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Faculty Prof. Saseendran Pallikadavath
Prof. Saseendran Pallikadavath

Prof. Saseendran Pallikadavath

Professor of Global Health

Department of Centre for Inter Disciplinary Research

Contact Details

saseendran.p@srmap.edu.in

Office Location

Neerukonda, Mangalagiri Mandal, Guntur District, Andhra Pradesh, India - 522240
Research Centre for Inter Disciplinary Research Faculty Prof. Saseendran Pallikadavath

Faculty Information

Education

2000
PhD in Demography
Australian National University (ANU), Canberra
Australia
1995
Graduate non-degree in Demography
Australian National University (ANU), Canberra
Australia
1987
PG Certificate in Population Studies
International Institute for Population Sciences (IIPS), Bombay, Mumbai
India
1986
M.Sc
University of Poona
India
1983
BSc
University of Calicut
India

Personal Website

Experience

  • 2025- Present Professor Emeritus, Faculty of Science, University of Portsmouth, United Kingdom
  • 2017-2024 Professor of Demography and Global Health - University of Portsmouth, United Kingdom
  • 2015 -Present Director - Centre for Global Health, Population and Policy, University of Brawijaya/University of Portsmouth, Indonesia/United Kingdom
  • 2021-2022 Adjunct Professor, Global Health - University of Brawijaya, Indonesia
  • 2007-2015 - Senior Lecturer in Health Demography, University of Portsmouth, United Kingdom.
  • 2001-2007- Senior Research Fellow, Department of Social Statistics & Demography, University of Southampton, United Kingdom.
  • 2000-2001 - Chief (Professor) and Head of Department - Institute of Applied Manpower Research (IAMR), New Delhi. (Now - National Institute of Labour Economics Research and Development NILERD)
  • 2000-2000 - Consultant Economist - National Council of Applied Economic Research (NCAER), New Delhi
  • 1993-1995 - Demographer - HCM Rajasthan State Institute of Public Administration (HCM-RIPA), Jaipur.
  • 1988-1990 - Research Officer - Population Centre (now State Institute of Health and Family Welfare, Lucknow.

Research Interest

  • Professor Pallikadavath has a strong interest in non-communicable diseases (NCDs) among adolescents and adults in Southeast Asia. He is currently developing grant proposals in collaboration with colleagues in Indonesia, the Philippines, and Vietnam to establish a surveillance system for monitoring cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk among school-going children. He is also developing proposals on community-based interventions for CVD prevention in Indonesia and Vietnam, working closely with the Primary Health Care system in Vietnam and the Posbindu initiative in Indonesia.
  • Professor Pallikadavath has conducted research on low fertility and its socio-economic implications in India. His British Academy-funded project examined the effects of low fertility and early sterilisation on women’s socio-economic welfare. He was also awarded an ESRC project with the University of Oxford to examine low fertility in LMICs. He has led this work, including the production of a special volume on low fertility in the Journal of Biosocial Science. His current research investigates very low fertility in Kerala, India, focusing on the same families after a period of 25 years. This revisit is expected to provide much-needed data on the impact of extremely low fertility (TFR: 1.17) on their welfare aspirations.
  • The impact of migration on women’s health and wellbeing is another key area of his research. His recent work examined the effects of international female migration on left-behind families in Indonesia, supported by British Council Newton Institutional Links funding. This project resulted in publications and a short film, My Lost Dream (watch here- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yU8YD--czrA&t=1028s), illustrating the life of a female migrant worker. This was followed by a study investigating the impact of COVID-19 on international female migrants, funded by the UK Global Challenges Research Fund (GCRF). These works have contributed to policy changes affecting international female migrants from Indonesia.

Awards

  • Fulbright Fellowship – To undertake specilist specialist training in demography at the East–West Population Institute, Hawaii.
  • India–Australia Bilateral PhD Fellowship – Funded by AusAID to pursue a PhD in Demography at the Australian National University, Canberra.

Memberships

  • British Society for Population Studies
  • South East Asia Regional Hub for Population and Health
  • Funding Panel Member: International Science Partnership Foundation (ISPF).
  • UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) – Peer reviewer for across Research Councils (ESRC & MRC)
  • Journal of Population Research (Springer), Australian Population Association Journal.
  • Special Issue (Post Transition Fertility) editor: Journal of Biosocial Science, Cambridge University Press.
  • External Examiner: MSc Global Health, University of Southampton, United Kingdom
  • PhD examiner for University of Southampton, University of Warwick, University of Deakin, University of West London
  • Associate member: Centre for Population Change, University of Southampton.
  • British Medical Association (BMA) Foundation Assessor

Publications

Patents

Projects

  • Addressing the Demand and Supply Side Barriers to Women’s Education and Employment in STEM Sectors in Indonesia

