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Suneeta Krishnan

Expertise

Gender Issues and HIV Risk
Reproductive Health
HIV/AIDS
Sexually Transmitted Diseases

Biography

Suneeta Krishnan, PhD, is an epidemiologist who has conducted community-based research on the links between gender and other social inequalities and reproductive and sexual health in India. Dr. Krishnan is currently conducting research on gender-based power and reproductive health among adults and adolescents in Karnataka State, India. She is the principal investigator of a National Institute of Child Health and Human Development-funded study on gender-based power and susceptibility to HIV/STIs in Bangalore, India. She is also a co-investigator on studies related to gender and adolescent girls' susceptibility to HIV/STIs, adherence to antiretroviral therapy, and AIDS-related stigma in Karnataka State, India.

Education

PhD, Epidemiology, University of California, Berkeley; MS, Epidemiology, University of California, Berkeley; AB (summa cum laude), Biological Sciences, Barnard College.

Selected Publications

Krishnan, S., Dunbar, M.S., Minnis, A.M., Medlin, C.A., Gerdts, C.E., & Padian, N.S. (Jun 2008). Poverty, gender inequities and women's risk of human immunodeficiency virus/AIDS. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, 1136:101-110.

Krishnan, S. (Jan-Mar 2006). Adolescent girls and marriage decision-making in India: Questions of competency, choice and consent. Indian Journal of Medical Ethics, III (1).

Ramanathan, M., Krishnan, S., & Bhan, A. (Jan-Mar 2006). Reporting on the first national bioethics conference. Indian Journal of Medical Ethics, III (1).

Krishnan, S. (June 2005). Do structural inequalities contribute to marital violence? Ethnographic evidence from rural South India. Violence Against Women, 11 (6):759-775.

Krishnan, S. (Jan-Mar 2005). Dynamic relationships in community-based research. Indian Journal of Medical Ethics, 2 (1).

Krishnan, S. (Jan 2005). Gender, caste, and economic inequalities and marital violence in rural South India. Health Care for Women International, 26 (1):87-99.

Reingold, A.L., & Krishnan, S. (2001). The study of potentially stigmatizing conditions: An epidemiologic perspective. Presented at the Stigma and Global Health: Developing a Research Agenda, An International Conference, September 5-7, 2001, Bethesda, Maryland, 2001.

Krishnan, S., Koehler, J.E., Benjamin, R., & Reingold, A.L. (Aug 1, 1996). Reducing delays in the laboratory diagnosis of tuberculosis. American Journal of Public Health, 86 (8 Pt 1):1171-1172.

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