Faculty

Specialization (Qualification): Population Studies

Areas of Specialization: Population health, maternal and child nutrition, health economics

Interest Areas: Maternal and Child health and nutrition, Data quality assessment, Econometrics, Mathematical demography, Multivariate modelling, Multilevel modelling, Public health, Spatial analysis.

Experience:

Research:

Publications:

1. Jana, A., Banerjee, K., & Khan, P. K. (2022). Early arrivals: association of maternal obstetric factors with preterm births and their survival in India. Public Health, 211, 37–46. https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1016/j.puhe.2022.07.005
2. Dwivedi, L. K., Banerjee, K., Sharma, R., Mishra, R., Ramesh, S., Sahu, D., Mohanty, Sanjay K., & James, K. S. (2022). Quality of Anthropometric Data in India’s National Family Health Survey: Disentangling Interviewer and Area Effect Using a Cross-Classified Multilevel Model. SSM - Population Health, 19, 101253. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ssmph.2022.101253 (Accepted, In press)

3. Sharma, R., Dwivedi, L. K., Mishra, R., Banerjee, K., Mahapatra, B., Sahu, D., & Singh, S. K. (2022). Survey Implementation Process and Interviewer Effects on Skipping Sequence of Maternal and Child Health indicators from National Family Health survey: An application of Cross-Classified Multilevel Model. SSM - Population Health, 19, 101252. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ssmph.2022.101252 (Accepted, In press)

4. Mohanty, S.K., Singh, S.K., Sharma, S.K., Banerjee, K., Acharya, R.(2022). Asset and consumption gradient of health estimates in India: Implications for survey and public health research. SSM - Population Health, 19, 101258. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ssmph.2022.101258

5. Chanda, S., Banerjee, K. (2022) Association of Financial Stress and Cognitive Health: A Comparative Study Among Older Adults in India and China. In: Rajan S.I. (eds) Handbook of Aging, Health and Public Policy. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-16-1914-4_28-1
6. Bhatia, M., Dwivedi, L. K., Banerjee, K., Bansal, A., Ranjan, M., & Dixit, P. (2021). Pro-poor policies and improvements in maternal health outcomes in India. BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth, 21(389), 1–13. https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1186/s12884-021-03839-w (URL: https://rdcu.be/ckW7L%0A%0A )
7. Bhatia, M., Dwivedi, L. K., Banerjee, K., & Dixit, P. (2020). An epidemic of avoidable caesarean deliveries in the private sector in India: Is physician-induced demand at play? Social Science and Medicine, 265 (November), 113511. https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2020.113511
8. Banerjee, K., & Dwivedi, L. K. (2020). Disparity in childhood stunting in India : Relative importance of community-level nutrition and sanitary practices. PLoS ONE, 15(9), 1–21. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0238364 (URL: https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0238364 )

9. Bhatia, M., Banerjee, K., Dixit, P., & Dwivedi, L. K. (2020). Assessment of Variation in Cesarean Delivery Rates Between Public and Private Health Facilities in India From 2005 to 2016. JAMA Network Open, 3(8), e2015022. https://doi.org/10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2020.15022 (URL: https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamanetworkopen/fullarticle/2769914)

10. Banerjee, K., Dwivedi, L.K. (2020). Inequality in childhood stunting among the Bengali speaking population in India and Bangladesh. In Aparajita Chattopadhyay and Saswata Ghosh (eds.), Population Dynamics in Eastern India and Bangladesh: Demographic, Health and Developmental Issues (Chap 18, Part VI Undernutrition: Policy priority?). Springer. https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007%2F978-981-15-3045-6 (URL: https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-981-15-3045-6_18)

11. Banerjee, K., Dwivedi, L.K. (2019). Linkage in stunting status of siblings: a new perspective on childhood undernutrition in India. Journal of Biosocial Science. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0021932019000725
12. Banerjee, K., Chanda, S., Dwivedi, L. K. (2019). Temporal decomposition of life years lived with disability in India: a growing demographic concern. BMC Public Health, 19(966). https://doi.org/10.1186/s12889-019-7057-x
13. Dwivedi, L. K., Banerjee, K., Jain, N., Ranjan, M., Dixit, P. (2018). Child Health and Unhealthy Sanitary Practices in India: Evidence from Recent Round of National Family Health Survey-IV. SSM - Population Health. https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ssmph.2018.10.013

14. Khan, P. K., Banerjee, K., Nandi, S. (2019). Reproductive health care utilization and primary health care infrastructure in rural India: a district level analysis. In S. K. Mohanty, U. S. Mishra & R. K. Chauhan (Eds.), The Demographic and Development Divide in India (Chap 8). Springer.
15. Banerjee, K., & Dwivedi, L. K. (2018). Impact of Proxy Response on Health Reporting among the Elderly in India. Social Development Issues, 40(1), 17–32.
16. Ghosh, A., Banerjee, K., & Ghosh, S. (2018). Economic Inequality in utilization of Maternal and Child Health Care in EAG states in India – Findings from NFHS-4. In A. Brahmachari & S. Ghosh (Eds.), New Directions for Evaluations: Visibility, Voice and value (pp. 63 – 74). Daya Publishing House® A Division of Astral International Pvt. Ltd,.
17. Banerjee, K., & Dwivedi, L. K. (2016). The burden of infectious and cardiovascular diseases in India from 2004 to 2014. Epidemiology and Health, 38. https://doi.org/10.4178/epih.e2016057
18. Banerjee, K., & Dwivedi, L. K. (2015). Evidences of Reporting Heterogeneity Among the Senior Citizens of India. Demography India, 44, 970–454.

