Devi Sridhar

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{{short description|Global public health researcher}}
{{Infobox scientist
| birth_name = Devi Lalita Sridhar
| name = Devi Sridhar
| birth_date = {{birth year and age|1984}}
| alma_mater = [[University of Miami]] <br> [[University of Oxford]] (DPhil)
| awards = [[Rhodes Scholarship]]
| workplaces = [[University of Oxford]] <br> [[University of Edinburgh]]
| fields = [[Public health]]<ref name=gs/>
| thesis_title = The art of the Bank : nutrition policy and practice in India
| thesis_url = https://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.439319
| thesis_year = 2006
| website = {{URL|https://www.ed.ac.uk/profile/devi-sridhar}}
}}

'''Devi Lalita Sridhar''' (born 1984) is a Professor and Chair of Global [[Public health|Public Health]] at the [[University of Edinburgh]]. Her research considers the effectiveness of public health interventions and how to improve developmental assistance for health.<ref name=gs>{{Google scholar id}}</ref><ref name=epmc>{{EuropePMC|ORCID=0000-0002-5058-9023}}</ref><ref name="TichenorSridhar2019">{{cite journal|last1=Tichenor|first1=Marlee|last2=Sridhar|first2=Devi|title=Metric partnerships: global burden of disease estimates within the World Bank, the World Health Organisation and the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation|journal=Wellcome Open Research|volume=4|year=2019|pages=35|issn=2398-502X|doi=10.12688/wellcomeopenres.15011.1|pmid=30863794 |pmc=6406176 }}</ref>

== Early life and education ==
Sridhar was born and raised in Miami, Florida in an [[India]]n 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.<ref name="Rhodes">{{Cite web |url=https://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/fl-xpm-2002-12-10-0212090467-story.html |title=Student named youngest Rhodes Scholar |last=Diaz |first=Madeline |work=South Florida Sun-Sentinel |quote=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. |date=2002-12-10 |accessdate=2020-07-21}}</ref> 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.<ref name="Rhodes"/><ref name=miami>{{Cite journal |author=Anon|date=2017 |title=Devi Sridhar: Governing global health|journal=BMJ |volume=356|pages=j1490 |doi=10.1136/bmj.j1490|issn=0959-8138 |pmid=28356303 }}</ref> She says she was inspired by her grandmother, who raised her children in the 1960s before completing her DPhil<ref name=dphil>{{cite thesis|degree=DPhil|publisher=University of Oxford|url=http://solo.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/primo-explore/fulldisplay?docid=oxfaleph016539527&context=L&vid=SOLO&search_scope=LSCOP_ALL&tab=local&lang=en_US|title=The art of the bank : nutrition policy and practice in India|first= Devi|last=Sridhar|date=2006|id={{EThOS|uk.bl.ethos.439319}}|website=ox.ac.uk|oclc=165059652|hdl=}}</ref> and writing several books.<ref name=miami/> Sridhar used her [[Rhodes Scholarship]] for graduate study at the [[University of Oxford]]. Her dissertation considered [[malnutrition]] in India.<ref name=dphil/><ref name=":1">{{Cite web |url=http://med.miami.edu/news/alumni-spotlight|title=Alumni Spotlight |publisher=Miller School of Medicine, University of Miami |access-date=2019-07-28}}</ref> She turned down a funded position at [[Harvard Law School]]<ref name=miami /> to join the [[University of Oxford]] Global Economic Governance Programme in 2006, where she was awarded both MPhil and DPhil degrees.<ref name=":1" />

==Career and research==
From 2008 Sridhar was a [[postdoctoral]] [[fellow]] at [[All Souls College, Oxford]].<ref name=":2">{{Cite web|url=https://www.geg.ox.ac.uk/person/dr-devi-sridhar-senior-research-associate|title=Dr Devi Sridhar, Senior Research Associate {{!}} GEG|website=geg.ox.ac.uk|access-date=2019-07-28}}</ref> Her first book, ''The Battle Against Hunger'', was selected by ''[[Foreign Affairs]]'' as a must read book in aid policy.<ref name=":3">{{Cite web|url=https://www.politics.ox.ac.uk/associates/devi-sridhar.html|title=Devi Sridhar|website=politics.ox.ac.uk|language=en-gb|access-date=2019-07-28}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/2010-02-02/what-read-foreign-aid|title=What to Read on Foreign Aid|last=Gershman|first=John|date=2012-03-21|access-date=2019-07-28|language=en-US|issn=0015-7120}}</ref><ref name=":4">{{Cite web|url=https://www.geg.ox.ac.uk/news/devi-sridhars-new-book-foreign-affairs-must-read|title=Devi Sridhar's New Book: A Foreign Affairs Must-Read {{!}} GEG|website=geg.ox.ac.uk|access-date=2019-07-28}}</ref> 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.<ref name=":4" /> Sridhar was concerned that the programme did not address the social conditions that cause undernutrition in India.<ref name=":4" />

