Biostatistics, Mathematical Demography, Public Health & Mortality studies and Health economics

1. Teaching experience- 3 years 10 months

Post Graduate Level

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1. Statistical Inference 2. Probability theory 3. Design of Experiment, 4. Biostatistics and Demography

1. Biostatistics: Survival Analysis
2. Demography: Population ageing issues, Mortality studies.
3. Public Health: Economic burden and modelling of Non-Communicable Diseases, Healthcare and health financing

1. The prestigious "K. Srinivasan Award" in the Substantive category. This award recognizes exceptional contributions to the field of demography, with a specific focus on India, and your work has truly distinguished itself.
2. Awarded "Post-Matric Scholarship" for two years in +2 Science, Government of Odisha.
3. Awarded "INSPIRE Scholarship" in BSc and MSc. from Department of Sciences and Technology (DST), New Delhi.
4. Awarded University Gold Medal in STATISTICS-2017, Utkal University, Bhubaneswar, Odisha
5. Awarded "Govt. of India (GOI) Scholarship" from Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, (MoHFW), New Delhi for pursuing Master of Population Studies (MPS) in international Institute for Population Sciences, Mumbai, 2017-18
6. Awarded "Govt. of India (GOI) Scholarship" from Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, (MoHFW), New Delhi for pursuing Master of Philosophy (M.Phil.) in Population Studies in international Institute for Population Sciences, Mumbai, 2019
7. Awarded INSPIRE DST Fellowship from Ministry of Department of Science and Technology (DST) for pursuing Ph.D. in Statistics, 2018-19
8. Awarded "UGC-NFOBC" Fellowship for pursing MPhil and Ph.D. in Population Studies, Mumbai, 2018-19

1. Member of the International Union for Scientific Study of Population (IUSSP)
2. Member of Royal Statistics Society (RSS), United Kingdom
3. Member of the Asian Population Association (APA)
4. Life Member of Indian Association for Study of Population (IASP)
5. Review Editor of the Journal of Frontiers in Public Health

International Publications

2025
1. Sahoo, U., Maiti, S., & Mohanty, S. K. (2025). Care cascade of hypertension across stages among older adults in India. PLoS One, 20(12), e0335627. [SCI, Impact Factor: 2.6]
2024
2. Mubarik, S., & GBD 2021 Causes of Death Collaborators. (2024). Global burden of 288 causes of death and life expectancy decomposition in 204 countries and territories and 811 subnational locations, 1990
2023
3. Sahoo, U., Sharma, S. K., Chari, H., Nayak, S. R., Ali, W., & Muhammad, T. (2023). Examining the rural–urban differentials in yoga and mindfulness practices among middle-aged and older adults in India: secondary analysis of a national representative survey. [SCI, Impact Factor: 3.9]
4. Sahoo, U., Akhtar, S. (2023). Utilization of Inpatient and Outpatient Health Services and Associated Cost for Chronic Diseases Among Older Adults in India: Evidences from Longitudinal Ageing Survey in India 2017. [Scopus, Springer, Singapore]
5. Swain, C. K., Padhee, S., Sahoo, U., Rout, H. S., & Swain, P. K. (2023). Changing patterns of cancer burden among elderly across Indian states: Evidence from the global burden of disease study 1990. [SCI, Impact Factor: 2.5]
2022
6. Mohanty, S. K., Sahoo, U., & Rashmi, R. (2022). Old‐age dependency and catastrophic health expenditure: Evidence from Longitudinal Ageing Study in India. The International Journal of Health Planning and Management. [SCI, Impact Factor: 2.3]
7. Mohanty, S. K., Padhi, B., Singh, R. R., & Sahoo, U. (2022). Comparable estimates of out-of-pocket payment on hospitalisation and outpatient services in India, 2004-18. Clinical Epidemiology and Global Health, 101139. [SCI, Impact Factor: 2.6]
2021
8. Nayak, S. R., Mohanty, S. K., Mahapatra, B., & Sahoo, U. (2021). Spatial heterogeneity in discontinuation of modern spacing method in districts of India. Reproductive health, 18(1), 1-12. [SCI, Impact Factor: 3.4]
9. Mishra, R. S., Mohanty, S. K., Cordes, J., Sahoo, U., Singh, R. R., & Subramanian, S. V. (2021). Economic gradient of onset of disability in India. BMC public health, 21(1), 1-11. [SCI, Impact Factor: 4.1]
10. Vasishtha, G., Mohanty, S. K., Mishra, U. S., Dubey, M., & Sahoo, U. (2021). Impact of COVID-19 infection on life expectancy, premature mortality, and DALY in Maharashtra, India. BMC infectious diseases, 21(1), 1-11. [SCI, Impact Factor: 3.7]
2020
11. Mohanty, S. K., Sahoo, U., Mishra, U. S., & Dubey, M. (2020). Age Pattern of Premature Mortality under varying scenarios of COVID-19 Infection in India. medRxiv.
12. Mohanty, S. K., Dubey, M., Mishra, U. S., & Sahoo, U. (2020). Impact of COVID-19 attributable deaths on longevity, premature mortality and DALY: Estimates of USA, Italy, Sweden and Germany. MedRxiv.
13. 1. Mohanty SK, Padhi B, Singh RR, Sahoo U (2020). Comparable estimates of Household Health Spending and Out-of-Pocket Payment on Hospitalization and Outpatient Care in India, 2004-18; IIPS Working Paper Series No 21. Link; https://iipsindia.ac.in/sites/default/files/IIPS_Working_Paper_Series_No_21_0.pdf

