Sandhya Barge

Dr. Sandhya Barge has experience of more than three decades in the area of social science research. With a Ph.D. in Demography from International Institute for Population Sciences (IIPS), Bombay University. Her masters’ degree is in Anthropology from Pune University. Her research activities have been on various social and developmental issues. She has the expertise of quantitative research methodology and qualitative research.

Dr. Barge has been the Principal Investigator/Co-investigator of more than 250 projects funded by Government of India, National and International agencies. Area of work includes Reproductive Health, Abortion, Living Wage, HIV and AIDS, Child Labour, Adolescents, Urban Poverty, Water and Sanitation, etc. Work responsibility included conceptualization of study, planning and implementation of the study.

Dr. Barge served as Executive Director at the time of leaving Centre for Operations Research and Training (CORT), Vadodara, she worked with it since its inception in 1991. She was one of the founder members of CORT. Prior to this she has worked for four years with Operations Research Group (ORG), Vadodara. She has also been involved in building technical capacity. She has one published book, prepared number of technical reports, papers and presented papers in large number of national and international conferences.