Abhaya Indrayan

Dr. Abhaya Indrayan
Born	(1945-11-11) 11 November 1945 (age 79) Meerut, Uttar Pradesh India
Nationality	Indian
Other names	A. Indrayan
Occupation	Professor
Known for	His work on medical biostatistics
Spouse	married
Children	2

Abhaya Indrayan (born 11 November 1945) is an Indian professor and researcher of Biostatistics. He had worked with different organizations and universities, including Delhi University College of Medical Sciences and the World Health Organization.

Abhaya resides in Delhi NCR, India after his retirement. He is married and has two children.

Early life and education

Abhaya Indrayan was born on 11 November 1945, in Meerut, India. He was born during the time that India was fighting for its freedom from the British rule. That was the reason why his father, who was a freedom fighter, was jailed repeatedly for long periods.

Abhaya took his early education in Meerut from N.A.S. Inter. College and Meerut College. In 1977, he received his master's degree and Doctoral degree ^[1] from Ohio State University in Columbus, Ohio, USA.

Career

Abhaya Indrayan was the founding Professor and Head of the Department of Biostatistics and Medical Informatics ^[2] in Delhi University College of Medical Sciences. In 1995, his department was set up as an independent division, and was upgraded to a full department in 2005. ^[2]

During his tenure in the college since 1979, he had been the Sports Adviser, Coordinator of Medical Education Unit, Chairman Computer Committee, Convenor Souvenir Committee, Incharge Annual Reports and held several other important assignments. He also taught online courses for the students of Institute of Statistics Education ^[3] in Arlington County, Virginia.

He has more than 290 publications to his credit, ^[4] including the books Medical Biostatistics ^[5] and Concise Encyclopedia of Biostatistics for Medical Professionals. ^[6] A partial list of his publications appears at the website of Indian Academy of Sciences. ^[7] Among his other significant works are: smoking index ^[8] at Collection of Biostatistics Research Archive of Berkeley Electronic Press, which was among the top 5 downloads; ^[9] and estimates and projections of cardiovascular and diabetes cases in India, ^[10] which were quoted in the Government of India's official estimates at National Health Profile. ^[11]

He stayed in the institution until retiring in 2010, wherein he attained the age of 65.

Achievements

Abhaya Indrayan collaborated with the World Health Organization for several projects including National Burden of Disease Studies: a Practical Guide, ^[12] Teaching Health Statistics, ^[13] and 11 Health Questions about the 11 SEAR Countries, ^[14] and served as Temporary Adviser to their Bi-Regional Consultation. ^[15] He was a technical editor of their biregional report Health in Asia and the Pacific ^[16] and participated in their debate on Health Systems Performance Assessment. ^[17] He has completed 32 assignments for the World Health Organization, 3 for the World Bank, 3 for UNAIDS and 2 for Danish Assistance to the National Program for Prevention and Control of Blindness. He has proposed Statistical Medicine ^[18] as a new emerging medical specialty, proposed biomarkers for quantitatively measuring positive health, ^[19] and a simple method to measure quantitative agreement. ^[20]

Honors and awards

• Elected Fellow of the Indian Academy of Sciences ^[21] (2010).
• Fellow of the Royal Statistical Society. ^[22] (2002)
• Elected Fellow of the National Academy of Medical Sciences (India) – a rare distinction for a non-medical scientist to be so honoured at that time ^[23] (1999)
• Elected Fellow of the Indian Society for Medical Statistics (1996)
• WHO Fellow and Visiting Research Scientist at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA (1995)
• Chairman, Silver Jubilee Committee, Indian Society for Medical Statistics (2008–2011)
• President-Elect of the Indian Society for Medical Statistics (2012–2014)
• President, Indian Society for Medical Statistics ^[24] (2015)

Bibliography

• Indrayan, A. and Malhotra, RK. (2017). Medical Biostatistics (4th ed.). CRC Press. ISBN   978-1-4987-9953-9.
• Indrayan, A. (2017). Basic Methods of Medical Research (4th ed.). AITBS Publishers. ISBN   978-81-7473-335-1.
• Indrayan, A. and Holt, M.P. (2016). Concise Encyclopedia of Biostatistics for Medical Professionals. CRC Press. ISBN   978-1-4822-4387-1.
• Indrayan, A. (2013). Simple Biostatistics for MBBS, PG Entrance and USMLE (4th ed.). Academa Publishers. ISBN   978-81-88511-74-7.
• Indrayan, A. (2006). Biostatistics for Medical, Nursing and Pharmacy Students (1st ed.). PHI Learning. ISBN   978-81-203-3054-2.
• Indrayan, A. (1997). HIV/AIDS Research in India. National AIDS Control Organization.
• Indrayan, A. (1986). Solution Manual for Introduction to Statistical Methods, Volume 1. Rowman & Allanheld.

