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Curriculum Vitae RACHANA PATEL Ph.D., M. Phil. Mobile: +91-9582431105 E-mail: [email protected] Summary Profile

● More than 7 years research experiences in public health issues. Rigorously involved in research design, sampling and implementation using varied econometrical and statistical techniques to derive conclusions conceptualize and deliver effective outputs based on data. ● Trained statistician with expertise in quantitative skills using windows, excel as well as sophisticated analytical software like SPSS, STATA, ML-Win, GeoDa and R. Educational Qualification

 2015 PhD (Population Studies), IIPS  2009 MPhil (Population Studies), IIPS  2007 Post-Graduate in Statistics, BHU  2004 Under graduate (Statistics Hons., additional: Economics and Mathematics), BHU Areas of Interest  Population Dynamics and Econometrics  Public Health (Mother and Child Health/Nutrition)  Program Evaluation (MLE) Language proficiency English, Hindi

Research Publication(s)  Enisha Sarin, Subir S Kole, Rachana Patel et al. (2017) Evaluation of a quality improvement intervention for obstetric and neonatal care in selected public health facilities across six states of India. J of BMC Preg and Childbirth. ( DOI: 10.1186/s12884-017-1318-4)  Rachana Patel and Laishram Ladusingh (2015) Do physical proximity and availability of adequate infrastructure at public health facility increase institutional delivery? A three level hierarchical model approach. PlosOne (doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0144352)  Rachana Patel and Sayeed Unisa (2014) Construction of National Standards of Growth Curves of Height and Weight for Children using Cross-Sectional Data. Indian Journal of Public Health (http://www.ijph.in/text.asp?2014/58/2/92/132281)  Rachana Patel (2010) Fitting of New Standard Growth Curves of Children Nutritional Status. Lambert Publication, Germany. ISBN: 978-3-8484-0077-5 Working papers:

1 Rachana Patel  “Impact of distance, maternal care programs and type of health institution on out of pocket expenditure for delivery in India” presented in APA conference, Malaysia (with Dr Ladusingh)  “ Community illiteracy and Familial influence on school dropout of adolescent girls in highly focused states of India: A Causal inference from Quasi-experimental study”  “ Effectiveness of community based intervention programme to improve utilization of reproductive health among young married couples in rural India”  “ Impact of peer-led education on awareness of early pregnancy and family planning choices among young population: Evaluation from an intervention based program” Assisted research (Consultancy)  Assisted for some medical research on drug efficiency, denguecare (etc.) from in-patient hospital records.  Provided consultancy to URC (USAID, India assisted project) and INCLEN trust International, India on methodological aspects for nutritional (fat-free MI) and obstetric care quality improvement. Invited/accepted/Seminar Activities (in recent years) International:  “ Impact of peer-led education on awareness of early pregnancy and family planning choices among young population: Evaluation from an intervention based program” invited to present in IASSCS International Conference and at Bangkok, Thailand, July 2017  “ Community illiteracy and Familial influence on school dropout of adolescent girls in highly focused states of India: A Causal inference from Quasi-experimental study” invited to present in IUSSP international conference at Cape town, South Africa, Oct 2017.  Presented a paper entitled "Are physical proximity and adequacy enough to reach rural women at public health facility for institutional delivery? A three level hierarchical model approach” presented in APA conference 2015, Malaysia.  Presented a paper entitled “Rural Health Facility and Institutional Birth: A study in Composite Index formation and Spatial modelling” in international conference of International Union for the Scientific Study of the Population (IUSSP) to be held at Busan, Korea, Aug 2013.  Presented paper entitled “Wealth being Inequalities in Maternal Health care utilization: A Study from Highly Focused States of India” in International conference of Asian Population Association (APA) held at Bangkok, Thailand, Aug 2012. Main Specialized Training/Workshop to enhance technical skills International/National  Participated in the international “Spatial Demography: Winter School” organized by Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research in Rostock, Feb, 2011, Germany.

2 Rachana Patel  Participated in “International Workshop on Statistical methods in Epidemiology, Sample size consideration in Epidemiology and Longitudinal data analysis” organised by INSEED at Nasik, November, 2009, India.  Participated in the Population dynamics models on “Lecture Series and Workshop in Population Dynamics Model” given by Prof Arni Srinivasan (ISI, Kolkata) at IIPS during Jan – Feb, 2012.  Attended two-week training programme on “Large Scale Sample Surveys in Demographic and Health Research” held in International Institute for Population Sciences (IIPS), Mumbai, on February 11-23, 2008. Technical Skills  Having efficiency in analysing large scale survey data like National Family Health Survey (NFHS), District Level Household Survey (DLHS), Demographic and Health Survey (DHS), different rounds of socio-economic surveys of National Sample Survey (NSS) and Census data also for the demographic projections.  Skilled in Bi-variate, Multivariate, Multinomial Regression and Spatial Analysis. Well versed with the application of statistical tools like ANOVA/ANCOVA, MCA, Principal Component Analysis, Factor Analysis, Regression (Linear, Binary Logistic, Segmented and spatial weighted), Hierarchical and interaction as well as some evaluation model (DID, IV, Multilevel Mixed effect). International Visit for Research activity Germany, Malaysia, South Korea Personal Details Husband’s Name : Dr Satya Prakash Singh Marital Status : Married Date of Birth : 01 May, 1983 Declaration I hereby declare that the above information is correct to the best of my knowledge and belief.

Place: Gurgaon Date: 25.04.2017 (RACHANA PATEL)

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