Sujata Srinivasan
Senior Health ReporterSujata Srinivasan is Connecticut Public Radio’s senior health reporter. Prior to that, she was a senior producer for Where We Live, a newsroom editor, and from 2010-2014, a business reporter for the station.
She comes to radio from print, and more than two decades before that, television. Her reporting ranges from covering the insider trading trial of Goldman Sachs board member Rajat Gupta from a New York courthouse for the Indian edition of Forbes, where she was an independent U.S. correspondent; and data-driven coverage of the financial relationship between physicians and pharma companies for the nonprofit Connecticut Health Investigative Team, founded by two Pulitzer women journalists; to telemedicine’s early days of bringing health care to rural India when she was a correspondent at TV 18-CNBC in Chennai.
Sujata was promoted to interim bureau chief and tasked with assuming leadership as bureau chief. But then, she met a man from Connecticut, fell in love, and immigrated to the U.S. She is the mother of a bright spark, and also mothers her rescue dog Panju Muttai (Cotton Candy), made of tail power and love.
She’s worked as editor of Connecticut Business Magazine, assigning and editing award-winning work; the Connecticut correspondent for Crain’s Business; longtime independent contributor to the Hartford Courant and Hartford Business Journal; business correspondent for the North American edition of the Indian Express; contributing editor to the Connecticut Economic Resource Center; senior financial editor supporting the Chicago investment firm Thomas White International, where she trained offshore analysts in financial report writing; and instructor of economics at Saint Joseph University.
Sujata is passionate about health equity, corporate accountability, the economics and ethics of health care, policy impact, climate change and health, science and innovation, and the human condition.
She has a Master’s in Economics from Trinity College, Hartford; a Post Graduate Diploma (Hons) from the Times School of Journalism, New Delhi; a Bachelor’s in Business from the University of Madras, Chennai; and a diploma in Storytelling from Kathalaya Trust, Bangalore, in collaboration with the Scottish Storytelling Institute.
Sujata was a museum teacher at the Mark Twain House, and is the author of an audio biography of Twain, produced by Columbia River Entertainment (2009), and the author of Forged by Flame: A Biography of Dr. Rachel Chacko, Zero Degree Publishing (Forthcoming, 2023).
Got a story? She can be reached at ssrinivasan@ctpublic.org.
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State officials say supporting breastfeeding is a priority for Connecticut, which also recently enacted new laws aimed at promoting the work of doulas. -
U.S. Senator Chris Murphy in a new report warned state lawmakers of private equity in rural hospitals -
Families in Connecticut are struggling to find care — and some are heading out of state — following the closure of two hospital-based gender-affirming care programs. -
A complaint against Bridgeport Public Schools says rights of students with autism were violated -
A new study from Jackson Lab links “invisible” gut microbiome to chronic fatigue syndrome. -
Statewide, 98.3% of kindergarteners were vaccinated against MMR for the 2024-25 school year. -
Federal cuts could produce big insurance hikes on CT's health care exchange, state comptroller warnsNearly 100,000 people on the Connecticut health exchange should brace for a sticker shock, if President Donald Trump and U.S. Congress fail to extend what are known as the enhanced premium tax credits by the end of this year, according to a new report from the state comptroller’s office. -
Connecticut Public Radio's senior health reporter takes her first tai chi class at Great River Park in East Hartford, Connecticut. -
An update to state e-bike laws goes into effect Oct. 1, and local police departments are spreading the word on social media. -
Alzheimer's patients and their caregivers make art at the Mattatuck Museum's free monthly program, offered by the Connecticut Chapter of the Alzheimer's Association.
