Dr Sujatha Rao is a former Union Secretary of the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, Government of India. During her 36 years of service as a civil servant, she spent 20 years in the health sector at the state and federal levels.
Dr Rao has represented India on the Boards of the Global Fund for HIV/AIDS, TB, and Malaria (GFATM); WHO and UNAIDS; Member of the six-member Global Advisory Panel of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation; Founding member of the Public Health Foundation of India; Member of the Advisory Board of the Ministerial Leadership Program of the Harvard School of Public Health; Member of the High-Level Panel on the Global Risk Framework of the National Academy of Sciences, USA; Trustee of Population Council, USA. She also served on the boards of BSNL and AIIMS Raipur.
She is also a Board Member of PRITHVI Asset Reconstruction Company and a member on boards of NGOs. Among her other commitments, she is the Commissioner of the Lancet Citizens’ Commission on Reimagining India’s Health System.
An MA graduate from Delhi University and an MPA graduate from Harvard University, USA, from 1991-92, she was a Takemi Fellow at the Harvard School of Public Health from 2001-2002 and a Gro Harlem Brundtland Senior Leadership Fellow at HSPH in 2012.
She is the author of the book titled “Do We Care? India’s Health System,” published by Oxford University Press in 2017, and has authored several articles in the media.
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