Abhaya Indrayan

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{{Cite web |title=Department of Statistics, The Ohio State University, Graduation Year: 1975–1979 |url=http://www.stat.osu.edu/people/alumni/1975-1979 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161216131011/https://www.stat.osu.edu/people/alumni/1975-1979 |archive-date=16 December 2016 |access-date=7 July 2024}} from Ohio State University in Columbus, Ohio, USA.

Abhaya Indrayan was the founding Professor and Head of the Department of Biostatistics and Medical Informatics{{Cite web |title=UCMS - BMI |url=https://www.ucms.ac.in/departments/bmi |access-date=2024-07-15 |website=www.ucms.ac.in}} 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.

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{{Cite web |title=Dr. Abhaya Indrayan |url=https://www.statistics.com/instructor/dr-abhaya-indrayan/ |access-date=2024-07-15 |website=Statistics.com: Data Science, Analytics & Statistics Courses |language=en-US}} in Arlington County, Virginia.

He has more than 290 publications to his credit,{{Cite web |title=Publications |url=https://indrayan.weebly.com/publications.html |access-date=2024-07-15 |website=Abhaya INDRAYAN |language=en}} including the books Medical Biostatistics{{Cite web |title=Medical Biostatistics |url=https://www.routledge.com/Medical-Biostatistics/Indrayan-Malhotra/p/book/9781498799539 |access-date=2024-07-15 |website=Routledge & CRC Press |language=en}} and Concise Encyclopedia of Biostatistics for Medical Professionals.{{Cite web |title=Concise Encyclopedia of Biostatistics for Medical Professionals |url=https://www.routledge.com/Concise-Encyclopedia-of-Biostatistics-for-Medical-Professionals/Indrayan-Holt/p/book/9781482243871 |access-date=2024-07-15 |website=Routledge & CRC Press |language=en}} A partial list of his publications appears at the website of Indian Academy of Sciences.{{Cite web |title=Browse by Fellow - Publications of the IAS Fellows |url=http://repository.ias.ac.in/view/fellows/Indrayan=3AAbhaya=3A=3A.html |access-date=2024-07-15 |website=repository.ias.ac.in}} Among his other significant works are: smoking index{{Cite journal |last1=Indrayan |first1=Abhaya |last2=Kumar |first2=Rajeev |last3=Dwivedi |first3=Shridhar |date=2008-11-06 |title=A SIMPLE INDEX OF SMOKING |url=https://biostats.bepress.com/cobra/art40 |journal=COBRA Preprint Series}} at Collection of Biostatistics Research Archive of Berkeley Electronic Press, which was among the top 5 downloads;{{Cite web |title=bepress.com - Log In Required |url=https://login.bepress.com/login/?next=/auth/authorize/%3Fresponse_type%3Dcode%26redirect_uri%3Dhttps%253A%252F%252Fresources.bepress.com%252Fcgi%252Flogin.cgi%253Freturn_to%253Dhttp%25253A%25252F%25252Freadership.works.bepress.com%25252F%25253F.authP%25253Dauthdash%25252Cuserid%25252C.authTX%26client_id%3D673F58F2VPQ9P4MN7DA3577MFKPAYE279K9VWJZ2%26state%3DD6aCmQNZBwK2zumH2qScBkr6NKvNfeRe%26scope%3Dopenid%2520profile#/ |access-date=2024-07-15 |website=login.bepress.com}} and estimates and projections of cardiovascular and diabetes cases in India,{{Cite web |last=Indrayan |first=Abhaya |title=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 |url=http://origin.searo.who.int/india/topics/cardiovascular_diseases/Commision_on_Macroeconomic_and_Health_Bg_P2_Forecasting_vascular_disease_cases_and_associated_mortality_in_India.pdf |url-status=dead |archive-url=http://webarchive.loc.gov/all/20200403073310/http://origin.searo.who.int/india/topics/cardiovascular_diseases/Commision_on_Macroeconomic_and_Health_Bg_P2_Forecasting_vascular_disease_cases_and_associated_mortality_in_India.pdf |archive-date=3 April 2020 |access-date=7 July 2024}} which were quoted in the Government of India's official estimates at National Health Profile.{{Cite web |last=Indrayan |first=Abhaya |title=Health Status Indicators, National Health Profile of India 2011, Government of India, pages 97 and 100 |url=http://cbhidghs.nic.in/writereaddata/mainlinkFile/08%20Health%20Status%20%20Indicators%20%202011.pdf |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130927114556/http://cbhidghs.nic.in/writereaddata/mainlinkFile/08%20Health%20Status%20%20Indicators%20%202011.pdf |archive-date=27 September 2013 |access-date=7 July 2024}}

