Amit Patel
Biographic Data
| ID | 3928876 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Amit Patel |
| GIVEN NAMES | Amit |
| FAMILY NAME | Patel |
| SIGNATURE | PATEL A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Massachusetts Boston |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9058-6890 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 20 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 38 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 20 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2006 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Broadening the lens
Agent-Based Modeling of Covid-19 Transmission
The differential transmission of COVID-19 depending on the socio-economic status of a neighborhood is well established. For example, several studies have shown that COVID-19 transmission was higher in poorer and denser neighborhoods than in wealthier ones. However, what is less well known is how this varied rate of transmission interacted with established health measures, i.e., face masks and lockdowns, in the context of developing countries to r…
Post Covid sequelae among Covid-19 survivors
INTRODUCTION: The effects of COVID-19 infection persist beyond the active phase. Comprehensive description and analysis of the post COVID sequelae in various population groups are critical to minimise the long-term morbidity and mortality associated with COVID-19. This analysis was conducted with an objective to estimate the frequency of post COVID sequelae and subsequently, design a framework for holistic management of post COVID morbidities. ME…
How applicable are scaling laws in predicting slum populations in urban systems? Evidence from India
Recently, we have seen new developments in our understanding of the emergence and organization of cities and urban systems, including application of scaling laws to urban areas. A recent wave of studies has observed consistent behavior of multiple urban measures that scale with city size across geographic and sectoral contexts. However, the extant evidence is lacking in two important ways: first, a wide variety of urban measures still remain unex…
Migration and health
Identifying kidney trade networks using web scraping data
Kidney trade has been on the rise despite the domestic and international law enforcement aiming to protect the vulnerable population from potential exploitation. Regional hubs are emerging in several parts of the world including South Asia, Central America, the Middle East and East Asia. Kidney trade networks reported in these hot spots are often complex systems involving several players such as buyers, sellers and surgery countries operating acr…
Accelerating Progress towards Universal Water Sanitation and Hygiene (Wash)
Access to safe water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) continues to be a universal challenge that affects human health and well-being. The latest global reports from the Joint Monitoring Programme (JMP) for Water Supply, Sanitation and Hygiene led by the World Health Organization (WHO) and the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) have highlighted the global scale of WASH issues, particularly in the least developed countries (LDCs). In 2020, it wa…
Predicting housing deprivation from space in the slums of Dhaka
Cities in developing countries have been struggling to deal with the pressures of urbanization on infrastructure, basic services, land, and housing that often manifest as poor living conditions found in slums and informal settlements. One of the key challenges to effectively target policy interventions and meet Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) for improving lives of people living in slums is the lack of data on their housing condition. Furthe…
Slum-dwellers as experts
Unlocking the potential plant growth‐promoting properties of chickpea ( Cicer arietinum L.) seed endophytes bio‐inoculants for improving soil health and crop production
Sustainable agronomic practices are tried all over the world to promote safe and eco‐friendly crop production. Therefore, in the present study, the effect of seed endophytic bacteria and its consortium on soil biochemical property and yield of chickpea ( Cicer arietinum L.) under field and pot conditions are investigated. Both the experimental results proved a significant increase in total soil organic carbon (OC), electric conductivity (EC), org…
Gendered Impacts of Environmental Degradation in Informal Settlements
Degraded urban environments disproportionately affect marginalized populations, and especially impoverished women in South Asia’s informal settlements, where climate change vulnerabilities and gender inequalities are extreme. A comparative analysis was conducted of three neighboring countries, India, Bangladesh, and Pakistan, where urban environments, climate risks, and gender relations exhibit significant variances. With original survey data fro…
Measuring multiple housing deprivations in urban India using Slum Severity Index
Around one billion people who live in slums globally have low quality housing and poor living conditions (UN, 2020). However, such global estimates do not provide a full description of different types of deprivations experienced by the urban poor, often resulting in inaccurate estimates of the extent of housing challenge. An all-encompassing, single analytical category of “slums” limits its usefulness for planning and policymaking purposes. Slum …
Measuring Deprivations in the Slums of Bangladesh
Approximately 880 million people, or one in four urban residents, live in slums today. While this enumeration is useful, it is not a trivial exercise to estimate slum population for a city, let alone globally, especially when the definition of a slum remains a debatable construct. To demonstrate this point empirically, we utilize a household survey from nine cities in Bangladesh and provide three different estimates of slum population based on th…
