Prof Rama Baru

Dr Rama Baru is a professor at the Centre of Social Medicine and Community Health, Jawaharlal Nehru University. She has taught the Masters in Public Health and PhD programmes in the Centre for the last 26 years. She is an Honorary Fellow with the Institute of Chinese Studies, Delhi and an Honorary Professor at India Studies Centre, Central China Normal University, Wuhan, China. Her research focus is on social determinants of health and infectious diseases, health policy, international health, privatisation of health services and inequalities in health. She is the author of Private Health Care in India:Social Characteristics and Trends Sage Publication.  She has edited several volumes on School Health Services in India: The Social and Economic Contexts (Sage Publication); Medical Insurance Schemes for the Poor: Who Benefits?(Academic Publication); a co-edited volume with Anuj Kapilashrami titled ‘Global Health Governance and Commercialisation of Public Health in India: Actors, Institutions and the Dialectics of Global and Local’ published by Routledge. Her latest is co-authored book (with Madhurima Nundy) ‘ Commercialisation of Medical Care in China: Changing Landscapes (Routledge).

She has published extensively in journals and contributed to several edited volumes. She was awarded the Balzan Fellowship by the University College, London and the Indo-Shastri Canadian Fellowship, Yusuf Hamied Fellowship at the Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University, New York.

She was formerly a member of the TAG for Filariasis at WHO, Geneva. She chaired the committee that developed the curriculum for gender mainstreaming in the National Tuberculosis programme, India. She is currently on several research and ethics committees in the Indian Council for Medical Research, Department of Health Research and the All India Institute of Medical Sciences, India.