PhD in Population Studies, International Institute for Population Sciences, Mumbai
Mortality, longevity and Disability status
Forecasting & projection
Health inequalities
Quality of large data
Unauthorised immigration
Assistant Professor in Centre for the Study of Regional Development since 31st October 2013
Assistant Professor in Population Research Centre, Institute of Economic Growth from 1st July 2011 to 30th September 2013
Special Awards
Best paper award in 2nd round of Data-Q-Thon for the article “Assessment of NSSO data on morbidity: Is incidence appropriate for estimation of the burden of disease” organized by National Data Quality Forum (ICMR & Population Council) by Shewli Shabnam & Nandita Saikia, 2020.
RSSS Visiting fellow award by Australian National University, Australia for one and half-months in 2020-2021.
Best paper award for the co-authored paper “Education or Economic Status? Compare their relative effect on prime-age adult death in India using longitudinal Survey” (by Moradhvaj, Nandita Saikia & Wolfgang Lutz) in The Second Asian Population Forum Organised by ADRI, Shanghai University 11-12 October, Shanghai, China.
Awarded early career “Queen Elizabeth Advanced Scholar” fellowship by Statistical Alliance for Vital Events (QES-SAVE), University of Toronto, Canada, 2019-2020.
Awarded Post-doctoral fellowship at International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA), Vienna during August 2017-August 2019.
Member of International Union for Scientific Study of Population (IUSSP), a Scientific panel on “Lifespan Extension with Varying Cause-of-death Trajectories”, 2015-2018.
Awarded Prof P N Mari Bhat Gold Medal for the best Ph.D. thesis for the period 2011-2014 by International Institute for Population Sciences, Mumbai.
Awarded Raja Rao Memorial award from Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata, 2014, for the best research done in the area of Demography in the form of published articles or Ph.D. thesis.
Awarded Max Planck-India fellowship, Max Planck Society, Germany, for collaborative demographic research with scientists from Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, Germany 2012-2015.
Awarded Prof KB Pathak Award from Indian Association of Study of Population (IASP), for the article “Trends and geographic Differentials in mortality under age 60 in India” (published in Population Studies) for methodological innovation in the field of Population and Health, 2011.
The government of India and UGC Fellowship for pursuing Ph.D. Course in International Institute for Population Sciences from 9 May 2007 to 9 December 2010.
Silver Medal Winner in Master in Population Studies, 2005-2006, IIPS, Mumbai.
The government of India Fellowship for pursuing MPS/M Phil Course in International Institute for Population Sciences from 11 July 2005 to 31 December 2006.
International Travel Awards
Travel grant to participate in the international seminar on “Lifespan Extension with Varying Cause-of-death Trajectories in European Societies”, 11-13 February 2019 in Rauischholzhausen castle (Hessen), Germany, Organised by IUSSP Scientific Panel on Lifespan extension with varying cause-of-death Trajectories.
Travel grant to attend the workshop “Family life courses, intergenerational exchanges and later-life health”, 28-29th June 2018 organized by London School of Economics and Political Science, London at Cumberland Lodge, Windsor Great Park, UK
IUSSP’s travel grant to participate in 26th (in Morocco, Marrakesh, 2009) and 27th (in Busan, South Korea, 2013) & 28th (Cape Town, South Africa, 2017) conferences of IUSSP.
Awarded Population Association of America’s young scientist travel grant to attend PAA Conference held on 27-29 April 2017, Chicago, USA.
Awarded ICSSR-Fondation Maison des Sciences de l’Homme visiting fellowship for one month at Institut de recherche pour le development (IRD), Paris, French September 2016.
Junior Demographer Travel Grant awarded by IUSSP to attend the International Seminar on “Promoting Postpartum and Post-abortion Family Planning: Challenges and Opportunities”, Cochin, India on 11-13 November 2014.
Visiting scholarship from John Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Maryland, USA 4-6th May 2014.
Awarded Population Association of America (PAA)’s young scientist travel grant to attend PAA Conference held in 1-3 May 2014, Boston, USA.
Awarded Max Planck-India fellowship, Max Planck Society, Germany, for collaborative demographic research with scientists from Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, Germany 2012-2015.
Awarded visiting scholar/Guest researcher/summer school participants/winter school participant by Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, Germany for 4 times during 2008-2011.
Junior Demographer Travel Grant awarded by IUSSP to attend the International Seminar “Emergence of Social Differences in Mortality Time Trends Causes and Reactions”, Alghero, Italy in 29-30 May 2008.
Australian National University, Australia
Centre for Global Health Research, University of Toronto, Canada
International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA), Vienna
CEPED research unit (Paris Descartes-Ined-IRD)
Collaboration with Scientists from Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, Rostock, Germany
Collaboration with Scientists from Institut National d`etudes Demo- graphiques (INED), Paris, French
Collaboration with Scientists from John Hopkins Bloomberg School of School of Public Health, Maryland, USA
Collaboration with Scientists from Vienna Institute of Demography, Vienna, Austria
- Guilmoto, CZ, Saikia, N. Tamrakar, V. and Bora, J.K. (2018). Excess female under-five deaths in India: estimates, regional distribution and socioeconomic correlates. Lancet Global Health: Publisher: Elsevier: https://www.thelancet.com/journals/langlo/article/PIIS2214-109X(18)301840/fulltext
- Saikia, N., Moradhvaj, Saha, A. and Chutia, U. (2019). Actual and ideal fertility differential among natives, immigrants, and descendants of immigrants in a northeastern state of India. Population, Space, and Place. Publisher: Wiley. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/psp.2238. https://doi.org/10.1002/psp.2238
- Saikia, N., Moradhvaj and Bora, J.K. (2016). Gender Difference in Health-Care Expenditure: Evidence from India Human Development Survey. PLoS ONE 11(7): e0158332. doi:10.1371/journal. pone.0158332 , Publisher: Public Library of Science. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4938214/
- Saikia, N., Singh, A., Jasilionis, D. and Ram, F. (2013). “Explaining the trends in rural-urban gap in infant mortality in India” Demographic Research 29(18):473-506, Publisher: Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, Germany. http://demographicresearch.org/volumes/vol29/18/default.htm
- Saikia, N., Jasilionis, D., Ram, F. and Shkolnikov, V. (2011) “Trends and geographic differentials in mortality under age 60 in India” Population Studies 65(1):73-89. DOI: 10.1080/00324728.2010.534642; Publisher: Routledge: Taylor & Francis Group. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21240833
- Saikia, N.,Saha, A., Bora, J.K. and Joe, W. (2020). "Immigration and Bengali population in Assam: Evidence from Direct and Indirect Demographic Estimation" in Population Dynamics in Eastern India and Bangladesh, Springer Publication, by Chattopadhyay, Aparajita, Ghosh, Saswata (Eds.) :https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-981-15-3045-6_23
- Boro, B. and Saikia, N. (2020). A qualitative study of the barriers to utilizing health-care services among the tribal population in Assam. Plosone. Publisher: Public Library of Science. https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0240096
- Baruah S., Saikia. N. and Sk, R. (2020). Spatial Pattern and determinants of diagnosed Diabetes in Southern India: Evidence from a population-based survey. Journal of Biosocial Science Publisher: Cambridge University press. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0021932020000449