    Prof. Saseendran Pallikadavath

    Funding Agency: Sponsoring Agency - British Council, Budget Cost (INR) Lakhs: 29, Status: Completed

  • Socio-economic and health impact of Covid-19 on international female migrants and their left-behind families in Indonesia

    Prof. Saseendran Pallikadavath

    Funding Agency: Sponsoring Agency - Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council, Budget Cost (INR) Lakhs: 238, Status: Completed

  • Exemplars in Global Health: Identifying drivers of success in improving Adolescent Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights (ASRHR) in Low and Middle-income Countries

    Prof. Saseendran Pallikadavath

    Funding Agency: Sponsoring Agency - Gates Ventures, Exemplars in Global Health, Budget Cost (INR) Lakhs: 2100, Status: Completed

  • Re-examining Traditional Method Use in DRC, Ghana, Kenya, and Nigeria

    Prof. Saseendran Pallikadavath

    Funding Agency: Sponsoring Agency - Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Budget Cost (INR) Lakhs: 2520, Status: Completed

  • Impacts of Demand Side Financing Instruments on the Continuum of Care for Maternal and Child Health in India and Bangladesh

    Prof. Saseendran Pallikadavath

    Funding Agency: Sponsoring Agency - Medical Research Council (MRC), Budget Cost (INR) Lakhs: 1139, Status: Completed

  • Indonesian International Vocational Student Mobility Award.

    Prof. Saseendran Pallikadavath

    Funding Agency: Sponsoring Agency - Indonesian Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology, Budget Cost (INR) Lakhs: 198, Status: Completed

  • What happens to the family when women migrate? An international collaborative programme on the impact of female international migration on poverty, children, elderly, spouse and fertility in East Java.

    Prof. Saseendran Pallikadavath

    Funding Agency: Sponsoring Agency - British Council, Budget Cost (INR) Lakhs: 84.5, Status: Completed

  • Research Design Services (RDS), South Central.

    Prof. Saseendran Pallikadavath

    Funding Agency: Sponsoring Agency - National Institute for Health Research (NIHR), Budget Cost (INR) Lakhs: 6220, Status: Completed

  • Post-transitional fertility in developing countries: causes and implications.

    Prof. Saseendran Pallikadavath

    Funding Agency: Sponsoring Agency - Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC), Budget Cost (INR) Lakhs: 21.1, Status: Completed

  • Visiting Fellowship for Professor Abhishek Singh (International Institute for Population Sciences, Mumbai)

    Prof. Saseendran Pallikadavath

    Funding Agency: Sponsoring Agency - Leverhulme Trust, Budget Cost (INR) Lakhs: 31.7, Status: Completed

  • Inequalities in access to health care in Brazil and India: Closing the gap for the poorest poor

    Prof. Saseendran Pallikadavath

    Funding Agency: Sponsoring Agency - Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC), Budget Cost (INR) Lakhs: 217, Status: Completed

  • What is the Impact of Contraceptive Methods and Mixes of Contraceptive Methods on Contraceptive Prevalence, Unmet Need for Family Planning, and, Unwanted and Unintended Pregnancies?

    Prof. Saseendran Pallikadavath

    Funding Agency: Sponsoring Agency - UK Department for International Development DFID, Budget Cost (INR) Lakhs: 35.2, Status: Completed

  • What kind of family planning delivery mechanisms increase family planning acceptance in developing countries?

    Prof. Saseendran Pallikadavath

    Funding Agency: Sponsoring Agency - UK Department for International Development DFID, Budget Cost (INR) Lakhs: 35.2, Status: Completed

  • Women’s social benefits of early sterilisation and low fertility in South India.

    Prof. Saseendran Pallikadavath

    Funding Agency: Sponsoring Agency - British Academy (BA), Budget Cost (INR) Lakhs: 84.6, Status: Completed

  • Developing Collaborative Research Project on Reproductive Health.

    Prof. Saseendran Pallikadavath

    Funding Agency: Sponsoring Agency - Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC), Budget Cost (INR) Lakhs: 5.9, Status: Completed

  • CVD Risk Assessment Evaluation in Isle of Wight

    Prof. Saseendran Pallikadavath

    Funding Agency: Sponsoring Agency - Isle of Wight PCT, Budget Cost (INR) Lakhs: 49.3, Status: Completed

  • Portsmouth Alcohol Misuse Needs Assessment

    Prof. Saseendran Pallikadavath

    Funding Agency: Sponsoring Agency - Safer Portsmouth Partnership, Budget Cost (INR) Lakhs: 32.9, Status: Completed

  • Sexual Health Survey Data Analysis

    Prof. Saseendran Pallikadavath

    Funding Agency: Sponsoring Agency - Portsmouth Primary Care Trust, Budget Cost (INR) Lakhs: 6, Status: Completed

  • Social context of drug and alcohol use among children and young people in Hampshire.

