Devi Lalita Sridhar FRSE (born 1984) is an American public health researcher, who is both professor and chair of global public health at the University of Edinburgh, Scotland. Her research considers the effectiveness of public health interventions and how to improve developmental assistance for health. Sridhar directs the University of Edinburgh’s Global Health Governance Programme which she established in 2014.
Sridhar has written two books, The Battle Against Hunger: Choice, Circumstance and the World Bank Governing Global Health: Who Runs the World and Why?, (co-written with Chelsea Clinton) and Preventable: How a Pandemic Changed the World & How to Stop the Next One.
Books in order of publication:
The Battle Against Hunger: Choice, Circumstance, and the World Bank (Oxford: Oxford University Press) – 2008
Anthropologists Inside Organisations: South Asian Case Studies (Thousand Oaks, CA: SAGE Publications) – 2008
Healthy Ideas: Improving Global Health and Development in the 21st Century (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press) – 2014
Governing Global Health: Who Runs the World and Why? (Oxford: Oxford University Press) – 2017
Preventable: How a Pandemic Changed the World & How to Stop the Next One – 2022
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