Research Areas:
Health and Population; Gender and Development; Inequality

Recent Consulting:
Special Advisor to the Executive Director on Economic Security and Rights, UNIFEM, New York, 2006- 2007
External Advisor to the Open University, UK (MSc in Global Development Management Programme Board), 2003-current
Consultant to UNFPA, New Delhi (Drafting the Country Population Assessment document for 2003-2007)
External Advisor, Country Assistance Review - India, The World Bank, 1999-2000

Current Projects:
Fostering Knowledge Implementation Links Project (sponsored by Karnataka Health System Development and Reform Project, Department of Health and Family Welfare Services, Government of Karnataka) http://fkilp.iimb.ernet.in
Gender and Health Equity Project, Koppal district (Karnataka) (sponsored by the MacArthur Foundation, Sida, Rockefeller Foundation, Ford Foundation)
Social protection in India: policies, experiences and challenges (for UN Research Institute on Social Development)
Women and Gender Equity as Social Determinants of Health (for WHO's Independent Commission on Social Determinants of Health)

Academic Positions:
IIM Bangalore: 1993 - 2000; 2006 - present
Sir Ratan Tata Chair Professor, Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore, 2000 - 2006
Adjunct Professor of Global Health and Population, Harvard School of Public Health, Harvard University, 2002-current
Visiting Professor, Center for Population and Development Studies, Harvard University, 1991-93
Distinguished Mellon Professor, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, New York 1990-91
Fellow (Professor), Centre for Development Studies, Trivandrum, 1984 - 1992
Visiting Associate Professor, Department of Economics, New School for Social Research, New York, Fall 1984
Associate Fellow (Assoc Professor), Centre for Development Studies, Trivandrum, 1981-1984
Assistant Professor, Department of Economics, Graduate Faculty, New School for Social Research, New York, 1976-1981
Assistant Professor, Department of Economics, Scarborough College, University of Toronto, Canada, 1975-76
Lecturer, Miranda House, University of Delhi, 1970-71

Awards:
Honorary Doctorate, University of Sussex, UK, February 2012
Honorary Doctor of Medicine and Foreign Adjunct Professor, Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, May 2003
D.Litt (honoris causa), University of East Anglia, Norwich, 1998
Volvo Environment Prize, 1994
Fulbright Fellowship, 1990-91

Corporate / Public Sector Leadership:
Boards:
Member, Mission Steering Group, National Rural Health Mission, Govt of India, 2008-2010
Member, Governing Council, United Nations University, Tokyo, 2007- current
Member, Governing Board, National Health Systems Resource Centre, Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, Govt of India, 2007 - current
Member, Key Advisory Group of Experts, Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, Govt of India, 2006 - current
Member, Board of Governors, Institute of Development Studies, Sussex, 2002 - 2008
Member, Expert Group on Development Issues, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Sweden, 2005 - 2007
Member, Board of Governors, Indian Institute of Management Bangalore, November 2004 - 2006
Member of the Board, United Nations Research Institute for Social Development (UNRISD), Geneva, 1997 - 2003
Vice-Chairperson of the Board, International Women's Health Coalition, New York, 1997 - 2002
Member, Board of Trustees, HealthWatch, 1998-2008
Vice-President, Society for International Development, Rome, 1997-2000
Chairperson, External Gender Consultative Group, The World Bank, Washington D.C., 1998 - 2000

Award Committees:
Member, Prize Committee, Volvo Environment Prize, 2000 - current (currently Chairperson)
Member, Judging Panel for Awards for Human Development, UNDP, 2002, 2007

Technical Committees:
Co-Chair, Technical Advisory Group on Gender Equality and Health, Pan American Health Organization (PAHO), 2008 - current
Member, Technical Resource Group on Monitoring & Evaluation, National AIDS Control Organisation, Govt of India, 2007 - current
Member, Academic Committee, Public Health Foundation of India, 2007 - current
Member, Global Health Advisory Committee, Open Society Institute, New York, 2006 - current
Co-coordinator, Knowledge Network on Women and Gender Equity, Independent Commission on the Social Determinants of Health, World Health Organisation, 2005 - 2008
Member, Taskforce on Research Priorities for Equity in Health, World Health Organisation, 2004-2005
Member, Advisory Council, Population Foundation of India, 2004 - current
Member, India Advisory Group, Packard Foundation, 2003- current
Member, United Nations Secretary General's Millenium Project Taskforce on Gender and Education, 2002 - 2005
Member, National Consultative Group, United Nations Population Fund, New Delhi, 2001- 2004
Member, Global Advisory Committee on Health Research, World Health Organisation, Geneva, 2000 - 2005
Member, International Advisory Committee for the Report on the Development Studies Sector in the UK, DfiD, UK, 1999
Chairperson, International Advisory Group, Program on Population, MacArthur Foundation, Chicago, 1996 - 2001
Member, Committee on Gender and Population, International Union for the Scientific Study of Population, 1995 - 1999