Measuring deprivations in the slums of Bangladesh
Approximately 880 million people, or one in four urban residents, live in slums today. While this enumeration is useful, it is not a trivial exercise to estimate slum population for a city, let alone globally, especially when the definition of a slum remains a debatable construct. To demonstrate this point empirically, we utilize a household survey from nine cities in Bangladesh and provide three different estimates of slum population based on th…
Assessment of health-related quality of life, mental health status and psychological distress based on the type of pharmacotherapy used among patients with depression
Time value of emission and technology discounting rate for off-grid electricity generation in India using intermediate pyrolysis
Has Chiranjeevi Yojana changed the geographic availability of free comprehensive emergency obstetric care services in Gujarat, India
BACKGROUND: The high rate of maternal mortality in India is of grave concern. Poor rural Indian women are most vulnerable to preventable maternal deaths primarily because they have limited availability of affordable emergency obstetric care (EmOC) within reasonable geographic proximity. Scarcity of obstetricians in the public sector combined with financial barriers to accessing private sector obstetrician services preclude this underserved popula…
Measuring slum severity in Mumbai and Kolkata
Slumulation
Slums provide shelter for nearly one third of the world's urban population, most of them in the developing world. Slumulation represents an agent-based model which explores questions such as i) how slums come into existence, expand or disappear ii) where and when they emerge in a city and iii) which processes may improve housing conditions for urban poor. The model has three types of agents that influence emergence or sustenance of slums in a cit…
Amphibian Pathogen Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis Is Inhibited by the Cutaneous Bacteria of Amphibian Species
Measuring slum severity in Mumbai and Kolkata
Measuring multiple housing deprivations in urban India using Slum Severity Index
Around one billion people who live in slums globally have low quality housing and poor living conditions (UN, 2020). However, such global estimates do not provide a full description of different types of deprivations experienced by the urban poor, often resulting in inaccurate estimates of the extent of housing challenge. An all-encompassing, single analytical category of “slums” limits its usefulness for planning and policymaking purposes. Slum …
Measuring deprivations in the slums of Bangladesh
Approximately 880 million people, or one in four urban residents, live in slums today. While this enumeration is useful, it is not a trivial exercise to estimate slum population for a city, let alone globally, especially when the definition of a slum remains a debatable construct. To demonstrate this point empirically, we utilize a household survey from nine cities in Bangladesh and provide three different estimates of slum population based on th…
Broadening the lens
Migration and health
Gendered Impacts of Environmental Degradation in Informal Settlements
Degraded urban environments disproportionately affect marginalized populations, and especially impoverished women in South Asia’s informal settlements, where climate change vulnerabilities and gender inequalities are extreme. A comparative analysis was conducted of three neighboring countries, India, Bangladesh, and Pakistan, where urban environments, climate risks, and gender relations exhibit significant variances. With original survey data fro…
Amphibian Pathogen Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis Is Inhibited by the Cutaneous Bacteria of Amphibian Species
Slumulation
Slums provide shelter for nearly one third of the world's urban population, most of them in the developing world. Slumulation represents an agent-based model which explores questions such as i) how slums come into existence, expand or disappear ii) where and when they emerge in a city and iii) which processes may improve housing conditions for urban poor. The model has three types of agents that influence emergence or sustenance of slums in a cit…
Measuring slum severity in Mumbai and Kolkata
Has Chiranjeevi Yojana changed the geographic availability of free comprehensive emergency obstetric care services in Gujarat, India
BACKGROUND: The high rate of maternal mortality in India is of grave concern. Poor rural Indian women are most vulnerable to preventable maternal deaths primarily because they have limited availability of affordable emergency obstetric care (EmOC) within reasonable geographic proximity. Scarcity of obstetricians in the public sector combined with financial barriers to accessing private sector obstetrician services preclude this underserved popula…
Assessment of health-related quality of life, mental health status and psychological distress based on the type of pharmacotherapy used among patients with depression
Time value of emission and technology discounting rate for off-grid electricity generation in India using intermediate pyrolysis
Measuring Deprivations in the Slums of Bangladesh
Approximately 880 million people, or one in four urban residents, live in slums today. While this enumeration is useful, it is not a trivial exercise to estimate slum population for a city, let alone globally, especially when the definition of a slum remains a debatable construct. To demonstrate this point empirically, we utilize a household survey from nine cities in Bangladesh and provide three different estimates of slum population based on th…
