Dr Sunita Reddy, is an Associate Professor at the Centre of Social Medicine and Community Health, Jawaharlal Nehru University. She has twenty two years of teaching and research experience. She has a background of Medical Anthropology and Research in the areas of disasters, mother-child health, gender violence, child rights, tribal health, indigenous medicine, migrant workers, medical tourism and surrogacy. She has published widely, having eight books and numerous articles/papers in peer-reviewed journals and newspapers. She is on Editorial Boards of many journals and has been reviewing manuscripts for Springer and Sage. She is the Founder-Chair of ‘Anthropos India Foundation’ (AIF), a Trust, involved in action-based research among other things. AIF has signed a book series with Springer entitled ‘People, Societies and Cultures: Exploring and Documenting Diversities’. Dr Reddy was also a Core Member during the setting up of the Special Centre for Disaster Studies (SCDR) at JNU. She has participated in debates on surrogacy on many national TV channels. She has been awarded the ‘Women Empowerment Award- 2021’ on the International Women’s day by DELSA and Bhagidari Jan Sahyog Samiti. She has also received an award as an ‘Eminent Anthropologist’ at the World Anthropological Congress held at Bhubaneshwar in August 2023.