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Dr. Apoorva Jadhav is a demographer with over 15 years of experience driving transformative change in global health and international development through demographic expertise. She most recently served as the Senior Demographer and Statistician at the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), where she was the Agency’s chief demographic expert, providing strategic oversight for demographic surveys, analyses, and studies in USAID-assisted countries. She has helped manage USAID’s multi-million dollar investments in the Demographic and Health Surveys (DHS-7 to DHS-9, $260M) and international censuses (with the U.S. Census Bureau, $90M). Dr. Jadhav provided executive-level leadership on the linkages between population dynamics and socioeconomic development, helping shape Agency-wide policy and programmatic priorities. Prior to her role at USAID, Dr. Jadhav was a National Institute on Aging Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Michigan, where she contributed to the Health and Retirement Study, focusing on the design, analysis, and policy implications of aging, with a specific focus on India. Dr. Jadhav holds a Ph.D. in Demography from the University of Pennsylvania, an MPH in Population and Reproductive Health from Emory University, and a BA in Public Health from Johns Hopkins University.