Fellows & Editors

Vidya Krishnan

Trip:: Fellows 2015
Affiliation:: Freelance
Country:: South Africa
Year:: 2015

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Vidya Krishnan is a New Delhi-based journalist with 13 years of experience in covering public health in India. She completed her master's degree in critical media and cultural studies from the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London in 2011. After returning to India, she consulted with the Indian health ministry’s thinktank, Public Health Foundation of India, which supports government’s decisionmaking with research to ensure evidence-based policymaking in the country. While consulting with PHFI, she also wrote for Mint, a mainstream financial daily in India. In 2013, she authored India’s National Health Profile for the India office of the World Health Organization. For PHFI & WHO, her work was mainly to gather health intelligence, in a report on India’s epidemiological changes in the past decade, map health financing and policy trends to help government decisionmaking. Previously, she covered public health for national dailies like The Indian Express and The Hindustan Times. She also contributes to the British Medical Journal and Caravan magazine.

Stories

Drug Deals: How Big Pharma and the Indian Government Are Letting Millions of Patients Down

by Krishnan, Vidya | March 01, 2016

THE DELHI OFFICE of the controller general of patents, designs and trademarks is situated in the neighbourhood of Dwarka Sector 14, a 45-minute drive from the capital’s centres of power....
South Africa Aims to Detect Every TB Patient, While a Million Cases in India Slip Through the Cracks

by Krishnan, Vidya | August 03, 2015

This year on March 24, on the occasion of World Tuberculosis Day, global attention was sharply drawn towards the disease when British Prime Minister David Cameron launched a report by an expert panel...
South Africa Moves Towards Universal Health Care, While India Stagnates

by Krishnan, Vidya | July 27, 2015

South Africa's bold new proposal for universal health coverage in the face of stiff opposition from private health care providers is likely to become a model for providing sustainable health care...