Professor Sabu S. Padmadas

Sabu S. Padmadas is a Professor of Demography and Global Health at the Department of Social Statistics and Demography and Associate Dean International of the Faculty of Social Sciences at the University of Southampton.

He is the founding co-director of the Centre for Global Health, Population, Poverty and Policy, and the University India Centre for Inclusive Growth and Sustainable Development.

His research focuses broadly on population dynamics and global health including the application of demographic and statistical modelling of health and wellbeing outcomes in low-middle income and transition economies in Asia, Africa and Latin America. He has international expertise in programme impact evaluation and quantitative demography, census and survey data analysis.

A significant achievement of Padmadas’ academic career is the research spanning over a decade (since 2003) evaluating three cycles of a large-scale United Nations Reproductive Health and Family Planning programme in China, which generated high impact and policy response at the national level.

Padmadas has over 25 years academic experience, with an excellent record of research scholarship managing large international research projects funded by UK and International Research Councils/developmental agencies, over 85 peer-reviewed journal articles, and over 15 official reports for national and international organisations and statistical agencies.

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Sabu is working on the Co-POWeR national survey with Olatundun Gafari