Dr. Avijit Roy is a State Aided College Teacher in the Department of Geography at Malda College in Malda, West Bengal, India. He teaches courses related to Population Geography, Gender Studies, Regional Planning, Urban Geography, Social and Cultural Geography. Dr. Roy completed his Ph. D. in Geography from University of Gour Banga. He conducts research in a range of settings across the globe. His current research interests lie in women’s sexual & reproductive health, maternal morbidity & mortality, maternal & newborn health, geriatrics, healthcare services, child marriage, violence against women, public health, and spatial analysis.
Mr. Margubur Rahaman, a trained women's health researcher, specializes in family planning, reproductive health, maternal & child health, and other women's health rights. He holds the position of Senior Research Fellow at the International Institute for Population Sciences in Mumbai. His primary focus revolves around extending interventions to the most underprivileged and vulnerable populations while assessing national initiatives aimed at enhancing maternal and child health. Mr. Rahaman boasts a portfolio of over 20 publications renowned for their contribution to issues related to population, health, and development on an international scale. Additionally, Mr. Rahaman is an active member of several professional associations, including the International Union for the Scientific Study of Population in France and the Asian Population Association in Thailand.
Dr. Pradip Chouhan is a Professor at the Department of Geography, University of Gour Banga, Malda, West Bengal, India. Earlier, he was an Assistant Professor at the Department of Geography, Jadavpur University, Kolkata. His areas of research interest are fertility behaviour, public health, maternal health, and child health. He is actively engaged in teaching and research in Population Geography for nearly two decades and has published more than 50 research papers in Scopus and Web of Science-indexed journals, 3 edited books, and authored 1 book.
Dr. Farooq Ahmed is an Associate Professor at The Islamia University of Bahawalpur. He is a sociocultural and medical anthropologist and public health researcher. He earned a doctorate and conducted ethnographic research on the complex interplay of political, economic, and cultural determinants of illness and maternal-child malnutrition in Pakistan. His interests include political economy, social justice, health-seeking behavior, and social determinants of public health and nutrition.