Dr. Nandita Saikia is Assistant Professor of Population Studies at the Centre for Study of Regional Development, with six years of experience in teaching and research. Prior to this, Dr Saikia served as an assistant professor at the Institute of Economic Growth in Delhi. Dr. Saikia has written peer-reviewed research papers in internationally reputed journals in the area of population and health. She has also contributed chapters to several edited books. She has been guiding MPhil and PhD students at CSRD, JNU. Dr. Saikia has received a number of prestigious awards such as the Raja Rao Memorial award from Kolkata's Indian Statistical Institute, in 2014; Prof. P N Mari Bhat Gold Medal from IIPS, Mumbai in 2011; and Prof. K B Pathak Award from the Indian Association of Study of Population. She has also been awarded various scholarships such as the Max Planck-India fellowship, from the Max Planck Society, Germany, in 2012-2016; and visiting scholarships in Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research in Germany, Institut National d'etudes Demo-graphiques (INED) in Paris, Vienna Institute for Demographic Research, and John Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. Currently, she is a member of the IUSSP expert panel in Lifespan Extension with Varying Cause-of-death Trajectories. Her research interests include health and mortality, migration, and disability.
