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Vijayan K Pillai, Ph.D., is professor at the University of Texas at Arlington, USA. He started his teaching career as a faculty member of the Dept. of Social Development at the University of Zambia, Lusaka. Prior to joining the University of Texas at Arlington, he was a faculty member in the Dept. of Sociology and Social Work at the University of North Texas, Denton. He obtained his Ph.D. in sociology from the University of Iowa, Iowa City, MSW from Indore School of Social Work, Indore, and Post Graduate Diploma in Urban Planning from the School of Planning, CEPT University, and Ahmadabad, India. He is a demographer with research interests in adolescent fertility, women’s health and welfare issues, HIV/AIDS in Africa, women’s reproductive health in developing countries, and gender issues. He has written extensively on topics such as the determinants of adolescent fertility in Zambia, welfare and teenage norms in the Unites States, and the relationship between women’s rights and reproductive health at a cross national level in developing countries. He is currently engaged in investigating the impact of stigma on psychosocial health of children living with parents with HIV in Botswana. Professor Pillai has served the DFW community through several organizations. In 2000 he accepted the position of secretary of South Asia Research and Information Institute (Sarii) in Dallas, Tx. He has been a board member of Texas Refugee and Immigrant Women Association since 2003. He has worked with the Buckner Foundation through the Africa Program at the University of Texas at Arlington in establishing a orphanage in Seirra Leone. He is a Fellow of the ROYAL SOCIETY FOR PUBLIC HEALTH (U.K). He is also a recipient of the Hind Rattan Award which recognizes the contributions (service, research, etc..) of people of Indian origin all over the world. He was the recipient of the University wide Mentorship Award in 2014. In 2016, he was awarded Distinguished Senior Scholar Presidential Award by International Consortium for Social Development (Asia-Pacific). He was made a Fellow of the American College of Epidemiology in June of 2020