PUNIT KUMAR MISHRA Summary of Professional Experience Mr. Punit Mishra is the Research Officer for the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation- funded Research and Evaluation for Action in Child Health (REACH) project, implemented by RTI International. He has extensive experience in academic research and communicating results to policy makers with areas of specialization, including survey methodology and social science data analysis. Mr. Mishra is adept in developing questionnaires; designing large sample surveys; determining sample size; processing and managing large-scale cross-sectional and longitudinal data sets; analyzing survey data on population, health, and development; and monitoring and evaluating programs and policies. Prior to joining RTI, he worked as the Health Financing Specialist at Abt Associates on the US Agency for International Development (USAID)-funded Health Finance and Governance project to develop the state-level health accounts and public health expenditure review. Mr. Mishra s research interests include statistical and mathematical demography, maternal and child health, health financing, statistical modeling, forecasting, and statistical methods. He has a PhD in statistics, for which his thesis focused on unmet family planning needs in Uttar Pradesh, India, including multilevel analysis of both the primary (e.g., surveys conducted in two districts of Uttar Pradesh for comparative analysis) and secondary (e.g. Demographic and Health Surveys) data. Education PhD, Statistics (Demography), Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India, expected in 2017. MPhil, Statistics (Demography), Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India, 2011. MBA, Marketing, Sikkim Manipal University, Gangtok, India, 2010. MA, Statistics, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, India, 2009. BA, Statistics, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, India, 2007. Graduated with honors. Professional Experience Sep 2015 to date RTI International, New Delhi, India Research Officer, REACH. Lead the Measurement, Learning, and Evaluation (MLE) agenda in the states of Uttar Pradesh and Bihar, India. Design and implement a monitoring and evaluation capacity strengthening program with and for partners. Design and conduct research studies to support the development and testing of innovations to improve the quality of treatment for children with pneumonia and diarrheal disease at the community level and in front line health services. Oversee and support the conduct of quantitative and qualitative research, including household and health facility surveys to assure the quality of the data collected.
MISHRA, 2 Plan and implement data quality reviews; analyze data and communicate findings to implementing partners in a timely fashion. Promote utilization and produce analytic reports and briefs for both policy and academic audiences Apr to Sep 2015 Abt Associates Inc., New Delhi, India Consultant, Health Financing Specialist, Health Finance and Governance Project In charge of data collection and analysis for key components of state wide project. Developed technical proposals and financial quotes, prepare project workplans, allocated work responsibilities and ensure timely execution by team Developed a comprehensive strategy for increasing public financing for Universal Health Coverage for the state of Haryana. Developed Public Health Expenditure Review for Haryana. Dec, 13 to Apr, 15 Transpire Global Informatics Pvt. Ltd., Ghaziabad, India Senior Manager, Market Research and Data Analysis. Led the analysis team for different market research projects. Apr, 12 to Nov, 13 The Gurukul International, Ranchi, India Consultant,Data Analysis and Social Research Managed surveys, analyzed data and developed technical reports for different educational projects. Aug, 11 to Feb, 12 University of Delhi, New Delhi, India. Guest Lecturer, Ramjas College, Department of Mathematics and Statistics. Taught two courses (Statistical Inference and Operational Research) at Undergraduate level. May, 09 to May, 10 TNS India, New Delhi, India Research Analyst, Social Research Unit. Part of Social Research Unit and handled statistical analysis and report writing for a number of projects.