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

Abhaya Indrayan collaborated with the World Health Organization for several projects including National Burden of Disease Studies: a Practical Guide,{{Cite journal |last1=Mathers |first1=C. |last2=Vos |first2=T. |last3=Lopez |first3=Alan D. |last4=Salomon |first4=J. |date=2001 |title=National burden of disease Studies: a practical guide. Global Program on Evidence for Health Policy |journal=Semantics Scholar|s2cid=79169108 }} Teaching Health Statistics,{{Cite book |last1=Lwanga |first1=Stephen Kaggwa |url=https://iris.who.int/handle/10665/42079 |title=Teaching health statistics : lesson and seminar outlines |last2=Tye |first2=Cho-Yook |last3=Ayeni |first3=O. |last4=Organization |first4=World Health |date=1999 |publisher=World Health Organization |isbn=978-92-4-154518-1 |language=tr}} and 11 Health Questions about the 11 SEAR Countries,{{Cite journal |title=11 Health Questions about 11 SEAR Countries, World Health Organization, SEARO, 1999 |url=http://apps.who.int/iris/handle/10665/204719 |journal=International Repository for Information Sharing|date=2007 |hdl=10665/204719 |isbn=978-92-9022-247-7 }} and served as Temporary Adviser to their Bi-Regional Consultation.{{Cite web |title=Report on Regional Consultation and Technical Workshop on Health Systems Performance Assessment, WHO/SEARO, New Delhi, 18–21 June 2001 |url=http://whqlibdoc.who.int/publications/2003/9241562455.pdf |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130927125204/http://www.who.int/health-systems-performance/regional_consultations/searo_report.pdf |archive-date=27 September 2013 |access-date=7 July 2024}} He was a technical editor of their biregional report Health in Asia and the Pacific{{Cite web |title=Health in Asia and the Pacific, World Health Organization, South East Asia Region and Western Pacific Region, 2008 |url=http://www.wpro.who.int/health_information_evidence/documents/Health_in_Asia_Pacific.pdf |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170810145659/http://www.wpro.who.int/health_information_evidence/documents/Health_in_Asia_Pacific.pdf |archive-date=10 August 2017 |access-date=7 July 2024}} and participated in their debate on Health Systems Performance Assessment.{{Cite journal |last=Murray |first=Christopher J. L. |title=Health Systems Performance Assessment: Debates, Methods and Empiricism (eds. CJL Murray and DB Evans), World Health Organization, SEARO, 1999 |url=http://apps.who.int/iris/handle/10665/42735 |journal=Institutional Repository for Information Sharing|date=2003 |hdl=10665/42735 |isbn=978-92-4-156245-4 }} 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{{Cite journal |last=Indrayan |first=Abhaya |date=October 2017 |title=Statistical Medicine |journal=Journal of Postgraduate Medicine |volume=63 |issue=4 |pages=252–256 |doi=10.4103/jpgm.JPGM_189_17 |pmc=5664870 |pmid=29022563 |s2cid=5395045 |doi-access=free}} as a new emerging medical specialty, proposed biomarkers for quantitatively measuring positive health,{{Cite journal |last1=Indrayan |first1=Abhaya |last2=Vishwakarma |first2=Gayatri |last3=Verma |first3=Saumya |last4=Sarmukaddam |first4=Sanjeev |last5=Tyagi |first5=Asha |date=2023 |title=Quest for Biomarkers of Positive Health: A Review |journal=Indian Journal of Community Medicine |volume=48 |issue=3 |pages=382–389 |doi=10.4103/ijcm.ijcm_480_22 |doi-access=free |issn=0970-0218 |pmid=37469906|pmc=10353687 }} and a simple method to measure quantitative agreement.{{Cite journal |last=Indrayan |first=Abhaya |date=May 2023 |title=Direct Use of Clinical Tolerance Limits for Assessing the Degree of Agreement between Two Methods of Measuring Blood Pressure |url=https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/37137481/ |journal=Southern Medical Journal |volume=116 |issue=5 |pages=435–439 |doi=10.14423/SMJ.0000000000001551 |issn=1541-8243 |pmid=37137481}}

• Elected Fellow of the Indian Academy of Sciences{{Cite web |title=Fellowship, Indian Academy of Sciences |url=http://www.ias.ac.in/search/fellow |url-status= |archive-url= |archive-date= |access-date=7 July 2024}} (2010).
• Fellow of the Royal Statistical Society.{{Cite web |title=Fellowship, Royal Statistical Society, login required |url=https://www.rss.org.uk/site/mysite/viewhosted.asp?id=27 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://archive.today/20130505153554/https://www.rss.org.uk/site/mysite/viewhosted.asp?id=27 |archive-date=5 May 2013 |access-date=7 July 2024}} (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{{Cite web |date=2016 |title=List of Fellows - NAMS |url=http://www.nams-india.in/downloads/fellowsmembers/ZZ.pdf |access-date=15 July 2024}} (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{{Cite web |title=ISMS Presidents |url=https://www.isms-ind.org/office-bearers.pdf}} (2015)

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

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