PROFESSIONAL PROFILE

·         Research Fellow of Indian Statistical Institute ,  1979-86

·         Visiting Research Fellow at Tokyo Metropolitan Institute of Gerontology,  Japan, 1982

·         Postdoctoral Fellow at Netaji Institute of Asian Studies, 1988-90

·          Ashoka Fellow, 1991

·         Fellow of the Session 400 at Salzburg Seminar, Austria: “Trends and Innovations in Health Professions Education: Building Comprehensive and Sustainable Reforms, July, 2002

 PROFESSIONAL ACCOMPLISHMENT

 Designed CMIG in 1988 to promote research, training, service and academics in the field of gerontology. The organization is now recognized as the Regional Agency of the National Institute of Social Defense(NISD), Government of India & Regional Resource & Training Centre on Ageing under the Ministry  of Social Justice & Empowerment , Government of India.

 

Received National Award in 2006 for generating and spreading knowledge in the field of Ageing

 

IN THE POLICIES AND ACTION PLANNING

Actively involved as an expert in all policies, laws & action planning for elderly at the GOI & state government level

JOURNAL EDITORSHIP

Editor of AGEING & SOCIETY” The Indian Journal of Gerontology

PUBLICATIONS

Author of more than 25 contributions on the challenges of ageing. One of the contributors in the UNFPA initiatives for building the knowledgebase on the status of elderly in India

ACADEMIC INVOLVEMENT

            At the PG level of Calcutta University& Research Guide for Ph. D scholars