Head, Health Communication and Adjunct Additional Professor
Dr Menon is a health communication and advocacy expert who has worked in the health field in India for over two decades and in diverse capacities covering professional and community activist experiences.
She is an award-winning and prolific writer with more than 400 articles and features published in Indian and international newspapers and magazines. She is the author of four books. Her critically acclaimed book on urban India’s public health scenario, No Place to Go: Stories of Hope and Despair from India’s Ailing Health Sector (Penguin Books, 2004) was short-listed for the New India Foundation Prize. Her journalistic career spans 15 years during which she was also Principal Correspondent (Health, Science and Environment) for the India Today magazine, covering health, science and environment news.
Dr. Menon has worked over the years to increasingly focus on the improvement of public health in India through credible health journalism, communication and advocacy, consensus and capacity building, policy analysis, research, and writing. An active contributor to India’s HIV/AIDS response, she has led a technical, advocacy capacity building effort supported by Avahan – the India AIDS Initiative of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. The EAP worked on supporting and enhancing HIV/AIDS advocacy efforts to create a strengthened enabling environment for vulnerable populations to claim their rights. Prior to this she was Editor-in-Chief and Project Director at the International AIDS Vaccine Initiative (IAVI) in India and a senior member of the core team that initiated the first AIDS vaccine trial in the country.
She has a doctoral degree in Reproductive Biology from the University of Delhi and taught under-graduate botany at the same university for four years. .
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