Prof. Sunil Rajpal is Assistant Professor – Economics at FLAME University. Currently, he is also affiliated with Geographic Insights Lab, Harvard University as Research Fellow. He is also a Research Professor at BK21 (Four R&E) Centre for Precision Public Health, Korea University, Seoul. He received his Doctorate Degree in Economics from Central University of Gujarat and was affiliated as an ICSSR Doctoral Fellow at the Institute of Economic Growth, Delhi. He has completed MPhil in Economics from Central University of Gujarat, MA in Applied Economics from Bundelkhand University, Jhansi and his graduation in Commerce from University of Allahabad. Prof. Sunil has over two years of experience and was associated with IIHMR, Jaipur, Tata Trusts, A. A Patel Commerce College and Central University of Gujarat. Prof. Sunil’s research interest includes Health Economics, Maternal and Child Nutrition Policy, Development Economics and Demography. His research work has appeared in reputed journals including The Lancet Global Health, Scientific Reports (Nature), Social Indicators Research, Social Science and Medicine, Health Policy and Planning, Maternal and Child Nutrition, PLOS One, Asian Population Studies and Economic and Political Weekly, He is currently involved in research on precision public health policy designing and social determinants of maternal and child nutrition. In his spare time, he enjoys travelling, and playing table tennis.

BOOK CHAPTERS

• Joe William, Pallavi Joshi and Sunil Rajpal. (2020). Private Sector in Health. In Ali Mehndi and S. Irudaya Rajan (Eds.), Health of the Nation: Perspectives for New India (pp. 209-222). Oxford University Press. https://india.oup.com/product/health-of-the-nation-9780199499830

JOURNAL ARTICLES: (INTERNATIONAL & INDIAN)

2022

• Rajpal S, Kumar A, Rana MJ, Kim R and Subramanian SV (2022) Small area variation in severe, moderate, and mild anemia among women and children: A multilevel analysis of 707 districts in India. Front. Public Health 10:945970.
  doi: 10.3389/fpubh.2022.945970


• Gausman, J., Kim, R., Li, Z., Tu, L., Rajpal, S., Joe, W., & Subramanian, S. V. (2022). Comparison of child undernutrition anthropometric indicators across 56 low-and middle-income countries. JAMA network open, 5(3), e221223-e221223.
  https://doi.org/10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2022.1223


• Kumar, A., Rajpal, S., Alambusha, R., Sharma, S., & Joe, W. (2022). Can Anganwadi services strengthening improve the association between maternal and child dietary diversity? Evidence from Project Spotlight implemented in tribal dominated Gadchiroli and Chandrapur districts of Maharashtra, India. PloS one, 17(3), e0264567.
  https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0264567


• Rajpal S, Kumar A, Rana MJ, Kim R and Subramanian SV (2022) Small area variation in severe, moderate, and mild anemia among women and children: A multilevel analysis of 707 districts in India. Front. Public Health 10:945970. doi: 10.3389/fpubh.2022.945970

2021

• Rajpal, S., Kumar, A., Alambusha, R., Sharma, S., & Joe, W. (2021). Maternal dietary diversity during lactation and associated factors in Palghar district, Maharashtra, India. PloS one, 16(12), e0261700.https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0261700


• Johri, M., Rajpal, S., & Subramanian, S. V. (2021). Progress in reaching unvaccinated (zero-dose) children in India, 1992–2016: a multilevel, geospatial analysis of repeated cross-sectional surveys. The Lancet Global Health, 9(12), e1697-e1706.https://doi.org/10.1016/S2214-109X(21)00349-1
  


• Joe, W., Kumar, A., Rajpal, S., Misra, A., Alambusha, R., Sharma, S., & Subramanian, S. V. (2021). Infrastructure for Delivery of Integrated Child Development Services and Uptake of Pre-school Education Services: Insights from Palghar, India. Journal of Development Policy and Practice, 6(1), 36-56. doi:10.1177/2455133321999852


• Rajpal, S., Lu, S. Y., & Joe, W. (2021). Why market orientation matters for agriculture and fishery workers? Unravelling the association between households’ occupational background and caloric deprivation in India. BMC public health, 21(1), 1-13.https://bmcpublichealth.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12889-021-10644-9
  


