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'''Devi Lalita Sridhar''' is a professor of global public health at the [[University of Edinburgh]]. Her research considers the effectiveness of public health interventions and how to improve developmental assistance for health. A [[WEF/Young Global Leader]], she advocates on British [[corporate media]] for harsh restrictions and a "[[Zero COVID]]" strategy. | '''Devi Lalita Sridhar''' is a professor of global public health at the [[University of Edinburgh]]. Her research considers the effectiveness of public health interventions and how to improve developmental assistance for health. A [[WEF/Young Global Leader]], she advocates on British [[corporate media]] for harsh restrictions and a "[[Zero COVID]]" strategy. | ||
− | She has been giving medical advice to [[Nicola Sturgeon]]. She was extremely jab-happy when it comes to children<ref>https://t.me/covid19vaccinevictims/2104</ref>, and claimed that "the [[COVID-19/Vaccines|vaccines]] are 100% [[safe and effective]] for children" in a video made for [ | + | She has been giving medical advice to [[Nicola Sturgeon]]. She was extremely jab-happy when it comes to children<ref>https://t.me/covid19vaccinevictims/2104</ref>, and claimed that "the [[COVID-19/Vaccines|vaccines]] are 100% [[safe and effective]] for children" in a video made for [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CBBC CBBC]<ref>https://www.bbc.co.uk/newsround/57389353</ref> which the [[BBC]] later rolled back. |
Her expertise has been questioned.<ref name=brownstone/><ref>''[https://citizenjournos.com/2021/11/14/devi-sridhar-expert-or-charlatan/ "Devi Sridhar: Expert or Charlatan?"]''</ref> She blamed excess deaths in Summer 2022 on [[climate change]].<ref>https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/sep/13/whats-behind-the-mystery-of-thousands-of-excess-deaths-this-summer</ref> | Her expertise has been questioned.<ref name=brownstone/><ref>''[https://citizenjournos.com/2021/11/14/devi-sridhar-expert-or-charlatan/ "Devi Sridhar: Expert or Charlatan?"]''</ref> She blamed excess deaths in Summer 2022 on [[climate change]].<ref>https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/sep/13/whats-behind-the-mystery-of-thousands-of-excess-deaths-this-summer</ref> | ||
In 2023, she was claiming [[ULEZ]], [[15-minute city|15-minute cities]] and [[Low Traffic Neighbourhood]]s "save lives".<ref>https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/aug/04/uk-must-follow-europe-lead-prioritising-walking-cycling-public-transport</ref> | In 2023, she was claiming [[ULEZ]], [[15-minute city|15-minute cities]] and [[Low Traffic Neighbourhood]]s "save lives".<ref>https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/aug/04/uk-must-follow-europe-lead-prioritising-walking-cycling-public-transport</ref> | ||
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+ | In January 2024, Sridhar said that she was wrong to push Zero COVID.<ref>https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-13013523/Nicola-Sturgeons-adviser-wrong-push-zero-Covid.html</ref> At the [[COVID-19/Public Inquiry|UK COVID Inquiry]], [[Nicola Sturgeon]] denied that she had a "coordinated media strategy" with Sridhar.<ref>https://www.heraldscotland.com/news/24088426.sturgeon-no-coordinated-media-strategy-devi-sridhar/</ref> | ||
== Early life and education == | == Early life and education == | ||
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From 2008 Devi Sridhar was a postdoctoral fellow at [[All Souls College, Oxford]].<ref>''[https://www.geg.ox.ac.uk/person/dr-devi-sridhar-senior-research-associate "Dr Devi Sridhar, Senior Research Associate"]''</ref> Her first book, ''The Battle Against Hunger'', was selected by ''Foreign Affairs'' as a must read book in aid policy.<ref>[https://www.politics.ox.ac.uk/associates/devi-sridhar.html "Devi Sridhar"]</ref><ref>''[https://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/2010-02-02/what-read-foreign-aid "What to Read on Foreign Aid"]''</ref><ref>''[https://www.geg.ox.ac.uk/news/devi-sridhars-new-book-foreign-affairs-must-read "Devi Sridhar's New Book: A Foreign Affairs Must-Read"]''</ref> The book investigated the [[World Bank]] funded nutrition programme based in India, which became a blueprint for aid programmes despite lack of evidence for its effectiveness. Sridhar was concerned that the programme did not address the social conditions that cause undernutrition in India. | From 2008 Devi Sridhar was a postdoctoral fellow at [[All Souls College, Oxford]].<ref>''[https://www.geg.ox.ac.uk/person/dr-devi-sridhar-senior-research-associate "Dr Devi Sridhar, Senior Research Associate"]''</ref> Her first book, ''The Battle Against Hunger'', was selected by ''Foreign Affairs'' as a must read book in aid policy.<ref>[https://www.politics.ox.ac.uk/associates/devi-sridhar.html "Devi Sridhar"]</ref><ref>''[https://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/2010-02-02/what-read-foreign-aid "What to Read on Foreign Aid"]''</ref><ref>''[https://www.geg.ox.ac.uk/news/devi-sridhars-new-book-foreign-affairs-must-read "Devi Sridhar's New Book: A Foreign Affairs Must-Read"]''</ref> The book investigated the [[World Bank]] funded nutrition programme based in India, which became a blueprint for aid programmes despite lack of evidence for its effectiveness. Sridhar was concerned that the programme did not address the social conditions that cause undernutrition in India. | ||