Membership in Editorial Boards:

Member, Editorial Advisory Board, Zed Books, 2006 - current
Member, International Advisory Board, In Focus (UNDP Poverty Centre), 2005 - current
Member, International Editorial Advisory Board, Global Public Health, 2005 - current
Asia Corresponding Editor, Journal of International Development, 2001 - current
Member, Advisory Board, Journal of Human Development, 1999 - current
Member, Advisory Board, Global Environmental Politics, 1999 - current
Member, Editorial Board, Journal of Social and Economic Change, 1997 - current
Member, Board of General Advisors, Encyclopaedia of Life Support Systems, 1996 - 1998
Member, Editorial Advisory Board, Gender, Technology and Development, 1996 - current
Contributing Editor, Environment, 1995 - 1997
Member, Editorial Advisory Board, Development and Change, 1995 - current
Member, Editorial Board, Gender and Development, 1994 - current
Member, Editorial Advisory Board of Development, the Journal of the Society for International Development, 1994-current
Member, Editorial Board, The Women and Development Annual, 1989-1990
International Correspondent, Signs: the Journal of Women in Culture and Society, 1984 - 89.
Editorial Consultant, Feminist Studies, 1984-86

Significant Publications:
1. (Guest editor) Gender Inequity in Health: Why It Exists and How We Can Change It Special Supplement, Global Public Health, 2008 3(2): Supplement 1
Unequal, unfair, ineffective and inefficient: Gender inequity in health - Why it exists and how we can change it, Final report to the WHO Commission on Social Determinants of Health by the Women and Gender Equity Knowledge Network, 2007 .
2. Engendering International Health: the Challenge of Equity , Cambridge, The MIT Press, 2002
3. Women's Empowerment and Demographic Processes - Moving Beyond Cairo, Oxford, Oxford University Press / International Studies in Demography, 2000
4. Gender Mainstreaming in Finance: a reference manual for governments and other stakeholders, London, Commonwealth Secretariat, 1999
5. Population Policies Reconsidered: Health, Empowerment and Rights, Cambridge, Harvard University Press, 1994
6. Gender, Economic Growth and Poverty: Market Growth and State Planning in Asia and the Pacific, New Delhi, Asian and Pacific Development Centre / Kali for Women, 1994
7. Development, Crises, and Alternative Visions - Third World Women's Perspectives, New York, Monthly Review Press, 1987
8. (with Erik Blas et al) "Addressing social determinants of health inequities: what can the state and civil society do?" The Lancet, volume 372, Number 9650, pages 1684-9, November 8-14, 2008
9. "Informal institutions and gender equality" in Informal Institutions - How Social Norms Help or Hinder Development (eds) Johannes Jutting, Denis Drechsler, Sebastian Bartsch and Indra de Soysa, 2007, Development Centre Studies, OECD, Paris
10. "The role of solidarity in institutions of governance" in Studies in Development, Security and Culture. Volume II: Human Values and Global Governance, (ed) Bjorn Hettne 2007 Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.
11. (with Aditi Iyer and Asha George) "The dynamics of gender and class in access to health care: evidence from rural Karnataka, India" International Journal of Health Services, Volume 37, Number 3, Pages 537-554, 2007
12. "Priorities for research to take forward the health equity policy agenda" Bulletin of the World Health Organisation, vol 83, no 12, December 2005
13. "Paying attention to gender and poverty in health research: content and process issues" Bulletin of the World Health Organisation, vol 82, no 10, October 2004
14. "Health research and policy: the case for gender equity" in Journal of Health Management, 4:2, July-December 2002
15. "Structural Reforms and Health Equity: A Comparison of NSS Surveys of 1986-87 and 1995-96" Economic and Political Weekly, vol XXXVII No 14 April 6-12, 2002
16. "Gender mainstreaming in finance ministries," World Development, July 2000 (German translation in Femina Politica, 1/2002)
17. "Empowerment as an approach to poverty", Human Development Papers 1997 - Poverty and Human Development, UNDP, New York, 1997
18. "Gender, markets and states: a selective review and research agenda," World Development 26:5 May 1996
19. "World hunger, livelihoods and the environment" in Planet Earth - Problems and Prospects (eds) James A. Leith, Raymond Price and John Spencer, McGill-Queen's University Press, 1995
20. "Creating common ground between environmentalists and women: thinking locally, acting globally?" Ambio: a Journal of the Human Environment XXIV:1 February 1995