• Rajpal, S., Kim, J., Joe, W., Kim, R., & Subramanian, S. V. (2021). Small area variation in child undernutrition across 640 districts and 543 parliamentary constituencies in India. Scientific reports, 11(1), 1-9.https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-021-83992-6

2020

• Rajpal, S., Kim, R., Liou, L., Joe, W., & Subramanian, S. V. (2020). Does the Choice of Metric Matter for Identifying Areas for Policy Priority? An Empirical Assessment Using Child Undernutrition in India. Social Indicators Research, 152(3), 823-841.https://doi.org/10.1007/s11205-020-02467-9


• Rajpal, S., Joe, W., & Subramanian, S. V. (2020). Living on the edge? Sensitivity of child undernutrition prevalence to bodyweight shocks in the context of the 2020 national lockdown strategy in India. Journal of Global Health Science, 2(2).https://doi.org/10.35500/jghs.2020.2.e19


• Rajpal, S., Kim, R., Joe, W., & Subramanian, S. V. (2020). Stunting among Preschool Children in India: Temporal Analysis of Age-Specific Wealth Inequalities. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 17(13), 4702.https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph17134702


• Joe, W., Kumar, A., Rajpal, S., Mishra, U. S., & Subramanian, S. V. (2020). Equal risk, unequal burden? Gender differentials in COVID-19 mortality in India. Journal of Global Health Science, 2(1).https://doi.org/10.35500/jghs.2020.2.e17 
  


• Rajpal, S., Joe, W., Subramanyam, M. A., Sankar, R., Sharma, S., Kumar, A., ... & Subramanian, S. V. (2020). Utilization of integrated child development services in India: programmatic insights from national family health survey, 2016. International journal of environmental research and public health, 17(9), 3197. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph17093197


• Rajpal, S., Joe, W., Kim, R., Kumar, A., & Subramanian, S. V. (2020). Child undernutrition and convergence of multisectoral interventions in India: an econometric analysis of National Family Health Survey 2015–16. Frontiers in public health, 8, 129.https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpubh.2020.00129/full


• Rajpal Sunil, Kim R, Sankar R, Kumar A, Joe W, Subramanian S V. (2020). Frequently asked questions on child anthropometric failures in India. Economic & Political Weekly. 55, 8: 59-64. https://www.epw.in/journal/2020/6/national-family-health-survey-4/frequently-asked-questions-child-anthropometric.html

2019

• Joe, W., Rajpal, S., Kim, R., Laxmaiah, A., Harikumar, R., Arlappa, N., ... & Subramanian, S. V. (2019). Association between anthropometric‐based and food‐based nutritional failure among children in India, 2015. Maternal & child nutrition, 15(4), e12830.. https://doi.org/10.1111/mcn.12830


• Kim, R., Rajpal, S., Joe, W., Corsi, D. J., Sankar, R., Kumar, A., & Subramanian, S. V. (2019). Assessing associational strength of 23 correlates of child anthropometric failure: an econometric analysis of the 2015-2016 national family health survey, India. Social Science & Medicine, 238, 112374.https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2019.112374

2018

• Rajpal, S., Kumar, A., & Joe, W. (2018). Economic burden of cancer in India: Evidence from cross-sectional nationally representative household survey, 2014. PloS one, 13(2), e0193320.. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0193320


• Joe, W., & Rajpal, S. (2018). Unravelling the socioeconomic gradient in the incidence of catastrophic health care expenditure: a comment. Health Policy and Planning, 33(5), 699-701.https://academic.oup.com/heapol/advancearticle/doi/10.1093/heapol/czy026/4956817?guestAccessKey=bb038eab-ee7f-43b1-b939-1162d4c4c0f9


• Joe, W., Perkins, J. M., Kumar, S., Rajpal, S., & Subramanian, S. V. (2018). Institutional delivery in India, 2004–14: unravelling the equity-enhancing contributions of the public sector. Health policy and planning, 33(5), 645-653. https://doi.org/10.1093/heapol/czy029
  https://academic.oup.com/heapol/advance-article/doi/10.1093/heapol/czy029/4962123


• Joe, W., Kumar, A., & Rajpal, S. (2018). Swimming against the tide: economic growth and demographic dividend in India. Asian Population Studies, 14(2), 211-227. https://doi.org/10.1080/17441730.2018.1446379


