Sujata Srinivasan
Senior Health Reporter/Senior Producer, "Where We Live"Sujata Srinivasan is a Senior Producer for Where We Live, the flagship news-based, call-in talk show from Connecticut Public Radio, featuring deep dives at the intersection of data-driven narrative and investigative long-form journalism. She's also an editor for the Connecticut Public newsroom.
An award-winning journalist with over 20 plus years of reporting and editorial experience for print, online, television, and radio outlets in the U.S. and abroad – including four years as Business Reporter for Connecticut Public Radio – Sujata specializes in Business and Health, and is passionate about economic and health inequity, corporate accountability, sustainability, innovation culture, workplace gender equity, the economics and ethics of consumption, policy impact on industry, and the human condition.
She was previously an independent U.S. correspondent for the Indian edition of Forbes, editor of Connecticut Business Magazine, Connecticut correspondent for Crain’s Business, longtime independent contributor to the Hartford Courant and Hartford Business Journal, contributing editor to the Connecticut Economic Resource Center, senior financial editor supporting the Chicago investment firm Thomas White International, and instructor of economics at Saint Joseph University, among others. She continues to report independently for the women-founded nonprofit Connecticut Health Investigative Team.
Prior to that, Sujata was the interim bureau chief of CNBC-TV 18 in Chennai, India, tasked with expanding her bureau and set to be promoted to Bureau Chief, when she chose to follow her heart and get married to her husband, and relocate to the U.S. to be with him. She is the mother of a child made of sunshine, curiosity, mischief, and love. She also mothers her rescue dog Panju Muttai (Cotton Candy), who is made of stubbornness, tail power, and love.
Sujata has a Master’s in Economics from Trinity College, Hartford; a Post Graduate Diploma (Hons) from the Times School of Journalism, New Delhi; and a Bachelor’s in Business from the University of Madras, Chennai.
Got an idea for a show? Email her at ssrinivasan@ctpublic.org
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Nurses and hospital administrators have negotiated unsuccessfully for several months over pay and other matters. -
Seventy-two people were laid off at YNHH, which is projecting losses of $300 million in the face of inflation.
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The Department of Mental Health and Addiction Services is improving access to the suicide prevention hotline through a centralized call center shared with the Department of Children and Families and operated by the United Way of Connecticut.
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This hour on Where We Live, we look at new studies to understand why some people live to be 90 and older. And, what can everyone do to stay healthy and live long?
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Data from the Centers for Medicare & Medicare Services show Connecticut is first in New England for processing times of Medicaid applications, behind three other states – Maryland, New York and Oklahoma.
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A federally funded collaboration between the University of Connecticut Health Center, the University of Connecticut School of Education, and the University of Massachusetts-Lowell is researching to find ways to reduce burnout and stress among teachers and improve retention.
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Windham Hospital could face a two-day nurses’ strike starting Sept. 22. Pay structures are the key point of contention, but union and hospital officials said they are ready to meet at the bargaining table.
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This hour on Where We Live, we look at stress and burnout among teachers and paraeducators, and what’s being done to support people who care for our children.
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Yale and UConn treatment procedures are resulting in fewer hospitalizations and full cures for patients with sickle cell disease.
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A Yale infectious disease expert advises parents to vaccinate their young children against the coronavirus.
