Irshad CV

PhD student
, Indian Institute of Technology-Madras, Chennai, India
Profile / Bio: 
Dr. Irshad CV completed PhD in Economics (Specialisation: Health Economics) from the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences at the Indian Institute of Technology Madras. He completed a bachelor's and master's in Economics from the University of Calicut. His Ph.D. thesis titled “Healthy Ageing in India: A Mixed Methods Approach” explored various research questions on healthy ageing in India using both quantitative and qualitative tools. His thesis work proposed the first multi- dimensional Healthy Ageing Index (HAI) for the health status measurement of older adults in India. Two of the core works of his thesis was published in the Journal of Population Ageing, an official journal of the Oxford Institute of Population Ageing, University of Oxford by Springer. His extended thesis work was also presented at a conference conducted by the Asian Development Bank, Manila, with full funding support from the Government of Japan. Besides his Ph.D. thesis work, he has been extensively collaborating with various researchers in the area of Gerontology, and published works in reputed journals like Social Science and Medicine -Population Health (Elsevier), Archives of Gerontology and Geriatrics (Elsevier), Aging and Health Research (Elsevier), Journal of Health Research (Emerald), Journal of Health Management (Sage) etc. In 2021, he received a research grant from the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) and International Institute for Population Sciences, Mumbai, to study social frailty status among older adults in India.

Materials

Title Date Learning Materials Topic
Discussion on Inequality of Access to Social Welfare Programs for Older People in Indonesia 09 September 2021 Slides Capacity Development, Economics
Healthy Aging and Gender Gap in India: Evidence from the Longitudinal Ageing Study in India - Wave 1 09 September 2021 Slides Health, Capacity Development, Social Development and Protection
Healthy Aging and Gender Gap in India: Evidence from the Longitudinal Ageing Study in India - Wave 1 — Draft Paper 09 September 2021 Document Health, Capacity Development, Social Development and Protection