Prashanth N Srinivas, Director 

Director & Health equity cluster lead

Prashanth is a medical doctor and public health researcher with experience in working in primary health care and community settings in southern Karnataka (India). He works at the intersections of healthcare and health systems with ecological and social systems with a particular focus on health inequities and social determinants of health. He leads a research group that focuses on transformative action on health inequities at the Institute of Public Health Bengaluru (India). His work critically examines the apparently transformative dimensions of technological solutions to health inequities vis-a-vis addressing fundamental issues of social inequality, exclusion and governance. He has been a champion of open knowledge and contributes actively to English Wikipedia, Wikimedia Commons, Internet Archive and various other open knowledge and open data projects. Since 2014, he has been living and working at a long-term public health learning site at BR Hills Tiger Reserve in southern India. He has served as the Chair of Emerging Voices for Global Health (2015-2019) and serves as the Vice-Chair of the General Council of the Institute of Tropical Medicine, Antwerp (Belgium). His research has been published in international peer-reviewed journals. Through a fellowship from the DBT/Wellcome Trust India Alliance (2017-2022), he set up collaborations to examine health inequities in Adivasi (Indigenous) communities in multiple remote forested locations in southern, central and northeast India. Prashanth brings a policy and systems lens to health and healthcare problems of populations and is partial to social science research methods, particularly realist evaluation, implementation research and participatory action research approaches in addition to experience with quantitative epidemiological methods. He has been an early contributor and editor on the English Wikipedia with over 17,000 edits to various topics and articles. He also serves on editorial boards of Health Policy & Planning (Oxford University Press) & PLoS Global Public Health. He is a marathon runner and a birder with active contributions to eBird. He is also a licensed ham radio operator.

email: director@iphindia.org / prashanthns@iphindia.org