References

1. "Department of Statistics, The Ohio State University, Graduation Year: 1975–1979". Archived from the original on 16 December 2016. Retrieved 7 July 2024.
2. "UCMS - BMI". www.ucms.ac.in. Retrieved 15 July 2024.
3. "Dr. Abhaya Indrayan". Statistics.com: Data Science, Analytics & Statistics Courses. Retrieved 15 July 2024.
4. "Publications". Abhaya INDRAYAN. Retrieved 15 July 2024.
5. "Medical Biostatistics". Routledge & CRC Press. Retrieved 15 July 2024.
6. "Concise Encyclopedia of Biostatistics for Medical Professionals". Routledge & CRC Press. Retrieved 15 July 2024.
7. "Browse by Fellow - Publications of the IAS Fellows". repository.ias.ac.in. Retrieved 15 July 2024.
8. Indrayan, Abhaya; Kumar, Rajeev; Dwivedi, Shridhar (6 November 2008). "A SIMPLE INDEX OF SMOKING". COBRA Preprint Series.
9. "bepress.com - Log In Required". login.bepress.com. Retrieved 15 July 2024.
10. Indrayan, Abhaya. "Forecasting vascular disease cases and associated mortality in India, Background Papers, Burden of Disease in India, National Commission on Macroeconomics and Health, Government of India, 2005" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 3 April 2020. Retrieved 7 July 2024.
11. Indrayan, Abhaya. "Health Status Indicators, National Health Profile of India 2011, Government of India, pages 97 and 100" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 27 September 2013. Retrieved 7 July 2024.
12. Mathers, C.; Vos, T.; Lopez, Alan D.; Salomon, J. (2001). "National burden of disease Studies: a practical guide. Global Program on Evidence for Health Policy". Semantics Scholar. S2CID   79169108.
13. Lwanga, Stephen Kaggwa; Tye, Cho-Yook; Ayeni, O.; Organization, World Health (1999). Teaching health statistics : lesson and seminar outlines (in Turkish). World Health Organization. ISBN   978-92-4-154518-1.
14. "11 Health Questions about 11 SEAR Countries, World Health Organization, SEARO, 1999". International Repository for Information Sharing. 2007. hdl:10665/204719. ISBN   978-92-9022-247-7.
15. "Report on Regional Consultation and Technical Workshop on Health Systems Performance Assessment, WHO/SEARO, New Delhi, 18–21 June 2001" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 27 September 2013. Retrieved 7 July 2024.
16. "Health in Asia and the Pacific, World Health Organization, South East Asia Region and Western Pacific Region, 2008" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 10 August 2017. Retrieved 7 July 2024.
17. Murray, Christopher J. L. (2003). "Health Systems Performance Assessment: Debates, Methods and Empiricism (eds. CJL Murray and DB Evans), World Health Organization, SEARO, 1999". Institutional Repository for Information Sharing. hdl:10665/42735. ISBN   978-92-4-156245-4.
18. Indrayan, Abhaya (October 2017). "Statistical Medicine". Journal of Postgraduate Medicine. 63 (4): 252–256. doi: 10.4103/jpgm.JPGM_189_17 . PMC   5664870 . PMID   29022563. S2CID   5395045.
19. Indrayan, Abhaya; Vishwakarma, Gayatri; Verma, Saumya; Sarmukaddam, Sanjeev; Tyagi, Asha (2023). "Quest for Biomarkers of Positive Health: A Review". Indian Journal of Community Medicine. 48 (3): 382–389. doi: 10.4103/ijcm.ijcm_480_22 . ISSN   0970-0218. PMC   10353687 . PMID   37469906.
20. Indrayan, Abhaya (May 2023). "Direct Use of Clinical Tolerance Limits for Assessing the Degree of Agreement between Two Methods of Measuring Blood Pressure". Southern Medical Journal. 116 (5): 435–439. doi:10.14423/SMJ.0000000000001551. ISSN   1541-8243. PMID   37137481.
21. "Fellowship, Indian Academy of Sciences" . Retrieved 7 July 2024.
22. "Fellowship, Royal Statistical Society, login required". Archived from the original on 5 May 2013. Retrieved 7 July 2024.
23. "List of Fellows - NAMS" (PDF). 2016. Retrieved 15 July 2024.
24. "ISMS Presidents" (PDF).