I am currently working as Research Associate at the ICMR- National Institute of Medical Statistics, New Delhi. Previously, I served as Postdoctoral Scientist at the Center on Gender Equity and Health, University of California, San Diego, USA in 2017. I worked as a Demographer at the Population Research Center, Institute of Economic Growth, Delhi University Enclave, New Delhi from 2016 to 2017. I earned PhD in Population Studies from the International Institute of Population Sciences (IIPS), Mumbai in 2017. I am trained as a Sociologist with a Bachelor of Arts (Honours) and Master of Arts degree from the Banaras Hindu University, Uttar Pradesh in 2006 and 2008 respectively. I also received a Master's Degree in Population Studies from the International Institute of Population Sciences (IIPS), Mumbai in 2010. I have been a Young Scientist in the prestigious Young Scientist Summer Program (YSSP) at World Population Program, International Institute of Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA), Laxenburg, Vienna during June-August, 2014. I also participated in the International Program on ‘__Population and Development: New Approaches to Enduring Global Problems’ at the Brown International Research Advanced Institutes (BIARI), Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island, USA, 2015. Earlier, I also received training on ‘Demographic Aspects of Population Ageing and its Implications for Socio-Economic Development, Policies and Plans’ at the International Institute on Ageing (INIA), United Nations – Malta. Besides, I have been Visiting Scholar at the Harvard T.C. Chan School of Public Health, Harvard University, 2011; East-West Center, Hawaii, Honolulu, USA in 2011. My current research focuses on Gender and population ageing; Inheritance rights and women's health; Social capital and well-being/quality of life; Family life education and adolescent health. I use a mixed-method approach for my research and employ STATA, SPSS, ArcGIS and GeoDa software for large scale data analysis. I have published more than a dozen research papers in the international peer-reviewed journal articles and book chapters, including PLOS ONE, European Journal of Clinical Nutrition (Springer Nature), Journal of Biosocial Science (Cambridge University Press), Spatial and Spatio-temporal Epidemiology (Elsevier). I have presented my research papers at the international conferences and seminars including the Population Association of America, Washington DC, USA, 2011; International Union for the Scientific Study of Population (IUSSP), South Korea, 2013; Global Maternal Health Conference, Arusha, Tanzania, 2013; International Conference on ‘Contextualizing Productive Ageing in Asia’, Asia Research Institute (ARI), National University of Singapore (NUS), Singapore, 2017.