Publications and Research papers presented:

Conferences / Workshops / Seminars attended: 

• Presented research paper on “Data quality of childhood stunting in National Family Health Survey, 2015-16” at National Data Quality Forum held at ICMR, New Delhi. The paper was awarded 1st position in Data-Q-Thon organized by Population Council, ICMR and NIMS.
• Research paper entitled “Is Disease Environment a Major Driver of Regional Heterogeneity in Childhood Stunting in India?” presented at Jawaharlal Nehru University, IASSH, 2018.
• Research paper entitled “Discordance between objective and subjective health report among senior citizens of India” has been presented at 4^th Asian Population Association Conference, 2018, Shanghai, China.
• Research paper entitled “Rethinking policies to combat child malnourishment: Does socio-economic disparity override state-dependence of childhood stunting in India?” has been presented at 4^th Asian Population Association Conference, 2018, Shanghai, China.
• Research paper entitled “Assessing the reporting heterogeneity of health among the Indian elderly: Is it truly as bad as they report?” presented at XXVIII IUSSP International Population Conference, 2017 in Cape Town, South Africa.
• Poster entitled “Spatio-temporal trends in malnourishment clustering among under-five siblings from 1992 to 2016: The Indian Paradox” presented at XXVIII IUSSP International Population Conference, 2017 in Cape Town, South Africa.
• Research paper entitled “Situational Analysis of Communicable Versus Non- Communicable Diseases in the Decade 2004-2014: Is the Burden Still Double in India?” presented as oral presentation at the Annual Conference organized by Population Association of America, 2016 held at Washington DC,
• Presented poster entitled “Assessing the disability-free life expectancy and decomposition of its difference: A study on India over the decade 2001-2011” at the Annual Conference organized by Population Association of America, 2016 held at Washington DC,
• Poster entitled “Evidences of reporting heterogeneity among the senior citizens of India” has been presented at Annual Conference organized by Population Association of America, 2016 held at Washington DC,
• Research paper entitled “Situational alteration of infectious and cardio-vascular diseases in India from 2004 to 2014” has been presented in Indian Association for the Study of Population (IASP) Annual Conference held at New Delhi, 2016.
• Research paper entitled “Assessing the proxy and self-response bias in disease reporting among elderly in India” has been presented in Indian Association for Social Sciences and Health (IASSH) held at Kerala, 2015.
• Presented research paper entitled “Health expectancy measure of India and its bigger states: A decadal study from 2001 to 2011” at IASSH held at Lucknow, 2014.

Academic activities:

Awards:

• Won a Research Grant for writing a scientific publication on ‘Financial insecurity, mental health and malnourishment among adults in a work-retirement transition phase in India’ based on LASI (Longitudinal Ageing Study in India) data in 2021. Currently we are in the process of preparing the manuscript.
• Awarded 1^st position in Data-Q-Thon for paper on “Data quality of childhood stunting in National Family Health Survey, 2015-16”. The contest was held during March-May, 2019 and organized by Population Council, ICMR and NIMS.
• Awarded the “Youth best paper award” by Indian Association of Social Sciences and Health for research paper entitled “Assessing the proxy and self-response biasedness in disease reporting among the elderly in India” in 2015
• Awarded P. N. Mari Bhat Gold Medal for Best Dissertation in Master of Philosophy in Population Studies, 2014-2015 by IIPS, Mumbai
• Awarded IIPS Gold Medal for securing first rank in Master of Philosophy in Population Studies, 2014-2015 by IIPS, Mumbai
• Awarded the Asha Bhende Gold Medal for securing first rank in the Master of Science in Population Studies, 2012-14 by IIPS, Mumbai
• Qualified UGC-NET for Junior Research Fellowship (JRF) in Population Studies held on 29th December, 2013

Management Development Programs:

Coursera MOOC courses:

1. The Data Scientist’s toolbox (Johns Hopkins University)
2. The Finance of Climate Change (EDHEC Business School)
3. Science and Engineering of Climate Change (EDHEC Business School)

Professional Memberships:

Editorial Board Membership:

Recent Publications:

1. Jana, A., Banerjee, K., & Khan, P. K. (2022). Early arrivals: association of maternal obstetric factors with preterm births and their survival in India. Public Health, 211, 37–46. https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1016/j.puhe.2022.07.005
2. Dwivedi, L. K., Banerjee, K., Sharma, R., Mishra, R., Ramesh, S., Sahu, D., Mohanty, Sanjay K., & James, K. S. (2022). Quality of Anthropometric Data in India’s National Family Health Survey: Disentangling Interviewer and Area Effect Using a Cross-Classified Multilevel Model. SSM - Population Health, 19, 101253. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ssmph.2022.101253 (Accepted, In press)

3. Sharma, R., Dwivedi, L. K., Mishra, R., Banerjee, K., Mahapatra, B., Sahu, D., & Singh, S. K. (2022). Survey Implementation Process and Interviewer Effects on Skipping Sequence of Maternal and Child Health indicators from National Family Health survey: An application of Cross-Classified Multilevel Model. SSM - Population Health, 19, 101252. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ssmph.2022.101252 (Accepted, In press)

4. Mohanty, S.K., Singh, S.K., Sharma, S.K., Banerjee, K., Acharya, R.(2022). Asset and consumption gradient of health estimates in India: Implications for survey and public health research. SSM - Population Health, 19, 101258. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ssmph.2022.101258

5. Chanda, S., Banerjee, K. (2022) Association of Financial Stress and Cognitive Health: A Comparative Study Among Older Adults in India and China. In: Rajan S.I. (eds) Handbook of Aging, Health and Public Policy. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-16-1914-4_28-1