    Prof. Saseendran Pallikadavath

    Funding Agency: Sponsoring Agency - Hampshire County Council, Budget Cost (INR) Lakhs: 56.4, Status: Completed

  • Measuring maternal mortality using routine service statistics

    Prof. Saseendran Pallikadavath

    Funding Agency: Sponsoring Agency - British Academy, Budget Cost (INR) Lakhs: 8.2, Status: Completed

Scholars

Interests

  • Adolescent sexual and reproductive health (ASRH)
  • Antibiotic resistance in LMICs
  • Climate change and health
  • Community-based NCD interventions in LMICs
  • Family system changes in the Global South
  • International female migration & health
  • Non-communicable diseases (NCDs) among adolescents
  • Post-transitional fertility in LMICs
  • Women’s health & family planning

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Education
1983
BSc
University of Calicut
India
1986
M.Sc
University of Poona
India
1987
PG Certificate in Population Studies
International Institute for Population Sciences (IIPS), Bombay
India
1995
Graduate non-degree in Demography
Australian National University (ANU), Canberra
Australia
2000
PhD in Demography
Australian National University (ANU), Canberra
Australia
Experience
  • 2025- Present Professor Emeritus, Faculty of Science, University of Portsmouth, United Kingdom
  • 2017-2024 Professor of Demography and Global Health - University of Portsmouth, United Kingdom
  • 2015 -Present Director - Centre for Global Health, Population and Policy, University of Brawijaya/University of Portsmouth, Indonesia/United Kingdom
  • 2021-2022 Adjunct Professor, Global Health - University of Brawijaya, Indonesia
  • 2007-2015 - Senior Lecturer in Health Demography, University of Portsmouth, United Kingdom.
  • 2001-2007- Senior Research Fellow, Department of Social Statistics & Demography, University of Southampton, United Kingdom.
  • 2000-2001 - Chief (Professor) and Head of Department - Institute of Applied Manpower Research (IAMR), New Delhi. (Now - National Institute of Labour Economics Research and Development NILERD)
  • 2000-2000 - Consultant Economist - National Council of Applied Economic Research (NCAER), New Delhi
  • 1993-1995 - Demographer - HCM Rajasthan State Institute of Public Administration (HCM-RIPA), Jaipur.
  • 1988-1990 - Research Officer - Population Centre (now State Institute of Health and Family Welfare, Lucknow.
Research Interests
  • Professor Pallikadavath has a strong interest in non-communicable diseases (NCDs) among adolescents and adults in Southeast Asia. He is currently developing grant proposals in collaboration with colleagues in Indonesia, the Philippines, and Vietnam to establish a surveillance system for monitoring cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk among school-going children. He is also developing proposals on community-based interventions for CVD prevention in Indonesia and Vietnam, working closely with the Primary Health Care system in Vietnam and the Posbindu initiative in Indonesia.
  • Professor Pallikadavath has conducted research on low fertility and its socio-economic implications in India. His British Academy-funded project examined the effects of low fertility and early sterilisation on women’s socio-economic welfare. He was also awarded an ESRC project with the University of Oxford to examine low fertility in LMICs. He has led this work, including the production of a special volume on low fertility in the Journal of Biosocial Science. His current research investigates very low fertility in Kerala, India, focusing on the same families after a period of 25 years. This revisit is expected to provide much-needed data on the impact of extremely low fertility (TFR: 1.17) on their welfare aspirations.
  • The impact of migration on women’s health and wellbeing is another key area of his research. His recent work examined the effects of international female migration on left-behind families in Indonesia, supported by British Council Newton Institutional Links funding. This project resulted in publications and a short film, My Lost Dream (watch here- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yU8YD--czrA&t=1028s), illustrating the life of a female migrant worker. This was followed by a study investigating the impact of COVID-19 on international female migrants, funded by the UK Global Challenges Research Fund (GCRF). These works have contributed to policy changes affecting international female migrants from Indonesia.
Awards & Fellowships
  • Fulbright Fellowship – To undertake specilist specialist training in demography at the East–West Population Institute, Hawaii.
  • India–Australia Bilateral PhD Fellowship – Funded by AusAID to pursue a PhD in Demography at the Australian National University, Canberra.
Memberships
  • British Society for Population Studies
  • South East Asia Regional Hub for Population and Health
  • Funding Panel Member: International Science Partnership Foundation (ISPF).
  • UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) – Peer reviewer for across Research Councils (ESRC & MRC)
  • Journal of Population Research (Springer), Australian Population Association Journal.
  • Special Issue (Post Transition Fertility) editor: Journal of Biosocial Science, Cambridge University Press.
  • External Examiner: MSc Global Health, University of Southampton, United Kingdom
  • PhD examiner for University of Southampton, University of Warwick, University of Deakin, University of West London
  • Associate member: Centre for Population Change, University of Southampton.
  • British Medical Association (BMA) Foundation Assessor
Publications
Contact Details

saseendran.p@srmap.edu.in

Scholars
Interests

  • Adolescent sexual and reproductive health (ASRH)
  • Antibiotic resistance in LMICs
  • Climate change and health
  • Community-based NCD interventions in LMICs
  • Family system changes in the Global South
  • International female migration & health
  • Non-communicable diseases (NCDs) among adolescents
  • Post-transitional fertility in LMICs
  • Women’s health & family planning

