Director Ramalingaswami Centre on Equity & Social determinants of Health, Public Health Foundation of India

Dr. Gita Sen has worked for 35 years nationally and internationally on population policies, reproductive and sexual health, gender equality and women’s human rights, as well as issues of poverty, human development and labour markets. Her work has helped to shape the global paradigm shift on population and development.

A citizen of India, Sen holds a PhD in economics from Stanford University. She is Distinguished Professor & Director, Ramalingaswami Centre on  Equity & Social Determinants of Health, Public Health Foundation of India, and adjunct professor of global health and population at Harvard University. She is also the General Coordinator of DAWN (Development Alternatives with Women for a New Era).

Her numerous book publications include Gender Equity in Health: the Shifting Frontiers of Evidence and Action (Routledge, 2010), Women’s Empowerment and Demographic Processes – Moving Beyond Cairo (Oxford University Press/IUSSP, 2000), and Population Policies Reconsidered: Health, Empowerment and Rights (Harvard University Press, 1994).

She has received numerous honorary doctorates from several  Universities