Dr Devi Sridhar (B.S., M.Phil, D.Phil)

Post: University Lecturer in Global Health Politics

Introduction

Dr. Devi Sridhar is University Lecturer in Global Health Politics and Fellow at Wolfson College. She is a Co-Director of the Centre for AIDS Interdisciplinary Research (CAIRO) and faculty in the Blavatnik School of Government. She has worked with a number of UN agencies, civil society organisations and Ministries of Health in emerging and developing countries. She holds a DPhil (December 2006) and MPhil from Oxford and a B.S. from the University of Miami.

Research Areas and Interests

• Global Health Politics and Governance
• Institutions in Global Health
• Global/National Financing of Health

Previous Posts Held

2008-2010 Visiting Associate Professor, Munich Center on Governance, LMU-Munich

2007-2011 Postdoctoral Research Fellow, All Souls College, Oxford

2006-2007 Postdoctoral Researcher at Global Economic Governance Programme, Oxford

 

Teaching Responsibilities

• Lectures and Supervision in Global Health
• Department of Public Health M.Sc Global Health Sciences
• Blavatnik School of Government Masters in Public Policy (on core module on Science and Public Policy and on Global Health option)

Professional Activities

Member of World Economic Forum Global Agenda Council on the Health Industry

Associate Fellow at Chatham House Centre on Global Health Security

Advisory Board Member of Financial Flows Programme at Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation

Visiting Faculty at the Public Health Foundation of India/Indian Institute of Public Health

Publications

Selected Publications

Books

'The Battle Against Hunger: Choice, Circumstance and the World Bank' (Oxford: OUP 2008, foreword by Amartya Sen), Lancet review, Foreign Affairs review

'Inside Organisations: South Asian Case Studies' (edited, New Delhi: Sage 2008), Aus & New Zeal J. of Public Health review

Papers/Book Chapters/Reports

Health Policy: Regulate alcohol for global health, Nature, vol.482, no.302, 2012.

 Motives behind National and Regional Approaches to Health and Foreign Policy (with Kate Smolina), GEG Working Paper 68, 2012.

Analysing Global Health Assistance: The Reach for Ethnographic, Institutional and Political Economic Scope (with David Craig), Social Science & Medicine, introduction to co-edited SI on Global Health Assistance, vol.72, no.12, 2011.

Expectations for the UN High-Level Meeting on Noncommunicable Diseases (with Steve Morrison & Peter Piot), Bulletin of the World Health Organization,vol.89, 2011.

The Joint Action and Learning Initiative: Towards a Global Agreement on National and Global Responsibilities for Health (with Larry Gostin et al.), PLOS Med, vol.8, no.5, 2011.

Reforming the World Health Organization (with Larry Gostin), JAMA, vol.305, no.15, 2011.

Trojan Multilateralism: Global Cooperation on Health (with Ngaire Woods), working paper, 2011.

How to do (or not to do): tracking data on development assistance for health (with Karen Grepin et al.), Health Policy & Planning, 2011

Health Financing in Brazil, Russia and India: What Role Does the International Community Play?, (with Eduardo Gomez), Health Policy & Planning, vol.26, no.1, 2011.

Getting the Politics Right for the UN High-Level Meeting on Non-Communicable Diseases (with Steve Morrison & Peter Piot), CSIS Report, 2011.

Improving aid for maternal, newborn and child health, Lancet, vol.376, no.9751, 2010.

Are there simple conclusions on how to channel health funding? (with Ngaire Woods), Lancet, vol. 375, no.9723, 2010.

Seven Failings in International Development Assistance for Health, Journal of Law, Medicine and Ethics, vol.38, no.3, 2010.

Developing a Sustainable Global Response to HIV/AIDS, World Politics Review, December 2010.

Why no one talks about Non-Communicable Diseases, UN Chronicle, special issue on Global Health, July 2010.

Health inequalities, World Policy, special issue on Global Health, vol. 27, no.2, 2010.

