Abhishek Singh

Dr. Abhishek Singh, is a Professor in the Department of Public Health and Mortality Studies at the International Institute for Population Sciences (IIPS), Mumbai India. Dr. Singh has published more than 100 research papers in peer-reviewed national/international journals. Dr. Singh’s areas of interest are mortality analysis (including maternal mortality), maternal and child health, gender issues, designing, implementing, and analyzing large-scale surveys, etc. Dr. Singh was instrumental in designing and implementing NFHS-4 (2015-16). Dr. Singh was visiting faculty as a Gates Scholar at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and, during the 2011-2012 academic year, was a recipient of the prestigious Leverhulme Fellowship to collaborate on research with faculty and students of the School of Health Sciences and Social Care University of Portsmouth UK. Dr. Singh is currently heading the Centre of Demography of Gender at IIPS and leading the GENDER project.