0000-0002-9735-3042 About
Jayanta Bora has been a Trained Statistician, Demographer & Public Health Expert, and working as a Founding & Executive Director at VART, Delhi-NCR. His research interests mainly focus on monitoring and evaluation, big data analysis, child health and mortality, education and fertility, and social and regional inequality in health and education. He was also associated as a researcher with the University of Economics and Business (WU), Wittgenstein Centre for Demography and Global Human Capital (IIASA, VID/ÖAW, WU), Vienna, and International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA), Austria, since August 2017 to June 2019.
He has extensive and diverse experience in working with the organizations like IIPS, PHFI with more extensive development projects such as Reproductive and Child Health Care (DLHS 2&3), HIV/AIDS intervention program with the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, India, WHO Global Ageing and Adult Health Study (SAGE), etc. He also worked for organizations like TNS International, AON, and various social and market research projects. He offered technical assistance to the organization and have experience in dealing with the stakeholders. In most cases, he has been been involved in research, M&E, data processing, advanced statistical analysis, and development of report. He also has experience in large-scale data handling, design M&E toolkit. He also offer as a resource person in various soft skill and capacity building training and research program. Besides, he has more than 20 academic research papers published in peer-reviewed national and international journals (Lancet Global Health, PlosOne, Genus, Spatial Demography, Health and Place, Journal of Social Inclusion Studies, Population, Health and Development), working papers (VID Working Paper, IIASA working paper, JNU working paper), and attended several national and international conferences and seminars. He also offers an academic reviewer in many leading international journals from time to time.
Employment
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VART Consulting(P) LTD Executive Director2019 - Present
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Publications (24)
- Hypertension screening across different age groups in Indian adults: Evidence from nationally representative cross-sectional data Save
- Prevalence and risk factors of violence against adolescents: Evidence from the two most populous and socio-economically disadvantaged states of India Save
- Levels, Trends and Determinants of Tobacco Quitting Behaviour in India: Findings from Two Consecutive Nationally Representative Surveys Save
- Pestilent relationship between smoking and hypertension or pulse pressure among males over 15 years in India: NFHS-5 Survey Save
- What Determines the District-Level Disparities in Immunization Coverage in India: Findings from Five Rounds of the National Family Health Survey Save
- Female Under-Five Mortality in India Save
- Revisiting the causes of fertility decline in Bangladesh: the relative importance of female education and family planning programs Save
- Trends in missing females at birth in India from 1981 to 2016: analyses of 2·1 million birth histories in nationally representative surveys Save
- Monsoon weather and early childhood health in India Save
- Under-Five Child Growth and Nutrition Status: Spatial Clustering of Indian Districts Save