Sutapa Agrawal is a senior research scientist and associate professor in epidemiology at the Public Health Foundation of India, New Delhi, India. She has worked on several successful interdisciplinary research projects and lead a large-scale secondary data analysis initiative program on non-communicable disease (NCD) epidemiology and risk factors in India and other low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) with a wide range of national and international partners and collaborators. In addition to her research work, she occasionally teaches epidemiology, research methods, and large scale data analysis techniques using statistical software such as SPSS and STATA to post-graduate students and other researchers. She has also served as a consultant for quantitative research and health data analysis for UNESCO, WHO, JHBSPH, the World Bank and UNICEF. She has authored/co-authored many articles in international and national peer-reviewed journals as a lead author and acted as a peer reviewer for leading journals in the field of public health nutrition, environmental health, demography and gender issues. In recent years, she has been a co-recipient of several research grants from noted funding agencies, including USAID, ESRC, and the Wellcome Trust. Sutapa's research interests are non-communicable disease epidemiology, climate change and health, sustainable diets, nutritional epidemiology, women and child health, social determinants of health, and aging. She holds a Ph.D. in demography and has had training in geography, epidemiology, public health, and research methods.