Dr. Sumit Mazumdar

Sumit Mazumdar is a trained demographer, with a major in Economics. He currently works as a Fellow at the Institute for Human Development (IHD), New Delhi where he coordinates the Population Health Nutrition (PHN – RP) Research Programme. His research interests span empirical issues in development economics related to shocks and welfare outcomes, and impact evaluations of development interventions. Under the PHN-RP, Sumit is involved in conceptualizing, designing and execution of research studies concerning the broad themes of health systems strengthening, child undernutrition and health & nutrition service delivery models. He has worked in field-level studies in West Bengal, Bihar, Maharashtra, Gujarat and Himachal Pradesh, and has instructed training programmes on quantitative techniques of research and data analysis.