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India’s Technology Information, Forecasting and Assessment Council (TIFAC) represents India and its scholarly community at IIASA. TIFAC has established a national committee for the India–IIASA Programme to oversee research collaborations and capacity-building activities between the Indian research community and IIASA.
Main areas of collaborations:
Improving land, soil, and water management in India
Energy and climate change modeling
Increasing India’s resilience to natural disasters
Projecting India’s demographic changes
Managing India’s forests for the future
Smart ways to clean up India’s air
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News
24 March 2023
Increasing education opportunities for girls could help reduce preventable deaths in children under five
An IIASA study shows that maternal education, and particularly secondary education, plays a significant role in reducing deaths in newborns and children under five years of age in both rural and urban areas of India.
28 February 2023
Indian Ambassador visits IIASA
H.E. Ambassador Jaideep Mazumdar, Permanent Representative of the Republic of India to the United Nations and other international organizations in Vienna, recently visited IIASA to meet with IIASA Director General Albert van Jaarsveld.
20 February 2023
Leena Srivastava appointed to the Board of Shell
Shell has announced the appointment of former IIASA Deputy Director General for Science, Leena Srivastava, to its Board as Non-Executive Director effective from 13 March 2023.
Focus
04 December 2022
Celebrating 50 years of global collaboration
Options Magazine, Winter 2022: IIASA organized a series of celebratory activities with its member organizations throughout 2022 to celebrate 50 years of groundbreaking systems analysis research and opportunities to strengthen partnerships and collaborations with the global scientific community.
07 November 2022
A fair climate
Policy Brief #35, October 2022. Sharing mitigation fairly between countries doesn’t have to be expensive.
15 September 2022
Meet the 2022 YSSP scholarship recipients
Each year, select Young Scientists Summer Program (YSSP) participants win a scholarship to support their travel and research. In 2022, IIASA welcomed Swaptik Chowdhury, the recipient of the Roger Levien Fellowship, and Chayasmita Deka, who received the Professor Jyoti and Professor Kirit Parikh Fellowship.
Publications
Moradhvaj, M., Yildiz, D. , & K.C., S. (2023). The Role of Maternal Education in Reducing Excess Deaths among Girls in India. IIASA Working Paper. Laxenburg, Austria: WP-23-006
K.C., S. & Moradhvaj, M. (2023). Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the age-sex pattern of COVID-19 deaths in India. Asian Population Studies 1-20. 10.1080/17441730.2023.2193077.
Moradhvaj, M. & K.C., S. (2023). Differential impact of maternal education on under-five mortality in rural and urban India. Health & Place 80 p. 102987. 10.1016/j.healthplace.2023.102987.
Moradhvaj, D. & Saikia, N. (2023). Adult Mortality in India: Trends, Socio-economic Disparities and Consequences. Springer. ISBN 978-981-99-0001-5 10.1007/978-981-99-0002-2.
Kshatri, S.S., Dhillon, J., Mishra, S., Haghighi, A.T., Hunt, J. , & Patro, E.R. (2022). Comparative Reliability Assessment of Hybrid Si/SiC and Conventional Si Power Module Based PV Inverter Considering Mission Profile of India and Denmark Locations. Energies 15 (22) 10.3390/en15228612.
Agarwal, P. (2022). Air quality benefits from mitigation of Black Carbon emissions in Northern India. IIASA YSSP Report. Laxenburg, Austria: IIASA