
Sujata Srinivasan
Senior Health ReporterSujata Srinivasan is ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø 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 ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø 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 ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø, 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 ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø Business Magazine, assigning and editing award-winning work; the ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø 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 ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø 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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ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø obtuvo dos calificaciones reprobatorias en el más reciente informe de “Estado de control del tabaco†de la Asociación Americana del Pulmón, que fue publicado el pasado miércoles. El informe señala al estado por no detener la venta de todos los productos de tabaco con sabores y por no financiar programas de prevención de consumo de tabaco de forma adecuada.
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Sam Shwartz and Kara Anglim married after finding love at Chapel Haven Schleifer Center in New Haven.
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Officials in ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø are looking into the legal cost of challenging President Donald Trump’s executive orders.
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Gov. Ned Lamont’s biennial budget proposal set aside more funding for community nonprofits that deliver state-contracted services, but nonprofits are still concerned.
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The pause had students and post-doctoral fellows across the country and in ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø worried about paying bills.
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Lawmakers and health care workers urged Trinity Health of New England to reverse a staffing decision they said would adversely affect hospital employees and patients.
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The report calls out the state for not ending the sale of all flavored tobacco products and for not adequately funding state tobacco prevention programs.
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Lawmakers are considering several proposals this session to better regulate private equity in health care, after similar legislation failed in chamber last year.
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The settlement, which was announced by attorneys general from several states Thursday, represents an increase over a previous settlement deal that was rejected last year by the U.S. Supreme Court.
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