Devi Sridhar

Devi Lalita Sridhar (born 1984) is a Professor and Chair of Global Public Health at the University of Edinburgh. Her research considers the effectiveness of public health interventions and how to improve developmental assistance for health.[1][2][3]

Devi Sridhar
Born
Devi Lalita Sridhar

1984 (age 35–36)
Alma materUniversity of Miami
University of Oxford (DPhil)
AwardsRhodes Scholarship
Scientific career
FieldsPublic health[1]
InstitutionsUniversity of Oxford
University of Edinburgh
ThesisThe art of the Bank : nutrition policy and practice in India (2006)
Websitewww.ed.ac.uk/profile/devi-sridhar

Early life and education

Sridhar was born and raised in Miami, Florida in an Indian family. After graduating from Ransom Everglades School at the age of sixteen, she enrolled in a six-year program at the University of Miami that awards a bachelor's degree in two years, after which students are in the school of medicine.[4] Having received her bachelor's degree in biology at the age of eighteen, Sridhar became the youngest person in the US to be awarded a Rhodes Scholarship.[4][5] She says she was inspired by her grandmother, who raised her children in the 1960s before completing her DPhil[6] and writing several books.[5] Sridhar used her Rhodes Scholarship for graduate study at the University of Oxford. Her dissertation considered malnutrition in India.[6][7] She turned down a funded position at Harvard Law School[5] to join the University of Oxford Global Economic Governance Programme in 2006, where she was awarded both MPhil and DPhil degrees.[7]

Career and research

From 2008 Sridhar was a postdoctoral fellow at All Souls College, Oxford.[8] Her first book, The Battle Against Hunger, was selected by Foreign Affairs as a must read book in aid policy.[9][10][11] The book investigated the World Bank funded nutrition programme based in India, which became a blueprint for aid programmes despite lack of evidence for its effectiveness.[11] Sridhar was concerned that the programme did not address the social conditions that cause undernutrition in India.[11]

In 2011 Sridhar was appointed to Wolfson College, Oxford, as an Associate Professor in global health politics.[12][9] She serves on the World Economic Forum Global Agenda Council on the Health Industry. She started to research the rise of public–private partnerships in global health governance, and how, whilst they are crucial to combat infectious disease, their non-transparent accountability and effectiveness should be investigated.[13] International organisations are redirected by specific incentives, and the asymmetry of information sharing between member states and groups like the World Health Organization or World Bank limits their impact. She worked with Chelsea Clinton and used principal agent theory to study the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria and the GAVI Alliance.[13] She worked with Julio Frenk on the need for an independent and impartial World Health Organization.[14]

Sridhar investigated the international response to the West African Ebola virus epidemic, and what reforms were needed to heal a global system for outbreak response. She partnered with the Harvard Global Health Institute and London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine to independently analyse the global response. She established ten essential reforms to prevent and respond to the next pandemic.[15] In 2014, at the age of thirty, Sridhar was promoted to full Professor and Chair at the University of Edinburgh and became the founding Director of the Global Health Governance Programme.[12][16] She works between Edinburgh Medical School and the Blavatnik School of Government.[8] Sridhar compiled the first Wellcome Trust Open Research Collection on the topic of Global Public Health.[17] She is concerned by the rise of chronic disease, drug-resistant infection and funding for primary healthcare.[18]

She regularly contributes to the BBC World Service, CNN, Channel 4 News, and BBC Radio 4.[19] She is a member of Iyiola Solanke's Black Professors Forum.

In 2020, Sridhar advised the Scottish government on how to deal with the COVID-19 pandemic.[20]

Selected publications

Her publications include:

  • The battle against hunger. Oxford University Press. 2008. ISBN 978-0199549962.
  • Anthropologists Inside Organisations. Sage Publishing. 2008. ISBN 8178298864.
  • Healthy Ideas: Improving Global Health and Development in the 21st Century. JoGH. 2014. ISBN 0993363814.
  • Governing Global Health: Who Runs the World and Why?. Oxford University Press. 2017. ISBN 978-0190253271.

