Santanu Pramanik

Santanu Pramanik

Senior Fellow and Deputy Director, NCAER-National Data Innovation Centre (NDIC)

Journal | Feminist Economics
Precarity in a Time of Uncertainty: Gendered Employment Patterns during the Covid-19 Lockdown in India.
Sonalde Desai | Neerad Deshmukh | Santanu Pramanik
2021

Journal | Austrian Journal of Statistics, 48(4), 43-57
Evaluation of Synthetic Small-area Estimators Using Design-based Methods.
Partha Lahiri | Santanu Pramanik
2019

Policy Brief | Ideas for India Policy Brief, IGC
Covid-19 vaccine hesitancy: Trends across states, over time.
Soumi Roy Chowdhury | Abhinav Motheram | Santanu Pramanik
2021

Measurement Brief | NCAER National Data Innovation Centre
Urban Challenges of the COVID-19 Pandemic: Findings from the Delhi NCR Coronavirus Telephone Survey, Rounds 1 and 2.
Pallavi Choudhuri | Santanu Pramanik | Sonalde Desai
2020

Measurement Brief | NCAER National Data Innovation Centre
Insured but Not Covered: Rising Insurance Coverage Should be Accompanied by Awareness of Entitlements
Debasis Barik | Santanu Pramanik | Sonalde Desai
2020

Measurement Brief | NCAER National Data Innovation Centre
Improving Measurement of Women’s Work Participation: Sensitivity of Work Participation Rates to Questionnaire Design
Neerad Deshmukh | Sonalde Desai | Santanu Pramanik | Dinesh Tiwari
2020

Report | 3ie Grantee Final Report
Impacts of the Stimulate, Appreciate, Learn, and Transfer community engagement approach to increase immunisation coverage in Assam, India.
Santanu Pramanik | Arpita Ghosh | Anirban Goswami | Tiken Das | Rituu Nanda | Philip Forth | Sandra Albert
2020

JOURNAL | BMC Public Health, 18(1):534.
Impact evaluation of a community engagement intervention in improving childhood immunization coverage: a cluster randomized controlled trial in Assam, India.
Pramanik S., Ghosh, A., Nanda, R.B., de Rouw M, Forth P. & Albert S.
2018

JOURNAL | Epidemiology and Infection, Volume 146, Issue 1
Rubella vaccination in India: Identifying broad consequences of vaccine introduction and key knowledge gaps.
Winter, A., Pramanik, S., Lessler, J., Ferrari, M., Grenfell, B. & Metcalf, C. J.
2018

JOURNAL | Health & Place, Vol. 47
Neighborhood heterogeneity in health and well-being among the elderly in India- evidence from Study on Global Ageing and Adult Health
Ghosh, A., Millett, C., Subramanian, S. V. & Pramanik, S.
2017

JOURNAL | Vaccine, Vol. 33, No. 14
Vaccination coverage in India: A small area estimation approach
Pramanik S., Muthusamy N., Gera, R., Laxminarayan R.
2015

JOURNAL | Journal of the International Association for Official Statistics, Vol. 30, No. 2
An evaluation of three disclosure limitation models
Yang, M., Buso, M., Butani, S., Hiles, D., Mushtaq, A., Pramanik, S. & Scheuren, F.
2014

JOURNAL | Mathematical Population Studies, Vol. 21, No. 1
Selection of Prior for the Variance Component and Approximations for Posterior Moments in the Fay-Herriot Model
Pramanik, Santanu
2014

JOURNAL | Statistical Science, Vol. 26, No. 2
Discussion of “Estimating Random Effects via Adjustment for Density Maximization”
Pramanik, Santanu & Lahiri, P.
2011

Report | Government of India
Integrated Child Health and Immunization Survey, Rounds 1 & 2 Report. Immunization Technical
Support Unit, Ministry of Health and Family Welfare
Pramanik, S., Agrahari, K, Srivastava, A., Varanasi, V., Setia, M. & Laxminarayan, R.
2016

BOOK | Effectiveness of malaria control in a growing metropolis in western India
Pramanik, S., Patil, A., Basak, P., Balasubramaniam, P.
2008-2015

Opinion | The Indian Express
Reluctance to take Covid-19 vaccines could hinder achieving herd immunity sooner
Santanu Pramanik | Sonalde Desai
January 28, 2021

