Sunetra Gupta
British novelist and epidemiologist / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Sunetra Gupta (born 15 March 1965[2]) is an Indian-born British infectious disease epidemiologist and a professor of theoretical epidemiology at the Department of Zoology, University of Oxford. She has performed research on the transmission dynamics of various infectious diseases, including malaria, influenza and COVID-19, and has received the Scientific Medal of the Zoological Society of London and the Rosalind Franklin Award of the Royal Society. She is a member of the scientific advisory board of Collateral Global, an organisation which examines the global impact of COVID-19 restrictions.[3]
Sunetra Gupta | |
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Born | (1965-03-15) 15 March 1965 (age 59) Calcutta, West Bengal, India |
Citizenship | British |
Alma mater | Princeton University (BA) Imperial College London (PhD) |
Spouse | |
Children | 2 |
Awards | Scientific Medal of ZSL Rosalind Franklin Award Sahitya Akademi Award |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Epidemiology, evolutionary biology |
Institutions | University of Oxford |
Thesis | Heterogeneity and the transmission dynamics of infectious diseases (1992) |
Gupta is also a novelist and a recipient of the Sahitya Akademi Award.