Arokiasamy Perianayagam

Professor

Arokiasamy Perianayagam is a Professor at NCAER leading research programmes in the area of health and health economics.

He has been a Visiting Professor at the Centre for Policy Studies, Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Bombay, and before that, he was Professor and Head of the Department of Studies at the International Institute for Population Sciences, Mumbai where he served as faculty for over three decades. His subject areas of teaching and research expertise cover demography, public health and health economics, ageing, and global health, development studies and large-scale health survey research. He has supervised 23 PhD research students, published over 100 research papers in top-rated international peer-reviewed journals in the subject areas of demography, public health, epidemiology, and social sciences. As the lead Principal Investigator, he directed several nationwide surveys and pioneering research studies.

He has served as a member of different ministries (MoHFW, MoSJE, ICMR, NITI Aayog), INSA, US-NAS, SNSF, UK-NSO and many national and international collaborative consortium. He was also advisor/international consultant in institutions such as WHO, UNFPA, HSPH, University of Southern California etc. He was educated at the University of Madras, Annamalai University and received postdoctoral research training at the London School of Economics (LSE).

Research

Journal | Scientific Reports
“Socioeconomic differences in handgrip strength and its association with measures of intrinsic capacity among older adults in six middle-income countries”
Arokiasamy Perianayagam | Selvamani Y | Jotheeswaran AT | Sadana R
2021

Report | Springer & The World Health Organization
“Global Burden of Diabetes Mellitus”
Arokiasamy Perianayagam | Supriya Salvi | Y. Selvamani
2021

Journal | BMC Geriatrics
“Association of life course socioeconomic status and adult height with cognitive functioning of older adults in India and China”
Arokiasamy Perianayagam | Selvamani Y.
2021

Article | The Lancet
“Tracking development assistance for health and for COVID-19: a review of development assistance, government, out-of-pocket, and other private spending on health for 204 countries and territories, 1990–2050”
Arokiasamy Perianayagam | AE Micah | IE Cogswell | B Cunningham| S Ezo
2021

Article | The Lancet
“Measuring routine childhood vaccination coverage in 204 countries and territories, 1980–2019: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2020, Release 1”
Arokiasamy Perianayagam
2021

Journal |Comparative Population Studies
“Mortality Compression and Variability in Age at Death in India”
Arokiasamy Perianayagam | Suryakant Yadav
2020

Journal | Journal of Substance Use
“Identifying stages of smoke and smokeless tobacco cessation among adults in India: an application of transtheoretical model
Arokiasamy Perianayagam | Balram Rai
2020

Journal | The Lancet Planetary Health
“Health and Economic Impact of Air Pollution in the states of India: The Global Burden of Disease Study 2019”
Arokiasamy Perianayagam | Ananaya Pandey | Lalit Dando
2019

Journal | British Journal of Visual Impairment
“Illustrative Effects of Social Capital on Health and Quality of Life among Older Adults in India: Results from WHO-SAGE India”
Arokiasamy Perianayagam | H Himanshu | BedangaTalukdar | Selva Mani
2019

Journal | Journal of Population Ageing
“Patterns of Frailty and Quality of Life among Older Adults: Comparative Analysis Using SAGE States of India”
Arokiasamy Perianayagam | Mamta Chaudhary
2019

Journal |The Lancet Global Health
“India’s escalating burden of non-communicable diseases: Commentary on India Diseases”
Arokiasamy Perianayagam
2018

Journal | American Journal of Human Biology
“Food insecurity partially mediates associations between social disadvantage and body composition among older adults in India: Results from the study of global Ageing and adult health (SAGE)”
Arokiasamy Perianayagam | Joshua M Schrock | Heather H McClure | J Josh Snodgrass | Melissa A Liebert | Karen E Charlton | Nirmala Naidoo | Paul Kowal
2017

Journal | Front Public Health
“Rising Health Expenditure Due to Non-Communicable Diseases in India: An Outlook”
Arokiasamy Perianayagam | Debasis Barik
2016

Journal | National Library of Medicine
“Sibling- and Family-Level Clustering of Underweight Children in Northern India”
Arokiasamy Perianayagam | Abhishek Singh
2016

Journal | The Lancet
“Multimorbidity: health care that counts “past one”
Arokiasamy Perianayagam | P. Kowal | Sangamitra Pati
2015

Report | National Research Council of the National Academies (US), The National Academy Press
“Longitudinal Ageing Study in India (LASI): Vision, Design, Implementation and Preliminary findings”
Arokiasamy Perianayagam | David Bloom | Jinkook Lee | Kevin Feeney | Marija Ozolins
2012

Working Paper | The National Academy Press,Washington
“Aging, Health and Chronic Conditions in China and India: Results from the Multinational Study on Global Ageing and Adult Health”
Arokiasamy Perianayagam | Paul Kowal, Sharon Williams| Yong Jiang | Wu Fan| Somnath Chatterji
2012

Education

Postdoctoral Fellow Department of Social Policy, London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), London, 1999-2000
Ph.D. Population Studies, Annamalai University (1992)
M.A. Population Studies, Annamalai University (1983)
B.Sc. Mathematics, University of Madras (1980)

Work Experience

2021 – Present: Professor, NCAER
2021 – Present: Visiting Professor, Centre for Policy Studies, Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Bombay.
2008-2020: Professor and Head, Department of Development Studies, International Institute for Population Sciences, Mumbai