Debasis Barik is a Senior Fellow at the NCAER-National Data Innovation Centre (NDIC). His primary research areas include public health and mortality, migration, gender, healthcare financing, and environmental health. He is a demographer by training and has for long been associated with survey design and survey implementation. At NDIC, he led an experiment, which aimed at minimising measurement bias in the estimation of out-of-pocket healthcare expenditure for inpatient and outpatient treatment. He is an active member of various national and international organisations, working in areas of demography and social sciences. Since 2017, he has been a member of the Expert Group formed by the National Health System Resource Centre to institutionalise National Health Accounts estimates. He is also serving as Associate Editor and Review Editor for some reputed international journals. He has a Ph.D. in Population Studies from the International Institute for Population Sciences, Mumbai.
JOURNAL | Feminist Economics
Gender and Generation: Land Ownership and Older Indians’ Autonomy
Debasis Barik, Sonalde Desai and Hope Xu Yan
2023
REPORT | NCAER
Insured but Not Covered: Rising Insurance Coverage Should be Accompanied by Awareness of Entitlements
Debasis Barik, Santanu Pramanik, Sonalde Desai
2020
POLICY BRIEF | IHDS Website
A Glass Half Full: Changes in Standard of Living since 2012
Sonalde Desai | Manjistha Banerji | Debasis Barik | Dinesh Tiwari | O.P. Sharma
2020
JOURNAL | World Development
Economic Status and Adult Mortality in India: Is the Relationship Sensitive to Choice of Indicators?
D Barik, Sonalde Desai & Reeve Vanneman
2018
JOURNAL | Health Economics
Evolving health expenditure landscape of the BRICS nations and projections to 2025
Mihajlo Jakovljevic, Elena Potapchik, Larisa Popovich, Debasis Barik and Thomas E. Getzend
2016
JOURNAL | Frontiers in Public Health
Rising Health Expenditure Due to Non-communicable Diseases in India: An Outlook
D Barik & Perianayagam Arokiasamy
2016
JOURNAL | Frontiers in Public Health
Issues of unequal access to public health in India
D Barik & A thorat
2015
JOURNAL | Economic and Political Weekly Vol I, No,. 24
After the Dividend: Caring for a Greying India
D Barik, Tushar Agrawal & Sonalde Desai
2015
JOURNAL | Middle East Journal of Age and Ageing
Living Arrangements and Treatment Seeking Behaviour of the Elderly from Different Economic Segments in India
D Barik
2012
BOOK CHAPTER | Springer Nature
After the Dividend: Caring for a Greying India
D Barik, Tushar Agrawal & Sonalde Desai
2017
REPORT | India Infrastructure Report 2013|14 – The Road to Universal Health Coverage
Determinants of Private Healthcare Utilisation and Expenditure Patterns in India
D Barik & Sonalde Desai
BOOK CHAPTER | Concept Publishing Company
Environmental Performance and its Determinants – A Study of Pulp and Paper Industry in India
S K Jana and D Barik | S K Jana and M K Pal (eds.)
2011
OPINION | The Hindu
A remedy for health insurance
Debasis Barik
February 2023
OPINION | The Hindu
How India is choking indoors
Debasis Barik
July 2022
OPINION | The Hindu
With India’s demographic transition, come challengess
Sonalde Desai and Debasis Barik
December 2021
OPINION | The Hindu
Smoking Kills – in India too
D Barik & S Desai
May 2015
OPINION | The Hindu
Poorly performing public service
D Barik, S Desai & T Aggarwal
April 2014
OPINION | Macro Track
Old & Lonely Health Care
D Barik
August 2013
OPINION | Macro Track
Shift in Morbidity Patterns among Indians
D Barik
July 2013