MISHRA, 3 Internships May to Jun 2008 TNS India, New Delhi, India Intern. Analyzed the data collected through a survey for the evaluation of advertising strategy of Nokia Cellphones in India. Jul to Sep 2007 Bajaj Consumer Care Limited, India Intern. Worked on the Consumer and Market Research on Hair Oil project. Responsibilities included developing a framework and survey instrument, data collection,data analysis,and report writing. Honors and Achievements Senior Research Fellowship Population Studies, University Grants Commission, India, 2012. Asian Population Association Scholarship, Asian Population Association, Bangkok, Thailand 2012. Prof. S.N. Singh Award-Best Paper, Indian Association for the Study of Population, India, 2010. Junior Research Fellowship Population Studies, University Grants Commission, India, 2010. National Eligibility Test for lectureship, University Grant Commission, India, 2009. Doctoral Fellowship Population Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, India, 2009. Professional Associations Asian Population Association Indian Association for the Study of Population International Union for the Scientific Study of Population Population Environment Research Network Computer Skills Statistical packages: HAPT, MORTPAK, SPSS and Stata Computer languages: FORTRAN, C, C++ and R Languages English (fluent) Hindi (native) Country Experience India
MISHRA, 4 Books, Book Chapters, and Monographs Mishra, P. (2012). Institutional delivery in India. Intrastate variations in Uttar Pradesh: 1998 2008.Germany: Lambert Academic Publishing. Mishra, P. (2012). Poverty and public/private divide in institutional delivery care in India. In U.V. Somayajulu, G.K., Panda, R. Kar, P. Mishra, & Singh, K.K. (Eds.), Population, reproductive and child health: Perspectives and challenges(105 115). New Delhi, India: Serials Publications. Peer-Reviewed Publications Mishra, P. (2014). Is per capita income a true indicator of development? The International Journal of Humanities & Social Studies, 2(5), pp. 179 187. Presentations and Proceedings Mishra, P., Bhandari, P., Mishra, A., Baker, M. C., & Rai, A. (2016, December). Readiness of Public Health Facilities to treat Under-5 diarrhea and pneumonia in rural Uttar Pradesh. Paper presented at 37 th Annual Conference of Indian Association for the Study of Population (IASP) 2016, IEG, New Delhi, India. Mishra, P., Mishra, A., Baker, M. C., Rai, A., Saggurti, N., Pelly, L., Krishnan, S. & Bhandari, P. (2016, November). Availability of ORS, Zinc and Amoxicillin and Assessment Skills of Public Frontline Workers in Uttar Pradesh, India: A Key Determinant to Reducing Under-Five Mortality Due to Childhood Diarrhea and Pneumonia. Poster presented at American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene (ASTMH) 65 th Annual Meeting 2016, Atlanta, Georgia USA. Mishra, P., Baker, M. C., Mishra, A., Rai, A., Saggurti, N., Pelly, L., & Crocket, M. (2016, July). Management of childhood diarrhea and pneumonia among public and private frontline workers in Uttar Pradesh, India: Assessing the know-do gap. Poster presented at Tomorrow People Organization's Public Health Conference 2016, Kuching, Malaysia. Mishra, P., & Buragohain M. (2015, October). The state of exception in laws: Sexual violence against women in India. Presented at the International Conference on Knowledge and Politics in Gender and Women Studies, Ankara, Turkey. Mishra, P. (2012, August). Intra-state variations in institutional delivery in Uttar Pradesh: Results from multilevel analysis of DLHS-3 Data. Presented at the 2 nd Asian Population Association Conference, Bangkok, Thailand. Mishra, P. (2010, November). Poverty and public/private divide in institutional delivery care in India. Presented at the 32 nd Annual Conference of Indian Association for the Study of Population, Bhubaneshwar, India.
MISHRA, 5 Conferences and Workshops Discussant for a session NCDs at 37 th Annual Conference of Indian Association for the Study of Population (IASP) at Institute of Economic Growth, New Delhi, India, December, 2016. Discussant for a session Fertility and Family Planning at 37 th Annual Conference of Indian Association for the Study of Population (IASP) at Institute of Economic Growth, New Delhi, India, December, 2016. Discussant for a session at Census Data Dissemination Workshop organized by Office of Registrar General and Census Commissioner, India at the Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India, January, 2015. Discussant for a session Housing Conditions at the National Seminar on India s 2011 Census: Interpretations of the Results at the Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India, September, 2012. Part of coordinating committee of the First International Conference of the Asian Population Association (APA) held in New Delhi, India, November, 2010. Technical Reports Mishra, A., Mishra, P., Baker, M. C., Rai, A. & Bhandari, P. (2016, September). REACH Baseline: Uttar Pradesh. Final report. Prepared for the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. Mishra, A., Mishra, P., Baker, M. C., Chandan, A. & Bhandari, P. (2016, December). REACH Baseline: Bihar. Final report. Prepared for the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.