Jalandhar Pradhan
National Institute of Technology Rourkela, International Institute for Population Sciences
0000-0001-5998-0363
About
Dr. Jalandhar Pradhan is working as a Professor, Health Economics in the Dept. of Humanities and Social Sciences, NIT Rourkela. He received his PhD in Population Studies from International Institute for Population Sciences (IIPS), Mumbai. He did his Postdoctoral research work from Netherlands Interdisciplinary Demographic Institute (NIDI), The Netherlands in the areas of healthcare financing. Presently, he is leading a Centre of Excellence on Public Health Nutrition at NIT, Rourkela in collaboration with UNICEF. The center serves as a platform for collaborative research and knowledge sharing activities among the different research groups, planner and policy makers in the areas of public health nutrition and food security. He has published more than 60 scientific research articles at the international reviewed journals like Lancet, Health Policy and Planning, Health Policy, Health Economics Review, Plos ONE, BMC Public Health and International Journal for Equity in Health etc. Under his guidance, 10 students have successfully completed their PhDs, and he is currently mentoring 11 more aspiring scholars. He has also been involved in the study design, analysis and report writing of large scale national level surveys like Indian Demographic Health Survey, Coverage Evaluation Survey, District Level Household Survey, World Health Survey (WHS), Study on Global Ageing and Adult Health (SAGE). His research interests include health economics and public policy, climate change and health, economic impact of non-communicable diseases, health and nutrition inequality, demography, ageing and health, maternal and child health, healthcare financing, nutrition economics, poverty, inequality and human development, and health analytics. Also, he is in the editorial board of journals like PloS ONE, BMC Public Health, Journal of Health, Population and Nutrition and Discover Public Health.
Employment
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National Institute of Technology Rourkela Professor2023 - Present
Education
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International Institute for Population Sciences PhD2005 - 2009
Projects & Funding
Projects & funding information is unavailable.
Publications (63)
- Shaping like the tide: assessing the nonlinear association between agricultural imports and food security in East European countries Save
- Performance analysis and science mapping on the effect of air pollution on child health: a bibliometric study from 2003–2023 Save
- Spatial evidence-based study on cardiometabolic risk among Indian adults Save
- Beyond household and individual factors: examining the association between ambient air pollution and birth outcomes in India Save
- Regional Heterogeneities and Socio-economic Determinants of Childhood Undernutrition in India: A Geospatial Analysis Save
- Burden of non-communicable diseases in South Asia: a decomposition analysis Save
- Forecasting the effects of smoking prevalence scenarios on years of life lost and life expectancy from 2022 to 2050: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2021 Save
- Navigating food security in India: unravelling the interplay of climatic and non-climatic factors Save
- Global burden and strength of evidence for 88 risk factors in 204 countries and 811 subnational locations, 1990–2021: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2021 Save
- Burden of disease scenarios for 204 countries and territories, 2022–2050: a forecasting analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2021 Save