Education
1983
BSc
University of Calicut
India
1986
M.Sc
University of Poona
India
1987
PG Certificate in Population Studies
International Institute for Population Sciences (IIPS), Bombay
India
1995
Graduate non-degree in Demography
Australian National University (ANU), Canberra
Australia
2000
PhD in Demography
Australian National University (ANU), Canberra
Australia
Experience
  • 2025- Present Professor Emeritus, Faculty of Science, University of Portsmouth, United Kingdom
  • 2017-2024 Professor of Demography and Global Health - University of Portsmouth, United Kingdom
  • 2015 -Present Director - Centre for Global Health, Population and Policy, University of Brawijaya/University of Portsmouth, Indonesia/United Kingdom
  • 2021-2022 Adjunct Professor, Global Health - University of Brawijaya, Indonesia
  • 2007-2015 - Senior Lecturer in Health Demography, University of Portsmouth, United Kingdom.
  • 2001-2007- Senior Research Fellow, Department of Social Statistics & Demography, University of Southampton, United Kingdom.
  • 2000-2001 - Chief (Professor) and Head of Department - Institute of Applied Manpower Research (IAMR), New Delhi. (Now - National Institute of Labour Economics Research and Development NILERD)
  • 2000-2000 - Consultant Economist - National Council of Applied Economic Research (NCAER), New Delhi
  • 1993-1995 - Demographer - HCM Rajasthan State Institute of Public Administration (HCM-RIPA), Jaipur.
  • 1988-1990 - Research Officer - Population Centre (now State Institute of Health and Family Welfare, Lucknow.
Research Interests
  • Professor Pallikadavath has a strong interest in non-communicable diseases (NCDs) among adolescents and adults in Southeast Asia. He is currently developing grant proposals in collaboration with colleagues in Indonesia, the Philippines, and Vietnam to establish a surveillance system for monitoring cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk among school-going children. He is also developing proposals on community-based interventions for CVD prevention in Indonesia and Vietnam, working closely with the Primary Health Care system in Vietnam and the Posbindu initiative in Indonesia.
  • Professor Pallikadavath has conducted research on low fertility and its socio-economic implications in India. His British Academy-funded project examined the effects of low fertility and early sterilisation on women’s socio-economic welfare. He was also awarded an ESRC project with the University of Oxford to examine low fertility in LMICs. He has led this work, including the production of a special volume on low fertility in the Journal of Biosocial Science. His current research investigates very low fertility in Kerala, India, focusing on the same families after a period of 25 years. This revisit is expected to provide much-needed data on the impact of extremely low fertility (TFR: 1.17) on their welfare aspirations.
  • The impact of migration on women’s health and wellbeing is another key area of his research. His recent work examined the effects of international female migration on left-behind families in Indonesia, supported by British Council Newton Institutional Links funding. This project resulted in publications and a short film, My Lost Dream (watch here- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yU8YD--czrA&t=1028s), illustrating the life of a female migrant worker. This was followed by a study investigating the impact of COVID-19 on international female migrants, funded by the UK Global Challenges Research Fund (GCRF). These works have contributed to policy changes affecting international female migrants from Indonesia.
Awards & Fellowships
  • Fulbright Fellowship – To undertake specilist specialist training in demography at the East–West Population Institute, Hawaii.
  • India–Australia Bilateral PhD Fellowship – Funded by AusAID to pursue a PhD in Demography at the Australian National University, Canberra.
Memberships
  • British Society for Population Studies
  • South East Asia Regional Hub for Population and Health
  • Funding Panel Member: International Science Partnership Foundation (ISPF).
  • UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) – Peer reviewer for across Research Councils (ESRC & MRC)
  • Journal of Population Research (Springer), Australian Population Association Journal.
  • Special Issue (Post Transition Fertility) editor: Journal of Biosocial Science, Cambridge University Press.
  • External Examiner: MSc Global Health, University of Southampton, United Kingdom
  • PhD examiner for University of Southampton, University of Warwick, University of Deakin, University of West London
  • Associate member: Centre for Population Change, University of Southampton.
  • British Medical Association (BMA) Foundation Assessor
Publications
Contact Details

saseendran.p@srmap.edu.in

Scholars