− | In 2011 Devi Sridhar was appointed to [[Wolfson College (Oxford)]], as an associate professor in global health politics.<ref>''[https://www.ed.ac.uk/profile/devi-sridhar "Devi Sridhar"]''</ref> She serves on the [[World Economic Forum]] Global Agenda Council on the Health Industry. She started to research the rise of public–private partnerships in global health governance, and how, whilst they are crucial to combat infectious disease, their non-transparent accountability and effectiveness should be investigated.<ref>''[https://www.bsg.ox.ac.uk/multimedia/video/governing-global-health-chelsea-clinton-and-devi-sridhar "Governing Global Health with Chelsea Clinton and Devi Sridhar"]''</ref> International organisations are redirected by specific incentives, and the asymmetry of information sharing between member states and groups like the [[World Health Organization]] or [[World Bank]] limits their impact. She worked with [[Chelsea Clinton]] and used principal agent theory to study the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria and the [[GAVI]] Alliance. She worked with [ | + | In 2011 Devi Sridhar was appointed to [[Wolfson College (Oxford)]], as an associate professor in global health politics.<ref>''[https://www.ed.ac.uk/profile/devi-sridhar "Devi Sridhar"]''</ref> She serves on the [[World Economic Forum]] Global Agenda Council on the Health Industry. She started to research the rise of public–private partnerships in global health governance, and how, whilst they are crucial to combat infectious disease, their non-transparent accountability and effectiveness should be investigated.<ref>''[https://www.bsg.ox.ac.uk/multimedia/video/governing-global-health-chelsea-clinton-and-devi-sridhar "Governing Global Health with Chelsea Clinton and Devi Sridhar"]''</ref> International organisations are redirected by specific incentives, and the asymmetry of information sharing between member states and groups like the [[World Health Organization]] or [[World Bank]] limits their impact. She worked with [[Chelsea Clinton]] and used principal agent theory to study the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria and the [[GAVI]] Alliance. She worked with [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julio_Frenk Julio Frenk] on the need for an independent and impartial [[World Health Organisation]].<ref>''[https://dash.harvard.edu/bitstream/1/37260724/1/Global_Rules_for_Global_Health_Why_We_Need_An_Independent_Impartial_WHO.pdf "Global rules for global health: why we need an independent, impartial WHO"]''</ref> |
Devi Sridhar investigated the international response to the West African [[Ebola]] virus epidemic, and what reforms were needed to heal a global system for outbreak response. She partnered with the Harvard Global Health Institute and [[London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine]] to independently analyse the global response. She established ten essential reforms to prevent and respond to the next pandemic. In 2014, at the age of thirty, Sridhar was promoted to full Professor and Chair at the [[University of Edinburgh]] and became the founding Director of the Global Health Governance Programme.<ref>[http://globalhealthgovernance.org/team-1 "Team member overview old"]</ref> She works between Edinburgh Medical School and the [[Blavatnik School of Government]]. Sridhar compiled the first [[Wellcome Trust]] Open Research Collection on the topic of Global Public Health.<ref>''[https://wellcomeopenresearch.org/collections/worldbank/about-this-collection "About this collection - Wellcome Open Research"]''</ref> She is concerned by the rise of chronic disease, drug-resistant infection and funding for primary healthcare.<ref>''[http://www.euro.who.int/en/media-centre/events/events/2018/06/health-systems-for-prosperity-and-solidarity-leaving-no-one-behind/commentaries/professor-devi-sridhar,-university-of-edinburgh,-scotland,-united-kingdom "Professor Devi Sridhar, University of Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom"]''</ref> | Devi Sridhar investigated the international response to the West African [[Ebola]] virus epidemic, and what reforms were needed to heal a global system for outbreak response. She partnered with the Harvard Global Health Institute and [[London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine]] to independently analyse the global response. She established ten essential reforms to prevent and respond to the next pandemic. In 2014, at the age of thirty, Sridhar was promoted to full Professor and Chair at the [[University of Edinburgh]] and became the founding Director of the Global Health Governance Programme.