Abhishek Singh

Dr. Abhishek Singh is a Professor in the Department of Public Health and Mortality Studies at the International Institute for Population Sciences (IIPS), Mumbai India. He has published over 125 research papers in peer-reviewed journals. Dr. Singh’s research interests include mortality analysis, health inequalities, maternal and child health, large-scale survey research, and gender issues in population, health, and development. He played a key role in the design and implementation of NFHS-4 (2015-16) and NFHS-6 (2024). In 2008, Dr. Singh served as a visiting faculty member and Gates Scholar at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. During the 2011-2012 academic year, he was awarded the prestigious Leverhulme Fellowship to collaborate with faculty and students at the School of Health Sciences and Social Care, University of Portsmouth, United Kingdom. Dr. Singh currently leads the GENDER project, a collaborative initiative between IIPS and the University of California San Diego, funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.