Rati Kapoor is a Data Manager in the Nutrition, Diets, and Health Unit, based in the South Asia Office in New Delhi. She works as a part of the POSHAN (Partnerships and Opportunities to Strengthen and Harmonize Action for Nutrition in India) team and contributes to research and project activities focused on nutrition outcomes and on determinants of undernutrition.

Prior to joining IFPRI, Rati worked in the public health sector, where she was involved in mental health, surveillance, and hospital-based projects. She is proficient in Stata and NVivo software for quantitative and qualitative data analysis and has in-depth knowledge of meta-analysis, questionnaire design, and certification in good clinical practices. Her research interests include demography, public health policy, epidemiology, biostatistics, mental health, surveillance, and qualitative and quantitative research methods and analysis. She has a master’s degree in Biostatistics and Demography from the International Institute for Population Sciences, Mumbai, as well as a double master’s degree in Health-Statistics and Statistics.