Sujatha Rao

Sujatha Rao is Secretary of Health and Family Welfare, at the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare in India. She was formerly Additional Secretary and Director General of National AIDS Control Organization, Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, Government of India. She began her work in the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare as director (Media) and later served as joint secretary. In 2004 she was appointed secretary of the National Commission on Macroeconomics and Health, which was co-chaired by the Union Ministers of Finance and Health. The report of this commission is now the basis for much of the health-sector reform under way in the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare. She was a Takemi Fellow at the Harvard School of Public Health during 2001–2002 and has published several papers and articles on health and public policy matters. Rao was recently nominated chair of the Portfolio Committee of the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis, and Malaria.