I am a demographer by training with an interest in population dynamics and its implications for public health, nutritional inequalities, and its social determinants, demographics of gender and regional developmental issues in developing countries in general and India in particular. Currently, I am an Associate Professor at International Institute for Population Sciences (IIPS), Mumbai. Before joining IIPS, I was a former  Australia India Institute (AII) NGN Research Fellow at UWA Public Policy Institute, and also an Assistant Professor in Population Studies at the Centre for the Studies in Regional Development, School of Social Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. I was a visiting faculty at the University of Gottingen.