S. Akhtar
@sn_akhtar
Statistician, Demographer and Public Health Researcher 🐈 Research fellow at Centre for Research on Ageing, University of Southampton🏴 🤍🪬🌈
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https://www.southampton.ac.uk/people/62dzwm/doctor-saddaf-naaz-akhtar 13-04-2019 20:58:17
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I love this paper and special congrats to Jesús-Adrián Álvarez on pulling this one!! I’m sure Jim would’ve loved the final outcome. Felicidades amigo!
My opinion piece on Census The Indian Express "The Census is necessary since it forms the basis of all the plans and programs that the government wants to implement. Postponing the Census has immediate and long-term negative consequences for India" Spokesperson, Ministry of Home Affairs
Professor Nandita Saikia and Team published a research article in the Bulletin of the World Health Organisation, "Death registration coverage 2019–2021, India" Professor Nandita Saikia Prof Nandita Saikia ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/.../pdf/BLT.22…
Paper is out 🎉 Supporting the sponge hypothesis, a clear gender gap was observed in poor current SRH and worse change in SRH among older adults in India with female disadvantage. journals.plos.org/plosone/articl… #SRH #gender #NSSO Prof Nandita Saikia International Institute for Population Sciences Ben-Gurion University of the Negev Ministry of Health
The higher prevalence of undiagnosed and uncontrolled heart disease and their risk factors among middle-aged and older Indians manifest alarming public health concerns and future health demand. University of Southampton International Institute for Population Sciences Ministry of Health World Health Organization (WHO) journals.plos.org/plosone/articl…
And this is the dream team of our Economic and Social Research Council pensions project, meeting today with the amazing CitizensAdvice Southampton: Yuanyuan Yin, Saddaf Akhtar and Spela Mocnik. Connecting Generations Ageing Southampton UoS Faculty of Social Sciences University of Southampton
The COVID-19 pandemic death toll in India: can we know better? gh.bmj.com/content/8/8/e0… Input data for previous models were limited by various sources of bias The 2021 CRS report offers potential to improve our understanding of what had happened, and for the future Ministry of Health
Akhtar, S.N., Saikia, N. (2023). Economic Dependency, Chronic Illness, and Insurance Coverage Among the Elderly. In: Handbook of Aging, Health and Public Policy. Springer, Singapore. doi.org/10.1007/978-98… Prof Nandita Saikia International Institute for Population Sciences Ben-Gurion University of the Negev Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) Ministry of Health
Delighted to be at the private view for the Economic and Social Research Council project on building financial resilience in later life University of Southampton