Pradesh, India.
IRB member of RTI, IIHMR, MGM, Mumbai
2021 and 2013 Chairperson of IUSSP Session on Correlates of Infertility and Assisted Reproduction
2019- to date Advisory Committee Member -‘Centre of Excellence (CoE)’ on Public Health Nutrition (PHN) with the support of UNICEF
2018-2019 TAG member of CES, MoHFW and UNICEF
2017 Review Committee Member of Population Research Centers, Ministry of Health and Family Welfare
2017-18 Advisory Panel Member of NCEAR National Data Invention Center, NCEAR
2017-18 Programme Committee Member of Centre for Excellence on Adolescents and Youth, TISS and UNFPA
2012-17 Technical Advisory Member of Indian Human Development Survey, NCEAR