In 2011 Sridhar was appointed to [[Wolfson College, Oxford]], as an Associate Professor in [[global health]] politics.<ref name=":5">{{Cite web|url=https://www.ed.ac.uk/profile/devi-sridhar|title=Devi Sridhar|website=ed.ac.uk|publisher=University of Edinburgh|language=en|access-date=2019-07-28}}</ref><ref name=":3" /> She serves on the [[World Economic Forum]] Global Agenda Council on the Health Industry. She started to research the rise of [[Public–private partnership|public–private partnerships]] in global health governance, and how, whilst they are crucial to combat [[Infectious Disease|infectious disease]], their non-transparent accountability and effectiveness should be investigated.<ref name=":6">{{Cite web|url=https://www.bsg.ox.ac.uk/multimedia/video/governing-global-health-chelsea-clinton-and-devi-sridhar|title=Governing Global Health with Chelsea Clinton and Devi Sridhar|website=bsg.ox.ac.uk|language=en|access-date=2019-07-28}}</ref> 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]].<ref name=":6" /> She worked with [[Julio Frenk]] on the need for an independent and impartial [[World Health Organization]].<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Sridhar|first=D.|last2=Frenk|first2=J.|last3=Gostin|first3=L.|last4=Moon|first4=S.|date=2014|title=Global rules for global health: why we need an independent, impartial WHO|journal=BMJ|volume=348|issue=jun18 17|pages=g3841|doi=10.1136/bmj.g3841|issn=1756-1833|pmid= 24942299|url=https://dash.harvard.edu/bitstream/1/37260724/1/Global_Rules_for_Global_Health_Why_We_Need_An_Independent_Impartial_WHO.pdf}} {{closed access}}</ref>

Sridhar investigated the international response to the [[West African Ebola virus epidemic timeline|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.<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Piot|first=Peter|last2=Woskie|first2=Liana R.|last3=Hawkins|first3=Benjamin|last4=Leigh|first4=Jennifer A.|last5=Tanner|first5=Marcel|last6=Saavedra|first6=Jorge|last7=Morrison|first7=J. Stephen|last8=Leung|first8=Gabriel M.|last9=Lee|first9=Kelley|date=2015|title=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|journal=The Lancet|language=English|volume=386|issue=10009|pages=2204–2221|doi=10.1016/S0140-6736(15)00946-0|pmid=26615326|issn=0140-6736|doi-access=free}}</ref> 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.<ref name=":5" /><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://globalhealthgovernance.org/team-1|title=Team member overview old|website=globalhealthgovernance.org|publisher=Global Health Governance Programme|language=en-US|access-date=2019-07-28}}</ref> She works between [[Edinburgh Medical School]] and the [[Blavatnik School of Government]].<ref name=":2" /> Sridhar compiled the first [[Wellcome Trust]] Open Research Collection on the topic of Global Public Health.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://wellcomeopenresearch.org/collections/worldbank/about-this-collection|title=About this collection - Wellcome Open Research|website=wellcomeopenresearch.org|access-date=2019-07-28}}</ref> She is concerned by the rise of [[chronic disease]], drug-resistant infection and funding for [[primary healthcare]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.euro.who.int/en/media-centre/events/events/2018/06/health-systems-for-prosperity-and-solidarity-leaving-no-one-behind/commentaries/professor-devi-sridhar,-university-of-edinburgh,-scotland,-united-kingdom|title=Professor Devi Sridhar, University of Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom|date=2018-05-24|website=euro.who.int|language=en|access-date=2019-07-28}}</ref>

She regularly contributes to the [[BBC World Service]], [[CNN]], [[Channel 4 News]], and [[BBC Radio 4]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.hayfestival.com/artist.aspx?artistid=9032|title=Hay Festival|website=hayfestival.com|access-date=2019-07-28}}</ref> 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 in Scotland|COVID-19 pandemic]].<ref>{{Cite news|last=Newey|first=Sarah|date=2020-05-18|title=Devi Sridhar: Wealth is the best shielding strategy for this virus - and from severe symptoms|language=en-GB|work=The Telegraph|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/global-health/science-and-disease/devi-sridhar-scotlands-strategy-contain-covid-19-unclear-westminster/|access-date=2020-07-05|issn=0307-1235}}</ref>

=== Selected publications ===
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Her publications include:

* {{Cite book |title=The battle against hunger |last=Sridhar |first=Devi |author-mask=0 |publisher=Oxford University Press |year=2008 |isbn=978-0199549962 |location=}}
* {{Cite book |title=Anthropologists Inside Organisations |last=Sridhar |first=Devi |author-mask=0 |publisher=Sage Publishing |year=2008 |isbn=8178298864 |location= }}
* {{Cite book |title=Healthy Ideas: Improving Global Health and Development in the 21st Century |author-mask=0 |last=Sridhar |first=Devi |publisher=JoGH |year=2014 |isbn=0993363814 |location= }}
* {{Cite book |title=Governing Global Health: Who Runs the World and Why? |last=Sridhar |first=Devi |author-mask=0 |publisher=Oxford University Press |year=2017 |isbn=978-0190253271 |location= }}

Sridhar serves on the [[editorial board]] of the journal ''[[Public Health (journal)|Public Health]]''.

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