How much do we care about health (with Larry Gostin), Chatham House World Today, August/September 2010.

Vertical Funds in Health: Lessons for Education from the Global Fund and GAVI (with Tami Tamashiro), background paper for UNESCO Global Monitoring Report 2010.

Addressing Hunger: Do Rational Models Work? In C. Hood, H. Margetts & Perri 6 (eds.), Paradoxes of Modernization: Unintended Consequences of Public Policy Reforms, OUP, 2010.

Global Health: WHO can lead?, Chatham House World Today, vol. 65, no.2, February 2009.

Bridging the Divide: Global Governance of Trade and Health (with Kelley Lee & Mayur Patel), Lancet, series on trade and health, vol. 373, no. 9661, 2009

Road Traffic Injuries: the hidden development crisis (with Kevin Watkins), policy briefing for the First Global Ministerial Conference on Road Safety in Moscow, for the Fia Foundation for the Automobile and Society 2009.

Do we need a UN Agency for HIV/AIDS? (with Ngaire Woods). United Nations Association UK New World, Autumn 2009.

Post-Accra: Is there space for country ownership in global health?, Third World Quarterly, vol.30, no.7, 2009.

Global Health Funding- How much, where it comes from, and where it goes (with Dave McCoy & Sudeep Chand), Health Policy & Planning, vol. 24, no.6, 2009.

Workshop Report on Global Health and International Relations, October 2009.

Innovations in Global Health in a New Political Era, co-editor (with Larry Gostin) of special issue of Global Health Governance, vol.2, no.2, 2009.

Are Existing Governance Structures Equipped to Deal with Today's Global Health Challenges? Towards Systematic Coherence in Scaling-Up(with Sanjeev Khagram & Tikki Pang), special issue of Global Health Governance, vol.2, no.2, 2009.

Linkages between Child Malnutrition and Education, background paper for UNESCO Global Monitoring Report, 2009.

Governance and Resourcing of Public Health: Recognizing the Role of Multiple Stakeholders, background paper for Public Health Foundation of India, 2008.

Setting a Developing Country Agenda for Health: Preliminary Report of High-Level Working Group(with GEG), 2008.

Background Report for UNAIDS Transition Working Group (with Danielle Kucyznski & Kristie Latulippe). Center for Global Development/GEG, 2008.

MisFinancing Global Health: The Case for Transparency in Disbursements and Decision-Making (with Rajaie Batniji), Lancet,vol.372, no.9644, 2008.

Improving Access to Essential Medicines: How Health Concerns Can Be Prioritised in the Global Governance System. Public Health Ethics, special issue edited by Thomas Pogge, vol.1, no.2, 2008.

Hungry for Change: The World Bank in India. South Asia Research, vol.28, no.2, 2008.

The Role of Structure and Agency in Hunger Reduction in India. Indian Journal of Gender Studies, vol.15, no.1, 2008.

Revisiting Equity in Public Health: Book Review of Public Health, Ethics and Equity (eds.) S. Anand, F. Peter, A. Sen. Journal of Human Development, vol.9, no.2, 2008.

Economic Ideology and Politics in the World Bank: Defining Hunger. New Political Economy, vol.12, no.4, 2007.

Mainstreaming Nutrition as Social Welfare. United Nations Chronicle, June, 2007.

Barriers to improving mental health services in low and middle income countries (with B. Saraceno et al.) Lancet, vol.6736, no.7, 2007.

Disability and Development (with Barbara Harriss-White) In D. Clark (ed.), The Elgar Companion to Development. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, 2006.

A Review of the Impact of Conditional Cash Transfers on Child Nutritional Status (with Arabella Duffield). London: Save the Children UK, 2006.

Inequality in the US Healthcare System. UNDP Human Development Report Occasional Paper, no.37, 2005.

Ethics and Development. Anthropology Today, vol. 21, no. 6, 2005.