Sridhar serves on the editorial board of the journal Public Health.

References
  1. Devi Sridhar publications indexed by Google Scholar
  2. Devi Sridhar publications from Europe PubMed Central
  3. Tichenor, Marlee; Sridhar, Devi (2019). "Metric partnerships: global burden of disease estimates within the World Bank, the World Health Organisation and the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation". Wellcome Open Research. 4: 35. doi:10.12688/wellcomeopenres.15011.1. ISSN 2398-502X. PMC 6406176. PMID 30863794.
  4. Diaz, Madeline (2002-12-10). "Student named youngest Rhodes Scholar". South Florida Sun-Sentinel. Retrieved 2020-07-21. Devi Sridhar, a biology major at the University of Miami, has been named a Rhodes Scholar -- the youngest person ever to receive the honor in the United States...Since U.S. Rhodes Scholars have to complete a bachelor's degree before beginning their studies at Oxford, many are in their 20s. Sridhar, however, graduated from Ransom Everglades High School at 16 and is finishing her second year at the University of Miami, which is her senior year because she is enrolled in a six-year program that fast-tracks students to UM's School of Medicine.
  5. Anon (2017). "Devi Sridhar: Governing global health". BMJ. 356: j1490. doi:10.1136/bmj.j1490. ISSN 0959-8138. PMID 28356303.
  6. Sridhar, Devi (2006). The art of the bank : nutrition policy and practice in India. ox.ac.uk (DPhil thesis). University of Oxford. OCLC 165059652. EThOS uk.bl.ethos.439319.
  7. "Alumni Spotlight". Miller School of Medicine, University of Miami. Retrieved 2019-07-28.
  8. "Dr Devi Sridhar, Senior Research Associate | GEG". geg.ox.ac.uk. Retrieved 2019-07-28.
  9. "Devi Sridhar". politics.ox.ac.uk. Retrieved 2019-07-28.
  10. Gershman, John (2012-03-21). "What to Read on Foreign Aid". ISSN 0015-7120. Retrieved 2019-07-28.
  11. "Devi Sridhar's New Book: A Foreign Affairs Must-Read | GEG". geg.ox.ac.uk. Retrieved 2019-07-28.
  12. "Devi Sridhar". ed.ac.uk. University of Edinburgh. Retrieved 2019-07-28.
  13. "Governing Global Health with Chelsea Clinton and Devi Sridhar". bsg.ox.ac.uk. Retrieved 2019-07-28.
  14. Sridhar, D.; Frenk, J.; Gostin, L.; Moon, S. (2014). "Global rules for global health: why we need an independent, impartial WHO" (PDF). BMJ. 348 (jun18 17): g3841. doi:10.1136/bmj.g3841. ISSN 1756-1833. PMID 24942299.
  15. Piot, Peter; Woskie, Liana R.; Hawkins, Benjamin; Leigh, Jennifer A.; Tanner, Marcel; Saavedra, Jorge; Morrison, J. Stephen; Leung, Gabriel M.; Lee, Kelley (2015). "Will Ebola change the game? Ten essential reforms before the next pandemic. The report of the Harvard-LSHTM Independent Panel on the Global Response to Ebola". The Lancet. 386 (10009): 2204–2221. doi:10.1016/S0140-6736(15)00946-0. ISSN 0140-6736. PMID 26615326.
  16. "Team member overview old". globalhealthgovernance.org. Global Health Governance Programme. Retrieved 2019-07-28.
  17. "About this collection - Wellcome Open Research". wellcomeopenresearch.org. Retrieved 2019-07-28.
  18. "Professor Devi Sridhar, University of Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom". euro.who.int. 2018-05-24. Retrieved 2019-07-28.
  19. "Hay Festival". hayfestival.com. Retrieved 2019-07-28.
  20. Newey, Sarah (2020-05-18). "Devi Sridhar: Wealth is the best shielding strategy for this virus - and from severe symptoms". The Telegraph. ISSN 0307-1235. Retrieved 2020-07-05.
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