<ref>[http://globalhealthgovernance.org/team-1 "Team member overview old"]</ref> She works between Edinburgh Medical School and the [[Blavatnik School of Government]]. Sridhar compiled the first [[Wellcome Trust]] Open Research Collection on the topic of Global Public Health.<ref>''[https://wellcomeopenresearch.org/collections/worldbank/about-this-collection "About this collection - Wellcome Open Research"]''</ref> She is concerned by the rise of chronic disease, drug-resistant infection and funding for primary healthcare.<ref>''[http://www.euro.who.int/en/media-centre/events/events/2018/06/health-systems-for-prosperity-and-solidarity-leaving-no-one-behind/commentaries/professor-devi-sridhar,-university-of-edinburgh,-scotland,-united-kingdom "Professor Devi Sridhar, University of Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom"]''</ref> | ||
− | She regularly contributes to the [[BBC World Service]], [[CNN]], [[Channel 4 News]], and [[BBC Radio 4]].<ref>''[https://www.hayfestival.com/artist.aspx?artistid=9032 "Hay Festival"]''</ref> She is a member of [ | + | She regularly contributes to the [[BBC World Service]], [[CNN]], [[Channel 4 News]], and [[BBC Radio 4]].<ref>''[https://www.hayfestival.com/artist.aspx?artistid=9032 "Hay Festival"]''</ref> She is a member of [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iyiola_Solanke Iyiola Solanke's Black Professors Forum.] |
==Coronavirus adviser== | ==Coronavirus adviser== | ||
+ | [[image:Devi Sridhar on COVID.png|512px|right]] | ||
In 2020, Devi Sridhar advised the Scottish government on how to deal with the [[COVID-19/Pandemic]] in [[Scotland]].<ref>''[https://www.telegraph.co.uk/global-health/science-and-disease/devi-sridhar-scotlands-strategy-contain-covid-19-unclear-westminster/ "Devi Sridhar: Wealth is the best shielding strategy for this virus - and from severe symptoms"]''</ref> She was a relentless zero COVID advocate.<ref name=brownstone>https://brownstone.org/articles/the-lockdown-advocacy-of-devi-sridhar/</ref> She said that people should never go on a cruise ship, calling them "floating germ factories".<ref>https://www.heraldscotland.com/politics/19542724.nicola-sturgeons-health-adviser-devi-sridhar-says-dont-go-cruise-ship-ever/</ref> | In 2020, Devi Sridhar advised the Scottish government on how to deal with the [[COVID-19/Pandemic]] in [[Scotland]].<ref>''[https://www.telegraph.co.uk/global-health/science-and-disease/devi-sridhar-scotlands-strategy-contain-covid-19-unclear-westminster/ "Devi Sridhar: Wealth is the best shielding strategy for this virus - and from severe symptoms"]''</ref> She was a relentless zero COVID advocate.<ref name=brownstone>https://brownstone.org/articles/the-lockdown-advocacy-of-devi-sridhar/</ref> She said that people should never go on a cruise ship, calling them "floating germ factories".<ref>https://www.heraldscotland.com/politics/19542724.nicola-sturgeons-health-adviser-devi-sridhar-says-dont-go-cruise-ship-ever/</ref> | ||
− | + | She was part of [[WEF/Young Global Leaders 2021]].<ref>https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/magazines/panache/class-of-2021-deepika-padukone-joins-the-list-of-wefs-new-young-global-leaders/articleshow/81431241.cms</ref> She promoted [[vaccine passports]] and [[mask mandates]], as well as a Christmas [[lockdown]] in Winter 2021.<ref>https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/oct/22/britain-control-covid-winter-lockdown-plan-b-vaccine-certification-masks</ref> She praised [[Scotland]] for locking down and criticised [[England]] for not doing so. | |
− | She was part of [[WEF/Young Global Leaders 2021]].<ref>https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/magazines/panache/class-of-2021-deepika-padukone-joins-the-list-of-wefs-new-young-global-leaders/articleshow/81431241.cms</ref> She promoted [[vaccine passports]] and [[mask mandates]], as well as a Christmas [[lockdown]] in Winter 2021.<ref>https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/oct/22/britain-control-covid-winter-lockdown-plan-b-vaccine-certification-masks</ref> She praised [[Scotland]] for locking down and criticised [[England]] for not. | ||
+ | In June 2022, she wrote a scaremongering article in ''[[The Guardian]]'' titled "Don’t be complacent, another [[Covid]] wave is coming. Here’s how we can manage it".<ref>https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/jun/13/rise-covid-cases-what-we-know-so-far</ref> | ||
− | In | + | ==Books== |
+ | In 2016, Devi Sridhar co-authored with [[Chelsea Clinton]] a book entitled [https://www.amazon.co.uk/Governing-Global-Health-Runs-World/dp/0190253274/ "Governing Global Health: Who Runs the World and Why?"] | ||
− | + | Her book on preventing the next pandemic [https://www.amazon.co.uk/Preventable-Pandemic-Changed-World-Stop/dp/0241510538/ "Preventable: How a Pandemic Changed the World & How to Stop the Next One" was published in April 2022.]<ref>https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/mar/23/covid-britain-locked-down-three-years-trauma</ref> | |
