Join 3-D Commission Chair Dr. Sandro Galea and Professor Sundari Ravindran as they discuss the underlying forces that shape our health, the data that illuminate those forces, and the decisions that, when guided by data, can influence our collective health for the better. Following the discussion, all in attendance will be able to interact with and ask questions of the speakers. We hope this conversation will be the start of an informed and stimulating global engagement with these critical ideas. Closed captioning in multiple languages will be available. Registration is available here.
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Professor Sundari Ravindran
Principal Visiting Fellow, United Nations University International Institute for Global Health
TK Sundari Ravindran is currently Principal Visiting Fellow at the United Nations University International Institute for Global Health, and Visiting Faculty at the School of Public Health, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa. She holds a PhD in Applied Economics and served for twenty years as Professor of Public Health in the Achutha Menon Centre for Health Science Studies, Sree Chitra Tirunal Institute for Medical Sciences and Technology, Trivandrum.
Sundari’s research interests include inequities in health, with a focus on gender-based inequities, sexual and reproductive health and rights, political economy of health, and health systems research. She has been a researcher, activist, and trainer working at the local and international levels for close to four decades. She is founding co-editor of Reproductive Health Matters (now Sexual and Reproductive Health Matters) and is currently a member of its editorial advisory board. She has worked with the World Health Organization in its headquarters and regional offices in various capacities. Sundari is a founder-member of CommonHealth, a National Coalition for Reproductive Health and Safe Abortion (India). She is also a founder Member of Rural Women’s Social Education Centre, a grassroots women’s health organization in Tamil Nadu, and has been involved in the organization’s activities in various capacities since its inception in 1981.