Sunetra Gupta

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Sunetra Gupta (born March 15, 1965 in Calcutta , West Bengal , India ) is a professor of epidemiology and a writer .

Life

Gupta moved with the family as a child through various countries in Africa and Europe before returning to Calcutta. Her father was a friend of the poetry and songs of Rabindranath Tagore . He often interpreted them in the family circle and Sunetra was artistically influenced by this poetry. She translated some of Tagore's songs and poems from Bengali into English .

Gupta studied biology and graduated from Princeton University in 1987 with a Bachelor of Arts. She received her PhD from the University of London in 1992 . She is now (2012) Professor of Theoretical Epidemiology at the Faculty of Zoology at Oxford University and is a member of the Advisory Board of Princeton University Press for Europe.

Gupta's particular scientific interest is the transmission of diseases to humans in malaria , AIDS , influenza, and bacterial meningitis .

honors and awards

Publications

Sunetra Gupta speaks on The Life Scientific program on BBC Radio 4 (2012)
  • 1992: PhD thesis: Heterogeneity and the Transmission Dynamics of Infectious Diseases .
  • 1992: in English: Memories of Rain . Penguin Books, New Delhi, ISBN 1-85799-013-7 . Original language: Bengali.
  • 1993: in English: The Glassblower's Breath . Grove Press, New York City, USA, ISBN 0-802114962 . Original language: Bengali.
  • 1995: Moonlight into Marzipan . Premia, London.
  • 1999: A Sin of Color . Phoenix House, London, ISBN 1-86159-066-0 .
  • 2011: So Good in Black . Clockwood Books, Northampton, England, ISBN 978-1-566-56853-1 .

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SURNAME Gupta, Sunetra
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Indian epidemiologist, university professor and author
DATE OF BIRTH March 15, 1965
PLACE OF BIRTH Calcutta , West Bengal , India