Sunetra Gupta
Sunetra Gupta | |
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Gupta in 2020 | |
| Born | 15 March 1965 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) |
Sunetra Gupta (born 15 March 1965) 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.
Gupta is also a novelist and a recipient of the Sahitya Akademi Award.