National Publications

2023
1. Mishra, U. S., Mohanty, S. K., & Sahoo, U. (2023). Household, individual and episodic incidences of illness, hospitalization and health spending in India, 2017-18. Demography India, 52(1).

International Conferences

1. Presented a paper on "Burden of Chronic Non-Communicable Diseases and household Catastrophic Health Spending among elderly households in India" at International Seminar of "Applications of Statistical Computing & Data Analytics-2022 (ASCDA-2022), Sambalpur University
2. Conference attend on “International COVID-19 Conference, Stanford University School of Medicine”, California
3. Conference attend on “The R Foundation for Statistical Computing, Institute of Statistics and Mathematics”, Vienna, Austria
4. Conference attend on “The R Foundation for Statistical Computing, Institute of Statistics and Mathematics”, Vienna, Austria
5. Poster Presentation on “Inequality in healthcare utilization by need and non-need factors associated with chronic NCDs among adult and elderly in India: An Evidence from Longitudinal Ageing Study India” in the conference organized by International Union for the Scientific Study of Population (IUSSP)
6. Poster Presentation on “Incidence and intensity of catastrophic health expenditure by household composition: Evidence from Longitudinal Ageing Study in India: An Evidence from Longitudinal Ageing Study India” in the conference organized by International Union for the Scientific Study of Population (IUSSP)

National Conferences

1. Presented a research paper titled "Inequality in Need Predicted Utilization of Healthcare services among middle-aged adults and elderly in India: A secondary analysis from LASI wave-I" at XXVIII IIPS National Seminar-2024, Organized by Department of Statistics, Institute of Sciences, Banaras Hindu University (BHU), Varanasi during 12-13 February, 2024
2. Presented a research paper titled “Risk factors of anemia among pregnant, lactating and non-pregnant non lactating women in India: An evidence from National Family health survey” – Presented at National Conclave on “Public health Nutrition: Enriching the cycle of Research, public policy and practices(PHN), 2020” organized by NIT, Rourkela
3. Presented a research paper titled " Risk factors of anaemia among lactating mothers in India: Evidence from National Family Health Survey, 2019-21" at the 2nd National Conclave on “Public Health Nutrition: Measuring progress towards achieving Sustainable Development Goals” on December 16-17, 2022 at NIT Rourkela.