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== References == | == References == | ||
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Born | 1984 Miami, Florida, USA |
Nationality | Indian, American |
Alma mater | University of Miami, University of Oxford |
Member of | DELVE, Rhodes Scholar/2003, WEF/Young Global Leaders/2021 |
Interests | • Ebola • Zero COVID |
WEF Young Global Leader pushing SDS policy. In 2020, Devi Sridhar advised the Scottish government on how to deal with COVID in Scotland. Unflinching as to children. |
Devi Lalita Sridhar is a professor of global public health at the University of Edinburgh. Her research considers the effectiveness of public health interventions and how to improve developmental assistance for health. A WEF/Young Global Leader, she advocates on British corporate media for harsh restrictions and a "Zero COVID" strategy.
She has been giving medical advice to Nicola Sturgeon. She was extremely jab-happy when it comes to children[1], and claimed that "the vaccines are 100% safe and effective for children" in a video made for CBBC[2] which the BBC later rolled back.
Her expertise has been questioned.[3][4] She blamed excess deaths in Summer 2022 on climate change.[5]
In 2023, she was claiming ULEZ, 15-minute cities and Low Traffic Neighbourhoods "save lives".[6]
In January 2024, Sridhar said that she was wrong to push Zero COVID.[7] At the UK COVID Inquiry, Nicola Sturgeon denied that she had a "coordinated media strategy" with Sridhar.[8]
Contents
Early life and education
Devi Sridhar was born and raised in Miami, Florida in an Indian family. After graduating from Ransom Everglades School at the age of sixteen, she enrolled in a six-year program at the University of Miami that awards a bachelor's degree in two years, after which students are in the school of medicine.[9] Having received her bachelor's degree in biology at the age of eighteen, Sridhar became the youngest person in the US to be awarded a Rhodes Scholarship. She says she was inspired by her grandmother, who raised her children in the 1960s before completing her DPhil[10] and writing several books. Sridhar used her Rhodes Scholarship for graduate study at the University of Oxford. Her dissertation considered malnutrition in India.[11] She turned down a funded position at Harvard Law School to join the University of Oxford Global Economic Governance Programme in 2006, where she was awarded both MPhil and DPhil degrees.
Career and research
From 2008 Devi Sridhar was a postdoctoral fellow at All Souls College, Oxford.[12] Her first book, The Battle Against Hunger, was selected by Foreign Affairs as a must read book in aid policy.[13][14][15] The book investigated the World Bank funded nutrition programme based in India, which became a blueprint for aid programmes despite lack of evidence for its effectiveness. Sridhar was concerned that the programme did not address the social conditions that cause undernutrition in India.
In 2011 Devi Sridhar was appointed to Wolfson College (Oxford), as an associate professor in global health politics.[16] She serves on the World Economic Forum Global Agenda Council on the Health Industry. She started to research the rise of public–private partnerships in global health governance, and how, whilst they are crucial to combat infectious disease, their non-transparent accountability and effectiveness should be investigated.[17] International organisations are redirected by specific incentives, and the asymmetry of information sharing between member states and groups like the World Health Organization or World Bank limits their impact. She worked with Chelsea Clinton and used principal agent theory to study the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria and the GAVI Alliance. She worked with Julio Frenk on the need for an independent and impartial World Health Organisation.[18]
Devi Sridhar investigated the international response to the West African Ebola virus epidemic, and what reforms were needed to heal a global system for outbreak response. She partnered with the Harvard Global Health Institute and London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine to independently analyse the global response. She established ten essential reforms to prevent and respond to the next pandemic. In 2014, at the age of thirty, Sridhar was promoted to full Professor and Chair at the University of Edinburgh and became the founding Director of the Global Health Governance Programme.[19] She works between Edinburgh Medical School and the Blavatnik School of Government. Sridhar compiled the first Wellcome Trust Open Research Collection on the topic of Global Public Health.[20] She is concerned by the rise of chronic disease, drug-resistant infection and funding for primary healthcare.[21]
She regularly contributes to the BBC World Service, CNN, Channel 4 News, and BBC Radio 4.[22] She is a member of Iyiola Solanke's Black Professors Forum.
