Ms. Pooja Arora is a doctoral scholar at the Department of Survey Research and Data Analytics, International Institute for Population Sciences, Mumbai, India. She completed her Master of Philosophy in Population Studies from the same institute in 2019, a Master’s in Statistics from Amity University, Noida, India, in 2016, and a Bachelor of Statistics from the University of Delhi, India, in 2014. Her research interests include nutrition, maternal and child health, mortality, and data quality. She is a member of the International Union for the Scientific Study of Population (IUSSP), the Nutrition Society of India (NSI), and the IIPS Alumni Association (IIPSAA). She has worked in different international not-for-profit organisations and contributed to maternal and child health projects.

Dr. Mrigesh Bhatia is an Assistant Professor in Healthy Policy. He is a medical graduate with an MD in Preventive and Social Medicine (Bombay) and a PhD in Health Economics from the University of London. His previous teaching experience was in India, first as a lecturer at Seth G S Medical College and KEM Hospital, Bombay, and subsequently as a reader in the Department of Health Services Studies, Tata Institute of Social Sciences. Dr. Bhatia was a post-doctoral fellow in the Population Dynamics Department of Johns Hopkins School of Public Health, Baltimore, USA; Honorary Lecturer at London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine; Advisory Committee member of the National STD Control Program, India; Member of the Direction Co-ordination Committee of the Malaria Control and Research Project, India; and consultant to various international organisations.

Dr. Laxmi Kant Dwivedi, PhD, is a Professor and Head of the Department of Survey Research & Data Analytics at the International Institute for Population Sciences (IIPS), Mumbai, India. He earned his PhD in Population Studies from IIPS, following an M.Phil. in Population Studies from the same institute and an M.Sc. in Statistics from Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi. Dr. Dwivedi has played a key role as the principal investigator in the fourth and fifth rounds of the National Family Health Survey (NFHS) and is currently leading the sixth round, funded by the Government of India. His research expertise spans demographic models, applied econometrics, applied multivariate analysis, impact evaluation, and large-scale survey research methods in demography and health. With over a hundred research publications in reputed national and international journals, Dr. Dwivedi has made significant contributions to population and health research. He was awarded a post-doctoral fellowship under the Erasmus Mundus Europe Asia program, coordinated by Lund University, Sweden. His academic excellence has been recognised through multiple awards, and he has represented his work in several countries.