Mr  Sadanand Karun

International Institute for Population Sciences (IIPS), Mumbai
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Academic Qualification

MA in Geography, Master of Population Studies (MPS)

Position held

Publications

1. Karun, S., McDougal, L., & Singh, A. (2025). Sex disparities in health of older adults in India: assessing the morbidity-mortality paradox through disability-free life expectancy. Genus, 81(1), 11. https://doi.org/10.1186/s41118-025-00247-2.
2. GBD 2023 Demographic Collaborators [with] Karun, S. (2025). Global age-sex-specific all-cause mortality and life expectancy estimates for 204 countries and territories and 660 subnational locations, 1950–2023: a demographic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2023. The Lancet, 406(10513), 1731-1810. https://doi.org/10.1016/S0140-6736(25)01330-3.
3. Singh, A., Karun, S., Chakrabarty, M., Chandra, R., & Singh, S. (2025). Trends and determinants of obesity among ever-married women aged 15–49 in India: insights from National Family Health Surveys (NFHS 1998–2021). BMC Public Health, 25(1), 480. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12889-025-21635-5.
4. Gupta, G., Rana, T. S., Karun, S., & Roy, A. (2025). Spatial pattern and correlates of maternal healthcare utilization in the North Eastern Region of India: evidence from the National Family Health Survey, 2019–2021. Discover Public Health, 22(1), 1-14. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12982-025-00660-0.

Experience

Area of Specialization

Mortality, Disability, Gender, Health, Morbidity-Mortality Paradox

Membership of other Professional Associations

IASSH

I am a PhD student at the International Institute for Population Sciences (IIPS), Mumbai, specialized in quantitative demography. My doctoral research focuses on healthy life expectancy and sex differentials in mortality and morbidity using advanced computational and statistical modelling techniques. I am proficient in STATA and R, with experience in statistical, geospatial, and decomposition analyses, as well as population forecasting. My research has been published in leading journals, i.e., Genus, BMC Public Health, Discover Public Health, and The Lancet. I also contribute to the academic community as both an author and a peer reviewer.