Measuring deprivations in the slums of Bangladesh
Approximately 880 million people, or one in four urban residents, live in slums today. While this enumeration is useful, it is not a trivial exercise to estimate slum population for a city, let alone globally, especially when the definition of a slum remains a debatable construct. To demonstrate this point empirically, we utilize a household survey from nine cities in Bangladesh and provide three different estimates of slum population based on th…
Gendered Impacts of Environmental Degradation in Informal Settlements
Degraded urban environments disproportionately affect marginalized populations, and especially impoverished women in South Asia’s informal settlements, where climate change vulnerabilities and gender inequalities are extreme. A comparative analysis was conducted of three neighboring countries, India, Bangladesh, and Pakistan, where urban environments, climate risks, and gender relations exhibit significant variances. With original survey data fro…
Measuring multiple housing deprivations in urban India using Slum Severity Index
Around one billion people who live in slums globally have low quality housing and poor living conditions (UN, 2020). However, such global estimates do not provide a full description of different types of deprivations experienced by the urban poor, often resulting in inaccurate estimates of the extent of housing challenge. An all-encompassing, single analytical category of “slums” limits its usefulness for planning and policymaking purposes. Slum …
Unlocking the potential plant growth‐promoting properties of chickpea ( Cicer arietinum L.) seed endophytes bio‐inoculants for improving soil health and crop production
Sustainable agronomic practices are tried all over the world to promote safe and eco‐friendly crop production. Therefore, in the present study, the effect of seed endophytic bacteria and its consortium on soil biochemical property and yield of chickpea ( Cicer arietinum L.) under field and pot conditions are investigated. Both the experimental results proved a significant increase in total soil organic carbon (OC), electric conductivity (EC), org…
Identifying kidney trade networks using web scraping data
Kidney trade has been on the rise despite the domestic and international law enforcement aiming to protect the vulnerable population from potential exploitation. Regional hubs are emerging in several parts of the world including South Asia, Central America, the Middle East and East Asia. Kidney trade networks reported in these hot spots are often complex systems involving several players such as buyers, sellers and surgery countries operating acr…
Accelerating Progress towards Universal Water Sanitation and Hygiene (Wash)
Access to safe water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) continues to be a universal challenge that affects human health and well-being. The latest global reports from the Joint Monitoring Programme (JMP) for Water Supply, Sanitation and Hygiene led by the World Health Organization (WHO) and the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) have highlighted the global scale of WASH issues, particularly in the least developed countries (LDCs). In 2020, it wa…
Predicting housing deprivation from space in the slums of Dhaka
Cities in developing countries have been struggling to deal with the pressures of urbanization on infrastructure, basic services, land, and housing that often manifest as poor living conditions found in slums and informal settlements. One of the key challenges to effectively target policy interventions and meet Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) for improving lives of people living in slums is the lack of data on their housing condition. Furthe…
Slum-dwellers as experts
Post Covid sequelae among Covid-19 survivors
INTRODUCTION: The effects of COVID-19 infection persist beyond the active phase. Comprehensive description and analysis of the post COVID sequelae in various population groups are critical to minimise the long-term morbidity and mortality associated with COVID-19. This analysis was conducted with an objective to estimate the frequency of post COVID sequelae and subsequently, design a framework for holistic management of post COVID morbidities. ME…
How applicable are scaling laws in predicting slum populations in urban systems? Evidence from India
Recently, we have seen new developments in our understanding of the emergence and organization of cities and urban systems, including application of scaling laws to urban areas. A recent wave of studies has observed consistent behavior of multiple urban measures that scale with city size across geographic and sectoral contexts. However, the extant evidence is lacking in two important ways: first, a wide variety of urban measures still remain unex…
Migration and health
Agent-Based Modeling of Covid-19 Transmission
The differential transmission of COVID-19 depending on the socio-economic status of a neighborhood is well established. For example, several studies have shown that COVID-19 transmission was higher in poorer and denser neighborhoods than in wealthier ones. However, what is less well known is how this varied rate of transmission interacted with established health measures, i.e., face masks and lockdowns, in the context of developing countries to r…
Broadening the lens
Economics (11 works) · Geography (11 works) · Population (11 works) · Economic growth (10 works) · Urban and Rural Development Challenges (9 works) · Medicine (8 works) · Sociology (8 works) · Slum (7 works) · Business (6 works) · Computer Science (6 works)