Nitin Datta

Technical Specialist
Bio: 

Nitin Datta is technical specialist at the International Center for Research on Women's (ICRW) Asia Regional Office where he is responsible for the quantitative research activities for the IMPACCT project and also provides technical support for qualitative research. Datta works closely with research partner agencies for implementing the IMPACCT project.

Datta has worked as technical support on various research and evaluation projects in areas of maternal and child health, HIV/AIDS and reproductive health. Datta specializes in monitoring and evaluation of health programs, including developing MIS system, research designs, data management and analysis. He has experience using both quantitative and qualitative research methodologies and software programs like SPSS, STATA, ATLAS TI. Prior to joining ICRW, he has worked for FHI360 (CDC-funded project on strategic information with NACO), Population Council (Gates Foundation-RMNCHN project), Futures Group (USAID-funded ITAP project on family planning, maternal and child health) and IIM Bangalore-UCSF collaborative research study (National Institute of Child Health and Human Development funded SAMATA Health study on HIV and gender based violence). As MPhil candidate, Datta collected and analyzed data on prostate cancer patients from hospital and Mumbai cancer registry.

Expertise: 

Research and Anlysis, Measurement and Evaluation, Maternal health, HIV and AIDS

Languages Spoken: 

Hindi (native), English (fluent)

Education: 

Datta has MPhil in Population Sciences from the International Institute for Population Sciences. He also holds Master’s degree in Economics, and Bachelor’s degree in Mathematics, Physics & Chemistry from Lucknow University.

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