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Dr. Srinivasan has
a brilliant academic record with first class master’s degrees in
mathematics, statistics and public health, and a doctorate degree in
demography. His master’s degree in statistics is from Indian Statistical
Institute, Calcutta and master’s in public health is from Harvard
University. He is the first doctorate in demography from an Indian
University, Kerala University, Thiruvananthapuram. He has held senior
academic positions in the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, USA
and the Australian National University at Canberra. As a researcher he
has 13 books and over 106 research papers published in national and
international peer reviewed journals. Many of his books are being used
in India and abroad as standard texts in teaching population studies.
He joined United Nations ESCAP at Bangkok and
served as Population Officer in the Population Division for over five
years from 1969 to 1975. In this capacity he has organized a number of
short-term training courses on Fertility and Family Planning Evaluation
and cross-national studies in a number of countries of the region. He
returned to India in 1975 as Director, Population Center at Bangalore.
He joined IIPS as its Director and Senior Professor in June 1978. He
held this position till 1992. He expanded the
academic and geographic scope of the Institute by making it a Deemed
University and training a large number of students at the Institute from
other countries of Asia with financial assistance from the UNFPA. The
Institute has students trained from all over Asia including China. He
was also instrumental in starting the National Family Health Survey (NFHS-
1) in the country during 1991-92. He has also
served as Executive Director of Population Foundation of India in New
Delhi during 1995 to 2002 (an organization founded by late JRD Tata),
and in this position he has promoted and enhanced the role of
non-governmental organizations and the corporate sector in family
planning and reproductive and child health programmes.
He has also
served the country through various national and international committees
and associations. He was a Member of the National commission on
Population with the Hon’ble Prime Minister of India as the Chairman. He was President of the Indian Association for the
Study of Population (IASP) for the period 1998-2002 and was an active
member of a number of commissions and committees set up by the
Government of India. He was a Member of the National
Statistical Commission set up by the Government of India in January
2000, which submitted its report in August 2001 to the Hon’ble Prime
Minister, recommending revamping of the statistical system in the
country. He was also a member of a number of committees on Population
and Health set by the Planning Commission, Ministry of Health and Family
Welfare and the Registrar General and Census Commissioner of the
Government of India. He was a member of the Working Group on Population
Policy set up by the Planning Commission in 1980 and played an active
role in drafting the report. He chaired a committee set by the Ministry
of Health and Family welfare in 1997 to review the Population Research
Centers in the country and as a chairman of this committee helped to
shape the course of Population Research Centers in the country. He was
also a member of the Population Policy Formulation Committees set by the
state governments of Uttar Pradesh and Madhya Pradesh during 1998-2000.
He has been
conferred Fellowship by the Indian Society for Medical Statistics in
1992. He was recipient of Ved Prakash Memorial award from the
National Institute of Health and Family Welfare, New Delhi in 1995 for
his life long contributions to population studies and programs. |
