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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The University of Connecticut in partnership with Connecticut Foodshare opened its fourth pantry on a UConn campus for food insecure students. -
Sen. Richard Blumenthal, D-Conn., and state Sen. Dr. Saud Anwar, D-South Windsor, proposed legislation Monday to mandate federal and state nurse-to-patient staffing ratios.
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This hour on Where We Live, we hear from two survivors of genocide on why mainstream psychiatric care may not be solely effective in immigrant communities; and which models work best.
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Connecticut aligns with the national data – a drop of about 66 eviction judgments for the average county in the U.S.
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Advocates of the proposed Aid in Dying bill made an emotional plea to state legislators in Hartford on Wednesday to approve the legislation, introduced 15 times in Connecticut since 1994.
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A recent pandemic study from Yale University further strengthens the case for affordable child care, by highlighting the disproportionate burden on working mothers.
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While many Connecticut doctors didn’t oppose decriminalization of marijuana, they are concerned about links between its consumption and mental health in young adults.
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UConn Health’s Pepper Center is recruiting participants for a pilot study to test the hypothesis that apathy affects thinking and decision-making in people over 60.
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The federal government allocated $10 million for long COVID research, and some of that money is arriving in Connecticut, including at Yale and UConn.
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Researchers at Yale University have developed a nasal swab kit that can detect rare, dangerous viruses that escape standard testing.