Workshops

1. Presented a paper on "Burden of Chronic Non-Communicable Diseases and household Catastrophic Health Spending among elderly households in India" at International Seminar of "Applications of Statistical Computing & Data Analytics-2022 (ASCDA-2022), Sambalpur University
2. Participated a pre-conference workshop on "National Transfer Accounts (NTA) held on Feb 11, 2024 at Department of Statistics, Institute of Science, Banaras Hindu University (BHU), Varanasi
3. Attended worshop on “Skill-based Workshop on SPSS”, Organized by Department of Statistics, Utkal University, Vanivihar, Bhubaneswar, Odisha, (2016)
4. Attended “Skill-based Workshop on R Programming”, Organized by Department of Statistics, Utkal University, Vanivihar, Bhubaneswar, Odisha, (2017)
5. Attended workshop on “Designing Clinical Trials and Value Propositions”, Organized by International Institute for Population Sciences (IIPS) Mumbai, India, (2020)
6. Attended workshop “Applied Econometric Methods”, Organized by International Institute for Population Sciences (IIPS) Mumbai, India, (2020)
7. Attended “Machine Learning”, Organized by Gender Health Project and Qualcom Institute with IIPS, Mumbai, (2020)
8. Attended workshop on “Academic Book Writing & Related Topics”, Organized by Springer, Nature, (2020)
9. Attended workshop on “Data Analysis and Statistical Computing”, Organized by Department of Statistics, Institute of Social Sciences, Dr. Bhimrao Ambedkar University, Agra, (2020)
10. Participated National Workshop on “Geo-spatial Techniques and COVID-19: Challenges and Opportunities”, Organized by Savitri Bai Phule Mahila Mahavidyalaya, Sikar, Rajasthan, (2020)
11. Attended workshop on “An Introduction to R: A Demographic and Spatial Analysis”, Organized by International Institute for Population Sciences (IIPS) Mumbai, India, (2021)
12. Attended workshop on “Designing and Conducting Clinical Trials”, Organized by Public Health Foundation of India (PHFI), Gurugram, India – (2021)

1. Sahoo, U., Akhtar, S. (2023). Utilization of Inpatient and Outpatient Health Services and Associated Cost for Chronic Diseases Among Older Adults in India: Evidences from Longitudinal Ageing Survey in India 2017–2018. In: Handbook of Aging, Health and Public Policy. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-16-1914-4_106-1

1. Organised a one-day International Seminar on Applications of Statistical Computing & Data Analytics-2022 (ASCDA-2022) on the occasion of National Statistics Day, 2022, Department of Statistics, Sambalpur University
2. Co-Convenor of National Seminar on "Applications of Statistics & Artificial Intelligence in Emerging Scenarios-2023 (ASAIES-2023) on 3rd March 2023, Department of Statistics, Sambalpur University

1. Assistant Controller of Examination (ACOE), Centre for Distance and Online Education (CDOE), SU, 2024 (Continue)
2. Assistant Controller of Examination (ACOE), Private Examination Cell (PEC), SU, 2024 (Continue)
3. Assistant Superintendent, Bhagirathi Gents Hostel, 2024 (Continue)
4. Officer-in-charge (OIC), Electrical Maintenance, USIC, Sambalpur University
5. Board of Studies member, Dept. of Statistics, Sambalpur University
6. Committee member of Scholarship section, Special cell, Sambalpur University
7. Core committee member of NIRF (2022, 2023), Sambalpur University

Present Address :  Dr. Umakanta Sahoo Assistant Professor PG. Department of Statistics Sambalpur University, Jyoti Vihar, Burla-768019 Sambalpur, Odisha, India

Permanent Address :  Dr. Umakanta Sahoo C/o- Udayanath Sahoo Nuagaon, Bazar Sahi, Near Police Station Nayagarh, Odisha-752083 Mob no- 8355941958, 8658046753 Email- sahooumakanta0@gmail.com