Dr  Priyanka Patel

Newcomb Institute, Tulane University, New Orleans, LA, US
pa**************@gmail.com
+91 735****331

Academic Qualification

1. M.Sc
2. MPS
3. MPhil
4. Ph.D.

Position held

Research Scholar

Publications

1. Raj A, Daniel C, Johns N, Patel P, Rao N, Giwa L (2025). Sex Differences in Beliefs Regarding Abortion Access as a Women’s Health Issue. Contraception, 111272.

2. Dhamnetiya D, Bhattacharyya K, Jha RP, Shri N, Singh M, Patel P (2025). Long-term trends of visceral leishmaniasis incidence and mortality in India 1990–2019: An application of joinpoint and age-period-cohort analysis. BMC Infectious Diseases, 25(1), 1176.

3. Wagman JA, James KS, Li AHL, Patel P, Raj A (2025). Alcohol use, prohibition policies, and bidirectional intimate partner violence in India. Alcohol and Alcoholism, 60(5), agaf045.

4. Bhattacharyya K, Jha RP, Dhamnetiya D, Patel P, Shri N, Singh M (2025). Exploring secular trends and types of tuberculosis burden in India over past three decades through insights from the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019. Discover Public Health, 22(1), 439.

5. Patel P, Bhattacharyya K, Singh M, Jha RP, Dhamnetiya D, Shri N (2024). Depression among currently married ever pregnant adolescents in Uttar Pradesh and Bihar: Evidence from understanding the lives of adolescents and young adults (UDAYA) survey, India. Indian Journal of Psychiatry, 66(2), 148–156.

6. Eman S, Jha RP, Safdar M, Singh M, Patel P, Javeria U (2024). Misinformation and perception of COVID‐19 and risk assessment among people in Pakistan: A pilot study. Health Information & Libraries Journal.

7. Shri N, Singh M, Dhamnetiya D, Bhattacharyya K, Jha RP, Patel P (2023). Prevalence and correlates of adolescent pregnancy, motherhood and adverse pregnancy outcomes in Uttar Pradesh and Bihar. BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth, 23(1), 1–12.

8. Patel P, Muhammad T, Sahoo H (2023). The burden of disease-specific multimorbidity among older adults in India and its states: Evidence from LASI. BMC Geriatrics, 23(1), 1–14.

9. Shri N, Bhattacharyya K, Dhamnetiya D, Singh M, Jha RP, Patel P (2023). Long-term trends of HIV/AIDS incidence in India: An application of joinpoint and age–period–cohort analyses: A gendered perspective. Frontiers in Public Health, 11, 1093310.

10. Eman S, Jha RP, Patel P, Singh M, Sanawar M, Kazmi UER, Shukla M (2022). Attitude of public towards COVID-19 vaccine: An exploratory study in Pakistan. Revista Ciências Humanas, 15(1).

11. Singh M, Jha RP, Shri N, Bhattacharyya K, Patel P, Dhamnetiya D (2022). Secular trends in incidence and mortality of cervical cancer in India and its states, 1990–2019: Data from the Global Burden of Disease 2019 Study. BMC Cancer, 22(1), 1–12.

12. Patel P, Mandal C, Sahoo H (2022). Impact of Economic Dependency on Perceived State of Health Among Elderly in India. In Handbook of Aging, Health and Public Policy: Perspectives from Asia (pp. 1–19).

13. Jha RP, Dhamnetiya D, Bhattacharyya K, Patel P, Shri N, Singh M (2022). The burden of depression among Indian adolescents: A study on cross-sectional data.

14. Patel P, Muhammad T, Sahoo H (2022). Morbidity status and changes in difficulty in activities of daily living among older adults in India: A panel data analysis. PLOS ONE, 17(6), e0269388.

15. Dhamnetiya D, Patel P, Jha RP, Shri N, Singh M, Bhattacharyya K (2021). Trends in incidence and mortality of tuberculosis in India over past three decades: A joinpoint and age–period–cohort analysis. BMC Pulmonary Medicine, 21(1), 1–14.

16. Jha RP, Shri N, Patel P, Dhamnetiya D, Bhattacharyya K, Singh M (2021). Trends in the diabetes incidence and mortality in India from 1990 to 2019: A joinpoint and age-period-cohort analysis. Journal of Diabetes & Metabolic Disorders, 20(2), 1725–1740.

17. Singh M, Shekhar C, Patel P, Meitei WB (2021). Age pattern of gestational arrest in India and its regions: Evidence from NFHS-4 (2015–2016). Children and Youth Services Review, 121, 105831.

18. Singh M, Patel P (2021). An Empirical Analysis of Under-five Mortality in India. In Population and Social Protection, 163.

19. Patel P, Kumar K, Singh M, Yadav AK. Sex differentials in under five mortality in India in last two decades: Evidence from pooled NFHS data. Children and Youth Services Review, 118, 105286.

Experience

I hold a Ph.D. in Population Studies from the International Institute for Population Sciences (IIPS), Mumbai, with strong academic training in demography, health statistics, and advanced quantitative research methods. My research experience includes working extensively with large-scale national and international datasets such as NFHS, LASI, UDAYA, and Global Burden of Disease (GBD). I have applied advanced statistical techniques including joinpoint regression, age–period–cohort modelling, multilevel analysis, panel data analysis, and geospatial methods. My research primarily focuses on reproductive health, adolescent health, ageing, morbidity patterns, mortality trends, and gender disparities in health outcomes.

Area of Specialization

Reproductive and Adolescent Health
Gender and Health Inequalities
Population Ageing and Multimorbidity
Mortality and Disease Burden Analysis
Maternal and Child Health
Joinpoint and Age–Period–Cohort Analysis
Survey Data Analysis (NFHS, LASI, GBD, UDAYA)
Spatial and Geospatial Analysis

Membership of other Professional Associations

Life Member, Indian Association for Social Science and Health (IASSH)

I am a Population Studies researcher and Data Analyst with strong expertise in demographic methods and health data analytics. My work focuses on understanding health inequalities, gender disparities, reproductive health, and disease burden in India and South Asia using large-scale survey and secondary datasets. I am skilled in statistical software such as STATA, R, SPSS, and GIS-based tools for spatial analysis. I am committed to producing policy-relevant research and contributing to evidence-based public health decision-making through rigorous quantitative analysis.