Sunetra Gupta
Sunetra Gupta | |
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PhD ) | |
Spouse | |
Children | 2 |
Awards | Scientific Medal of ZSL Rosalind Franklin Award Sahitya Akademi Award |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Epidemiology, evolutionary biology |
Institutions | University of Oxford |
Thesis | Heterogeneity and the transmission dynamics of infectious diseases (1992) |
Sunetra Gupta (born 15 March 1965[2]) is an Indian-born British infectious disease epidemiologist and a professor of theoretical epidemiology at the Department of Zoology, University of Oxford. She has performed research on the transmission dynamics of various infectious diseases, including malaria, influenza and COVID-19, and has received the Scientific Medal of the Zoological Society of London and the Rosalind Franklin Award of the Royal Society. She is a member of the scientific advisory board of Collateral Global, an organisation which examines the global impact of COVID-19 restrictions.[3]
Gupta is also a novelist and a recipient of the Sahitya Akademi Award.
Early life and education
Gupta was born in Kolkata, India, to Dhruba and Minati Gupta.[4] She trained in biology, and was awarded a bachelor's degree from Princeton University. In 1992 she obtained her PhD from Imperial College London for a thesis on the transmission dynamics of infectious diseases.[5]
Career and research
Positions
Gupta is a professor of theoretical
In April 2021, she received a £90,000 donation from the Georg and Emily von Opel Foundation.[8] In May 2022 she joined a partnership with Blue Water Vaccines, Inc. to apply her research to the development of a universal flu vaccine.[9]
Awards
Gupta has been awarded the 2007 Scientific Medal by the
COVID-19
In March 2020, some modelling of the COVID-19 pandemic by Gupta and colleagues was released to the media.[13] Their model suggested that up to 68% of the UK population could already have been infected, suggesting broader immunity and a subsiding threat. The findings differed greatly from the work of other experts and quickly came under criticism.[14] In May that year, she told UnHerd that she believed "the epidemic has largely come and is on its way out in [the UK]. So, I think [the infection fatality rate] would be definitely less than one in a thousand, and probably closer to one in ten thousand."[15][16] Her estimate was impossible at the time given the number of COVID deaths and the size of the UK population.[17] In 2020 the estimates of other experts for the IFR in an unvaccinated population have fallen in a range much higher than this.[18][19][20][21]
Gupta has been a critic of
In 2021, she was an author at the Brownstone Institute, a new think tank founded by Jeffrey Tucker where senior roles were held by Martin Kulldorff and Jay Bhattacharya, her co-authors on the Great Barrington Declaration.[28]
Works of fiction
Gupta wrote her first works of fiction in Bengali. She was a translator of the poetry of
Personal life
Gupta was married to the Irish vaccinologist Adrian V. S. Hill from 1994 to 2020. They have two daughters.[2][31][32] She has dismissed claims of having a right-wing perspective, claiming to be "more Left than Labour".[33]
Selected works
Journal articles
- Gupta, S.; Snow, R. W.; Donnelly, C. A.; Marsh, K.; Newbold, C. (1999). "Immunity to non-cerebral severe malaria is acquired after one or two infections". Nature Medicine. 5 (3): 340–343. S2CID 21758199.
- Ferguson, N.; Anderson, R.; Gupta, S. (1999). "The effect of antibody-dependent enhancement on the transmission dynamics and persistence of multiple-strain pathogens". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 96 (2): 790–794. PMID 9892712.
- Recker, M.; Nee, S.; Bull, P. C.; Kinyanjui, S.; Marsh, K.; Newbold, C.; Gupta, S. (2004). "Transient cross-reactive immune responses can orchestrate antigenic variation in malaria". Nature. 429 (6991): 555–558. S2CID 4403438.
- Gupta, Sunetra (9 August 2001). "Avoiding ambiguity" (PDF). Nature. 412 (6847): 589. S2CID 1528499.
- Recker, M.; Pybus, O. G.; Nee, S.; Gupta, S. (2007). "The generation of influenza outbreaks by a network of host immune responses against a limited set of antigenic types". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 104 (18): 7711–7716. PMID 17460037.
- Buckee, C. O.; Jolley, K. A.; Recker, M.; Penman, B.; Kriz, P.; Gupta, S.; Maiden, M. C. J. (2008). "Role of selection in the emergence of lineages and the evolution of virulence in Neisseria meningitidis". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 105 (39): 15082–7. PMID 18815379.
- Lourenco, José; Pinotti, Francesco; Thompson, Craig; Gupta, Sunetra (2020). "The impact of host resistance on cumulative mortality and the threshold of herd immunity for SARS-CoV-2". medRxiv 10.1101/2020.07.15.20154294.
