1. Sunetra Gupta was born on 15 March 1965 and is an Indian-born British infectious disease epidemiologist and a professor of theoretical epidemiology at the Department of Zoology, University of Oxford.
16 Facts About Sunetra Gupta
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Sunetra Gupta 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.
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Sunetra Gupta is a member of the scientific advisory board of Collateral Global, an organisation which examines the global impact of COVID-19 restrictions.
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Sunetra Gupta was born in Kolkata, India, to Dhruba and Minati Sunetra Gupta.
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Sunetra Gupta trained in biology, and was awarded a bachelor's degree from Princeton University.
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Sunetra Gupta is a professor of theoretical epidemiology in the Department of Zoology at the University of Oxford, where she leads a team of infectious disease epidemiologists.
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Sunetra Gupta has undertaken research on various infectious diseases, including malaria, HIV, influenza, bacterial meningitis and COVID-19.
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Sunetra Gupta is a supernumerary fellow of Merton College, Oxford.
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Sunetra Gupta sits on the European Advisory Board of Princeton University Press.
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Sunetra Gupta has been awarded the 2007 Scientific Medal by the Zoological Society of London and the 2009 Royal Society Rosalind Franklin Award.
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In July 2013, Sunetra Gupta's portrait was on display during the prestigious Royal Society's Summer Science Exhibition along with leading female scientist such as Madame Curie.
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Sunetra Gupta has been a critic of lockdowns in the pandemic.
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Sunetra Gupta was one of the three authors of the Great Barrington Declaration in 2020, which advocated lifting COVID-19 restrictions on lower-risk groups to develop herd immunity through infection, while stating that vulnerable people should be protected from the virus.
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Sunetra Gupta was a translator of the poetry of Rabindranath Tagore.
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Sunetra Gupta's novels have been awarded the Sahitya Akademi Award, the Southern Arts Literature Prize, shortlisted for the Crossword Award, and longlisted for the Orange Prize.
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Sunetra Gupta has dismissed claims of having a right-wing perspective, claiming to be "more Left than Labour".