In 2020, Devi Sridhar advised the Scottish government on how to deal with the COVID-19/Pandemic in Scotland.[23] She was a relentless zero COVID advocate.[3] She said that people should never go on a cruise ship, calling them "floating germ factories".[24]
She was part of WEF/Young Global Leaders 2021.[25] She promoted vaccine passports and mask mandates, as well as a Christmas lockdown in Winter 2021.[26] She praised Scotland for locking down and criticised England for not doing so.
In June 2022, she wrote a scaremongering article in The Guardian titled "Don’t be complacent, another Covid wave is coming. Here’s how we can manage it".[27]
Books
In 2016, Devi Sridhar co-authored with Chelsea Clinton a book entitled "Governing Global Health: Who Runs the World and Why?"
Her book on preventing the next pandemic "Preventable: How a Pandemic Changed the World & How to Stop the Next One" was published in April 2022.[28]
Related Documents
Title | Type | Publication date | Author(s) | Description |
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Document:Senior spy appointed to lead UK’s joint biosecurity centre | Article | 5 June 2020 | Helen Warrell Sarah Neville | Devi Sridhar, chair of global public health at Edinburgh University, says: “The virus is not worried that you’re tracking its progress, it’s not going to change its tactic. Cybersecurity is not your worry with a virus. It’s a biological phenomenon.” |
Stop the Worsening Undercount of Palestinian Casualties in Gaza | Article | 5 March 2024 | Ralph Nader | From accounts of people on the ground, videos and photographs of deadly episode after episode, plus the resultant mortalities from blocking or smashing the crucial necessities of life, a more likely estimate, in my appraisal, is that at least 200,000 Palestinians must have perished by now and the toll is accelerating by the hour. |
References
- ↑ https://t.me/covid19vaccinevictims/2104
- ↑ https://www.bbc.co.uk/newsround/57389353
- ↑ a b https://brownstone.org/articles/the-lockdown-advocacy-of-devi-sridhar/
- ↑ "Devi Sridhar: Expert or Charlatan?"
- ↑ https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/sep/13/whats-behind-the-mystery-of-thousands-of-excess-deaths-this-summer
- ↑ https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/aug/04/uk-must-follow-europe-lead-prioritising-walking-cycling-public-transport
- ↑ https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-13013523/Nicola-Sturgeons-adviser-wrong-push-zero-Covid.html
- ↑ https://www.heraldscotland.com/news/24088426.sturgeon-no-coordinated-media-strategy-devi-sridhar/
- ↑ "Student named youngest Rhodes Scholar"
- ↑ "The art of the bank : nutrition policy and practice in India"
- ↑ "Alumni Spotlight"
- ↑ "Dr Devi Sridhar, Senior Research Associate"
- ↑ "Devi Sridhar"
- ↑ "What to Read on Foreign Aid"
- ↑ "Devi Sridhar's New Book: A Foreign Affairs Must-Read"
- ↑ "Devi Sridhar"
- ↑ "Governing Global Health with Chelsea Clinton and Devi Sridhar"
- ↑ "Global rules for global health: why we need an independent, impartial WHO"
- ↑ "Team member overview old"
- ↑ "About this collection - Wellcome Open Research"
- ↑ "Professor Devi Sridhar, University of Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom"
- ↑ "Hay Festival"
- ↑ "Devi Sridhar: Wealth is the best shielding strategy for this virus - and from severe symptoms"
- ↑ https://www.heraldscotland.com/politics/19542724.nicola-sturgeons-health-adviser-devi-sridhar-says-dont-go-cruise-ship-ever/
- ↑ https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/magazines/panache/class-of-2021-deepika-padukone-joins-the-list-of-wefs-new-young-global-leaders/articleshow/81431241.cms
- ↑ https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/oct/22/britain-control-covid-winter-lockdown-plan-b-vaccine-certification-masks
- ↑ https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/jun/13/rise-covid-cases-what-we-know-so-far
- ↑ https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/mar/23/covid-britain-locked-down-three-years-trauma
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