Dr. Gyan Chandra Kashyap is a demographer, statistician, and Associate Professor at the Institute of Health Management Research, Bangalore (IIHMR-B). He holds an MPhil and PhD degree in Population Studies from the International Institute for Population Sciences (IIPS), Mumbai, and an M.Sc. in Statistics from Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi. During his PhD, he was awarded the Junior/Senior Research Fellowship (JRF/SRF) by the University Grants Commission, New Delhi. Prior to joining IIHMR, Bangalore, Dr. Kashyap worked as a Project Officer on the National Family Health Survey-5 (NFHS-5) and Health of Urban Poor (HUP) projects at IIPS, Mumbai.

Dr. Gyan teaches courses on Demography (fertility, mortality, and migration concepts), Applied Demography (focusing on indirect techniques for demographic estimations), Biostatistics (encompassing various data types, scale measurements, probability and distribution, sampling design, sample size determination, descriptive statistics, theory of estimation and hypothesis testing, a range of parametric and non-parametric statistical tests, multivariate regression methods, analysis of time-to-event data, and structural equation modeling), Data Analysis (covering aspects like data dictionaries, data cleaning, and regression models), and Health Survey Research Methods (pertaining to the design and execution of health survey research).

His area of interest are Occupational Health, Disease Epidemiology, Household Environment, Women’s Issues, Tobacco Research, and Nutrition. Dr. Gyan expertise lies in the design and execution of health survey research, encompassing sampling design, sample size determinations, and the oversight of large-scale surveys. He is also proficient in primary and secondary data handling, Dr Gyan has worked extensively with datasets like NFHS, NSSO, and GATS-India, employing statistical software such as STATA, SPSS, SPECTRUM, Mortpak, and CSPro.