• Rajpal, S., & Joe, W. (2018). Measuring catastrophic healthcare expenditure. Economic and Political Weekly, 53(32), 22-25. https://www.epw.in/journal/2018/32/commentary/measuring-catastrophic-healthcare.html


• Joe William, Shalini Rudra, Rajpal Sunil and SV Subramanian. (2018). Persistent Intersectional Inequalities in the Prevalence of Childhood Stunting in India: Evidence from NFHS 2005-06 and 2015-16. IER Journal of Health and Demography. 4(1): 24-37. ISSN: 2454-9207


• Rajpal Sunil and William Joe. (2017). On the Convergence Puzzle. Economic and Political Weekly. 52. 12: 149-150. http://www.epw.in/journal/2017/12/commentary/convergence-puzzle.html

2015

• Rajpal Sunil and Indira Dutta. (2015). Demographic Transition in Gujarat: An Overview’. IER Journal of Health and Demography. 1. 1: 10-20. ISSN: 2454-9207.

CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS

• Unravelling Socioeconomic Inequalities in Survival among Elderly Persons in India, 2004 and 2014, 4th Annual Conference of Asian Population Association, Shanghai, China.


• Demographic Dividend for Gujarat: A Reassessment, National Seminar on Population and Development: Challenges for 21st Century-2016, at VANAMATI, Nagpur organized by International Institute of Population Studies, Mumbai.


• Window of Opportunity for Gujarat: Beyond Demographic Assessment, Census Data Dissemination Workshop – 2014, Gujarat University, Ahmadabad, organized by Census and UNDP.

OTHER PUBLICATIONS: (WORKING PAPERS, REPORTS, OPINION PIECE)

• Joe W, Kumar A, Kumar R, Rajpal Sunil, Subramanian SV. “COVID-19 in India: Epidemic Growth and Impact on Maternal and Child Health”. IEG Insights 2020: Fighting COVID-19: Assessments and Reflections. (2020). May. Institute of Economic Growth. Delhi. 38-46.


• Blossom J, Kumar R, Kim R, Swaminathan A, Swaminathan G, Rajpal Sunil, Joe W, Subramanian S V. 2019. Visualizing Parliamentary Constituency Factsheet for Indicators of Nutrition, Health and Development in India. Cambridge, MA: Harvard Center for Geographic Analysis and Center for Population and Development Studies. 
  https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/population-development/indiapcfactsheets/


• Rajpal Sunil, Kim Rockli, Sankar Rajan, Kumar Alok, Joe William and Subramanian S V. 2018. FAQs on Child Anthropometric Failures in India: Insights from the National Family Health Survey 2015-16. Harvard Centre for Population and Development Studies Working Paper Series. 18(3):1-42.
  https://cdn1.sph.harvard.edu/wp-ontent/uploads/sites/1266/2018/12/Volume_18_No-3.pdf


• Kim R, Swaminathan A, Swaminathan G, Kumar R, Rajpal Sunil, Blossom J, Joe W, Subramanian S V. Parliamentary Constituency Factsheet for Indicators of Nutrition, Health and Development in India. Working paper.
  https://cdn1.sph.harvard.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/1266/1266/20/Estimates-for-Nutrition-Health-and-Development-Indicators-20192.pdf


• Joe W., Rajpal Sunil., Kumar R., Rudra S., Agrawal S., Kim R & Subramanian S.V. Health, Education and Livelihoods: Thrust Areas for Transformation of Aspirational Districts in India. Tata Trusts: Mumbai. India.


• Missing those Shots. The Financial Express (National Edition). 15th December 2021
  https://www.financialexpress.com/opinion/missing-those-shots/2380142/


• Fighting Hunger with an intersectoral strategy. The Pioneer. 19th september 2020 https://www.dailypioneer.com/2020/columnists/fight-hunger-with-an-inter-sectoral-strategy.html


• COVID19 – Feeding the Future of India. Financial Express. 24th August 2020 https://www.financialexpress.com/opinion/covid-19-feeding-the-future-of-india/2063264/


• India’s continued impasse with child under nutrition: Many jolts and a Ray of hope. BW Healthcare. 15th December 2020. http://bwhealthcareworld.businessworld.in/article/India-s-Continued-Impasse-With-Child-Under-nutrition-Many-Jolts-And-A-Ray-Of-Hope/15-12-2020-353933/