लेखक: Leela Visaria

Leela Visaria holds Ph D from Princeton University and is a former Professor and Director of GIDR. Currently she is an Honorary Professor at the Institute. Her research interests include historical demography as well as field-based studies on problems of health, family planning, education and demographic transition. Her articles have appeared in several scholarly journals. She has been a co-author of a book Contraceptive Use and Fertility in India: A Case Study of Gujarat (Sage Publications, New Delhi, 1995) and of India in the 21st Century along with Tim Dyson and Robert Cassen, both of London School of Economics (Oxford University Press, 2004). She has coedited (with John Simons and Peter Berman) Maternal Education and Child Survival: Pathways and Evidence (Vikas Publishing House, Delhi, 1997); Abortion in India: Ground Reality (jointly with Vimala Ramachandran), New Delhi, Routledge, 2007; and Midwifery & Maternal Health in India: Situation Analysis & Lessons from the Field, CMHS Monograph No.1, Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, 2010.