Novels
- Memories of Rain (1992)
- The Glassblower's Breath (1993)
- Moonlight into Marzipan (1995)
- A Sin of Colour (1999)
- So Good in Black (2009)
References
- ^ a b "Sunetra Gupta". The Life Scientific. 25 September 2012. BBC Radio 4. Retrieved 18 January 2014.
- ^ a b "Gupta, Prof. Sunetra". Who's Who. A & C Black. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
- ^ "ABOUT US". Collateral Global. Retrieved 6 July 2022.
- ^ "Weekend Birthdays", The Guardian, p. 51, 15 March 2014
- EThOS uk.bl.ethos.309107.
- ^ "Professor Sunetra Gupta: Supernumerary Fellow". College Life & People. Merton College, Oxford. Retrieved 7 October 2020.
- ^ Princeton University Press, European Advisory Board Archived 2011-06-08 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ "Covid-19 and the new merchants of doubt". The BMJ. 13 September 2021. Retrieved 21 April 2022.
- ^ "New boost to universal flu vaccine development". Department of Biology, University of Oxford. Retrieved 17 August 2022.
- ^ "ZSL Scientific Medal Winners" (PDF). Zoological Society of London. Retrieved 11 October 2020.
- ^ "Surviving pandemics: a pathogen's perspective". Royal Society. Retrieved 11 October 2020.
- ^ "Indian woman scientist's portrait to be exhibited in Britain". The Times of India. Archived from the original on 25 July 2013. Retrieved 1 September 2013.
- ^ Cookson, Clive (24 March 2020). "Coronavirus may have infected half of UK population — Oxford study". Financial Times. London. Retrieved 11 January 2022.
- S2CID 214681140. Retrieved 11 January 2022.
- ^ "Professor Sunetra Gupta: the epidemic is on its way out". YouTube. 21 May 2020. Retrieved 14 October 2020.
- ^ Sayers, Freddie (21 May 2020). "Sunetra Gupta: Covid-19 is on the way out". UnHerd. London. Retrieved 11 January 2022.
- ^ Lawson, Dominic (27 October 2023). "Lockdown didn't need this dodgy dossier". Retrieved 27 October 2023.
- PMID 32240634.
- S2CID 214729715. Retrieved 16 October 2020.
- S2CID 256822077. Retrieved 15 October 2020.
- ^ "Estimating the infection fatality ratio in England". CEBM. 21 August 2020. Retrieved 15 October 2020.
- ^ a b Swinford, Steven (7 October 2020). "Lift coronavirus curbs and go for herd immunity, urges coalition of scientists". The Times.
- ^ a b Sample, Ian (6 October 2020). "Scientists call for Covid herd immunity strategy for young". The Guardian.
- ^ D'Ambrosio, Amanda (19 October 2020). "Who Are the Scientists Behind the Great Barrington Declaration?". www.medpagetoday.com. Retrieved 22 January 2021.
- ^ Staff and agencies in Geneva (12 October 2020). "WHO chief says herd immunity approach to pandemic 'unethical'". The Guardian. Retrieved 12 October 2020.
- ^ "WHO Director-General's opening remarks at the media briefing on COVID-19 – 12 October 2020". World Health Organization. 12 October 2020. Retrieved 12 October 2020.
- ^ Zilbermints, Regina (15 October 2020). "Dozens of public health groups, experts blast 'herd immunity' strategy backed by White House". TheHill. Retrieved 14 January 2021.
- ^ D'Ambrosio, Amanda (11 November 2021). "New Institute Has Ties to the Great Barrington Declaration". MedPage Today. Retrieved 27 November 2021.
- ^ "biography". Sunetra Gupta. Retrieved 1 September 2013.
- ^ "Orange Prize longlist announced". The Guardian. 20 March 2000.
- ^ Loder, Natasha (22 June 2000). "Oxford scientist wins the battle for her reputation". Telegraph. Retrieved 25 January 2016.
- ^ "Corrections and clarifications". The Guardian. 8 June 2020. Retrieved 21 October 2020.
An interview with Prof Sunetra Gupta said she was married to Adrian Hill, the director of Oxford's Jenner Institute. This is no longer the case
- ^ Fishwick, Samuel (13 October 2020). "'I've had emails calling me evil'... Meet the Covid scientists at war". Evening Standard. Retrieved 17 October 2020.
External links
- Profile on the Website of the Oxford Department of Zoology
- Sunetra Gupta at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
- Sunetra Gupta at AcademiaNet