Dr Debasis Barik served as a resource person at a 3-day workshop at Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata

Dr Debasis Barik, Senior Fellow at NCAER, served as a resource person at a 3-day workshop, “Decoding Large-Scale Public Health Data: Structure and Evaluation Strategies,” organised by the Population Studies Unit at the Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata, from 10 to 12 February 2026.

The workshop convened undergraduate and postgraduate students, PhD scholars, researchers, early-career professionals, and faculty from across India to strengthen capacities in the use of secondary datasets for public health and demography research. Sessions covered epidemiological measures, sampling procedures and weights, statistical models, and introduced key datasets including the National Family Health Survey, the National Sample Survey, and the India Human Development Survey.

Dr Barik’s lecture focused on using multiple waves of the India Human Development Survey panel for demography and health research, with emphasis on leveraging the panel structure for longitudinal analysis.