Health and Nutrition of Women and Children in Empowered Action Group States of India: Status and Progress

This book tracks the progress of maternal and child health (MNCH) - part of SDG 3 - in Empowered Action Group of states in India.

Sandhya R Mahapatro is Assistant Professor, Economics Division, at the A. N. Sinha Institute of Social Studies, Patna, India. She pursued her doctoral and postdoctoral research in migration studies. Her current research areas include issues related to health economics, migration, maternal and child health and gender.

Udaya S Mishra, a Statistician/Demographer, is Professor in the Department of Epidemiology and Bio-statistics at the International Institute for Population Sciences, Mumbai, India, with research contributions in the areas of aging, health and nutrition, in addition to population policy and programme evaluation. His current research interest includes measurement issues in health and equity focusing on the evaluation of outcomes.

Shubh Swain is an implementation scientist and a policy thought leader in the multi-sectoral areas of gender, nutrition, food systems and global health. He has worked in several regions, including South Asia and East Africa. He works as a Research Associate at the Tata Cornell Institute, Cornell University, USA. Shubh’s current work focuses on developing strategies to involve men in achieving better nutritional status for women in low- and middle-income countries.