A. K. Sharma
Professor of Sociology
Department of Humanities & Social Sciences
Indian Institute of Technology

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Papers Presented in International Conferences and Seminars

Palliative Health Care in India: Some Observations, Seminar on Public Health Care in India and Canada, Canadian Studies Development Programme, Banaras Hindu University (BHU), 5-6 Feb. 2011 (jointly with T. Shukkoor).

 Social exclusion due to Stigma among People Suffering from TB: a study of Ladakh, India, International Conference on Health, Wellness and Society, University of California Berkeley, USA, 20-22 January 2011 (jointly with Sonal Mobar).

 Economy and sex determination: A Study of Sex Determination and Female Feticide in a Peri-urban Area of Northern India, International Conference on Demography, Culture and Marketing, 2010, Xavier Institute of Management, Bhubaneswar, 14-16 December, 2010 (jointly with Rohini Ghosh).

 Socio-ecology of Domestic Water Consumption in India: A Comparative Study of Scarcity and Contamination Regions, German Environmental Sociology Summit 2007, Leuphana University of Luneburg, Germany, 8-10 November 2007 (jointly with Pradip Swarnakar).

Redefining Vulnerabilities: A Study of Men having Sex with Men in the Wake of HIV Epidemic in Mumbai, India, 2007 Annual Meeting of Population Association of America, New York, 29-31 March 2007 (jointly with Ashish K. Mishra).

Deconstructing Sexuality and the Need for Developing an Institutional Mechanism to Redress Problems Faced by Men Having Sex with Men, poster presentation in International Conference on Emerging Issues in the Asia Pacific Region: Challenges for the 21^st Century, International Institute for Population Sciences, Grand Hyatt, Mumbai, 10-13 December 2006 (jointly with Ashish K. Mishra and S. K. Singh).

Understanding Environmental Concern: A Study Using New Environmental Paradigm Scale, International Conference on Emerging Issues in the Asia Pacific Region: Challenges for the 21^st Century, International Institute for Population Sciences, Grand Hyatt, Mumbai, 10-13 December 2006 (jointly with Pradip Swarnakar).

Social Representations of HIV/AIDS: A Study of Adolescents and Young Adults in Lalitpur District of Uttar Pradesh, International Conference on Emerging Issues in the Asia Pacific Region: Challenges for the 21^st Century, International Institute for Population Sciences, Grand Hyatt, Mumbai, 10-13 December 2006 (jointly with Rita Singh and Ashish K. Mishra).

Understanding Environmental Concerns: An Indian Experience of Sustainable Domestic Water Consumption, Sustainable Consumption and Society: An International Working Conference for Social Scientists, June 2nd to 3rd, 2006, sponsored by Research Committee 24 (RC24) on Environment and Society of the International Sociological Association and co-Sponsored by the Department of Rural Sociology and the Agroecology Program, University of Wisconsin-Madison, http://www.michaelmbell.net/suscon-program.htm, [accessed on 10 June 2006] (jointly with Pradip Swarnakar).

Social Representations and the Problem of Arsenic Contamination:  A Study of Four Villages of West Bengal,  Poster presentation in 3-day International Summit on Linking across Millennium Development Goals, TERI, New Delhi, 1-3 February 2006 (jointly with Pradip Swarnakar).

Two men Together: Love, Sex and Risk in the wake of HIV Epidemic in India, XXV International Population Conference, International Union for the Scientific Study of Population (IUSSP), France, 18-23 July, 2005 (jointly with Ashish Kumar Mishra,  Shrikant Singh and Sudipta Mondal).

Routes to General Population: Redefining Vulnerability in the International Conference on People’s Sexual and Reproductive Health Needs in Asia: Progress, Achievements and Ways Forward, Organized by Centre for Operations Research and Training (CORT), Baroda, in collaboration with WHO, Population Council, Pathfinder International, Family Planning Association of India, CST-UNFPA Nepal, and CRDC Baroda, at The Claridges Hotel, New Delhi, 2-4 Dec. 2004 (jointly with Ashish Kumar Mishra and S. K. Singh).

Dilemmas in Sustainable Development, International Conference on Population, Development and Environment, BITS Pilani, supported by UNFPA, IIPS and UGC, 15- 16 March 2002 (jointly with Vigneswara Ilavarsan P).

Maternal Mortality Rates: Levels, Trends and Causes, International Conference on Safe Motherhood in South Asia: Challenges Ahead, Society for International Development, Chandigarh, Hotel Mountiview, 3-5 March 1994.

Methods in Social Demography, in the International Population Conference held at Vigyan Bhawan, New Delhi, 20-27, Sept. 1989.

Population policy and Productivity Management, in the International Conference on Population Policy Perspectives, held at IIPS Bombay, 1-4, Dec. 1981.