Outside India
Invited member of United Nations Inter-agency Group for Child Mortality Estimation, July 8-10, 2024, UNICEF, New York, USA in the TAG meeting on July 8-10, 2024, at UNICEF, New York, USA.
Invited speaker “ICPD30 Global Dialogue on Demographic Diversity and Sustainable Development.” in 15 and 16 May 2024 in Dhaka, Bangladesh. Spoke as a Panel member of “The Future of Population Data”.
Invited talk on “An update of excess female deaths under age five in India: Is India changing for better?”, in the international seminar “Population
Dynamics in India, the World’s Most Populous Country” organized by New York University, Abu Dhabi, and IIPS, Mumbai at New York University,
Abu Dhabi in 10-11 May 2023.
Invited talk on “Adult mortality estimation: Application of Indirect method of survey and census data”, in UN World Data Forum, organized by
UN, at Hangzhou, China (remote speaker) on THURSDAY, 20 April: 2023 (Session TA1.06 Surveys and censuses in Building a Stronger Statistical
foundation to Understand the True Death toll of the Pandemic.
Participated as an invited member of the UN Inter-agency Group for Child Mortality Estimation Technical Advisory Group Meeting (virtual) , organized by UN IGME on July 17, 2023.
Invited talk on “The Current Challenges Faced by Asian Social Scientists” in “Social sciences in Asia: Past, present and future 25th AASSREC biennial general conference”, organised by KOSSREC; AASSREC and NRC, at Yonsei University, Seoul, South Korea, in 14-15 June 2023.
Invited talk on “Death registration coverage for population subgroups of India: Findings from the Nationally representative survey and from a
mobile phone based survey” in the webminar “Measuring adult Mortality Community practice (MAM-CoP) Webminar Series” organised by
United Nations; ESCAP, UNDESA and WHO, on 6th September 2023.
Wittgenstein Colloquium on “Actual and ideal fertility differential among natives, immigrants, and descendants of immigrants in a northeastern state of India” at Vienna Institute of Demography, Austria, 19th February 2019.
Invited seminar on “The trajectory of gender disparity in health across the life course: The case of Indian Women” at Department of International Development, London School of Economics and Political Science, London, 17th September 2018.
Invited seminar on “Gender and mortality: Does female survival advantage really exist in India?” At Centre for Demographic Research, Université Catholique de Louvain, Belgium; 5th June 2018
Delivered a talk on “Neonatal mortality in India through quantitative and qualitative perspective” at Bill & Melinda Gates Institute for Population and Reproductive Health, John Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, USA Tuesday, May 6th, 2014
Invited presenter on “Mortality Inequality in India during 1970-2010: Integrating Census and Sample Registration System Findings” in JY Pillay Comparative Asia Research Centre conference, National University of Singapore, Singapore, 22-24 May, 2013.
Invited speaker on “Trends and geographical differentials in mortality under age 60 in India” at Seminar Program of Cedeplar, Federal University of Minas Gerais (UFMG) on 4 November 2011 in Belo Horizonte, Brazil.
Invited speaker on “Adult Mortality in India” in Institut National d’etudes Demo- graphics (INED), Paris in the seminar “Health and Mortality in Asia”, held on 21 October, 2011.
Invited presenter at Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) on “Adult Mortality in India” in IHME, Seattle, the USA on 27 September 2010
Inside India
Invited speaker and a Member of Technical Advisory Group, MINErVA (Mortality in India Established through Verbal Autopsies), AIIMS, New Delhi 19th November 2024.
Saikia Nandita (Feb 10, 2023) “Ending Preventable MaternalMortality (MCH)” Invited speaker in Consultative meeting Health data analysis
needs in Northeast India, 10th February 2023, Radisson Blue Hotel, Guwahati
Invited talk on the findings of the project “Developing the district level forecasts of vaccine coverage and inferring vaccine confidence across India
using large public health datasets” in the workshop “Data Science Grand Challenge Community Dissemination”, organized by DBT-BMGF-BIRACWellcome in 8-9th November 2023 in India Habitat Centre, Delhi
Invited lecture on “Basic Measures of Mortality and Life Table Construction Hands on exercise with Nepal census sample dataset”, in “Two-weeks
Demographic Training for Nepal Census Officials on Demographic indicators (direct and indirect estimates), life tables, projection and SDG
indicators derived from population data” organized by IIPS, Mumbai, sponsored by UNFPA on 14th September 2024 (Full training 11-21
September 2023 ).
Invited talk on “Process of writing a research paper” in the online workshop “Online workshop on Research paper writing” organized by VART research 22-23 July 2023.
Delivered an Invited talk at Gauhati University in Seminar on the topic
“Reaching out to the periphery: PM’s Mann Ki Batt and Its impact on North East India” on 29 April, 2023 (Saturday) from 2:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m. in the University premises.
Saikia, Nandita (April 24, 2022) “Trajectory of gender disparity in health across life-course: Is India changing for the better?? ” Invited speaker
(virtual) in in Centre for Indian Knowledge Systems, IIT, Guwahati on April 24, 2022 at 3 pm.
Saikia, Nandita (June 17 2022) “Understanding Mortality Statistics” Invited speaker (virtual) organized by Govind Ballabh Pant Social Science
Institute Prayagraj, June 17, 2022.
Saikia, Nandita (July 15 2022) “Mortality and Morbidity:Health Issues in India” Invited speaker (virtual) in Refresher Course in Geography
through online mode organized by HRDC-JNU: July 15, 2022 from09.30 amto 11.00 am
Saikia, Nandita (July 29 2022) “How to write a scientific paper?” Invited speaker (virtual) in a week-long online workshop on research.Methodology, July 25-31, 2022Organised by VART Research, Delhi-NCR & Mumbai, India on July 29 2022
Saikia, Nandita (Feb 5, 2023) “How to write a good scientific research paper/project proposal? Process of journal publication, and publication
criteria? ” Invited speaker (virtual) in an online workshop on “ResearchMethodology” organized by VART Research, Mumbai in collaboration with the Department of Statistics, B H College, Howly AssamFeb 1-7, 2023 at 6-8 pm.
Saikia, Nandita (Feb 8, 2023) “Premature deaths in India with special reference to Assam? ” Invited speaker is organized by Department of Geography, CottonUniversity, Assam.
Presented on “National Population Registrar in India” in the discussion on “The Citizenship Amendment Act i.e. Citizen’s Security and the Significance of CAA” on 4rth March 2020 at room no 128, School of International Studies, JNU, organized by Academic Political Wing.
Delivered the keynote lecture on “A way forward for the indigenous population in Assam” at Bhagawati Prasad Barua Bhawan, Assam Sahitya Sabha, Guwahati-1 on 10th January 2020 organized by Assam College Teacher’s Association.
Delivered a talk on “NRC and the North East” on 2nd November 2019 at the conference center, North Campus, Delhi University, organized by VIMARSH 2019, Youth United for Vision and Action.
Participated in a panel discussion on “Assam’s National Register of Citizens (NRC): What Happened, and What Now” on 24 September 2019 in Institute of Peace and Conflict Studies, New Delhi
Delivered a talk on “Trajectory of gender disparity in health across the life course: The case of Indian Women” on 5th September 2019 at Multipurpose Hall, South Asian University, New Delhi.
Delivered a talk as a keynote speaker on “Immigration in Assam” at Developing Countries Research Centre, Delhi University in “Grassroots Social Science Colloquium on North East” 23rd March 2017.
Delivered a talk on “Trends and sub-national disparities in neonatal mortality in India from 1981 to 2011” at Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata on 9th January 2014.