Opinion | The Indian Express
PM-KISAN is not reaching all farmer households as intended
Bornali Bhandari | Santanu Pramanik | Sonalde Desai
August 3, 2020

Opinion | Mint
Virus fear and logistical challenges curtailing economic activity in Delhi-NCR, new survey shows
Sonalde Desai | Santanu Pramanik
July 4, 2020

Opinion | The Hindu BusinessLine
Urban poor need better relief measures
Sumit Mazumdar | Santanu Pramanik | Sonalde Desai
May 24, 2020

Opinion | The Economic Times
View: Beyond the lockdown bend
Sonalde Desai | Santanu Pramanik
April 29, 2020

Opinion | The Indian Express
Telephone survey shows high understanding of social distancing, support for lockdown
Sonalde Desai | Santanu Pramanik
April 20, 2020

Moderator: Dialogue session: Vaccination in the context of COVID-19. CORE Net Conference, April 30, 2021.

Presenter: Challenges and Learnings from conducting research during the COVID-19 pandemic. Roundtable discussion, virtually organized by Institute of Social Studies Trust (ISST), April 9, 2021.

Presenter: Quality of Survey Data and Survey Estimates, workshop in Research Methodology for Social Science scholars, virtually organised by Madras Institute of Development Studies (MIDS), February 24, 2021.

Panellist: Doctoral Colloquium on Management and Development (DOCMAD-2020), panel discussion on ‘Covid Conundrum’ virtually organized by Institute of Rural Management, Anand (IRMA), November 4, 2020.

Presenter: Survey Research, 3rd Refresher Course in Research Methodology virtually organised by HRDC-JNU, October 21, 2020.

Panellist: Ethics in Research on Vulnerability, webinar on Ethics in research in mobile surveys for Covid-19: Balancing timely response, relevance and ethics organised by CORE Net, COVID-19 Research Network and Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, June 25, 2020.

Panellist: Collecting high quality data in phone surveys during a pandemic, panel discussion virtually organised by National Data Quality Forum (NDQF), May 21, 2020.

Presenter: Experience of NCAER in conducting national and area surveys: way forward, Stakeholder Consultation on Skill Sets for Survey Specialist/Enumerators organised by MoSPI, November 2019, New Delhi.

Paper presenter: The Paradox of Declining Fertility and Declining Contraceptive Use in India, International Seminar on 25 Year of NFHS in India organized by IIPS-Mumbai, October 2019, New Delhi.

Poster Presenter: The Paradox of Declining Fertility and Declining Contraceptive Use in India, Population Association of America (PAA) annual meeting April 2019, Austin.

Paper Presentation | Urban Health Conference, IIHMR Delhi, Feb 24-25
Community Engagement & Behaviour Change Communication
Pramanik, Santanu
2018

Paper Presentation | IISA International Conference on Statistics, Dec 27-30
Impact evaluation of a community engagement intervention in improving immunization coverage: a cluster randomized controlled trial
Pramanik, Santanu
2017

Paper Presentation | Evaluation Conclave June 6-9
Evaluating the impact of a community engagement approach to increase immunization coverage in Assam
Pramanik, Santanu
2017

Paper Presentation | 3ie-Delhi Evidence Week, November 15-16
Evaluating the impact of SALT intervention to increase immunization coverage in Assam: challenges
Pramanik, Santanu
2016

Paper Presentation | World Statistics Congress (WSC), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Selection of Prior for the Variance Component and Approximations for Posterior Moments in the Fay-Herriot Model
Pramanik, Santanu
2015

Education

  • Ph.D. University of Maryland, College Park, USA, 2008
  • M.Sc. Statistics Calcutta University, India, 2003
  • B.Sc. Statistics (Honours) R.K. Mission Residential College, Narendrapur, Kolkata, India, 2001

Work Experience

  • November 2018–Present: Senior Fellow and Deputy Director, NCAER-NDIC
  • May 2018–October 2018: Fellow and Deputy Director, NCAER-NDIC
  • 20122017: Research Scientist, Public Health Foundation of India, New Delhi, India
  • 20082012: Survey Statistician, NORC at the University of Chicago, Bethesda, MD