Biography
Dr. Srikanth Kondreddy is a global health policy researcher, advisor, decisionmaker and educator with a deep knowledge of the global health landscape—issues, initiatives, and actors. He is a mission-oriented (turning knowledge into action) with a strategic vision —advising the UN agencies, multilateral health organizations, federal health agencies, global health think tanks, and not-for-profit organizations.
He founded Health Attaché Inc., a health diplomacy consultancy based in Ottawa, Canada, and is also a founding member and director of research and policy at Urban Health360, a not-for-profit global applied research institute based in Maryland, USA. He is an Adjunct Professor at the School of Epidemiology and Public Health, University of Ottawa, and a Scientist at Bruyere Health Research Institute in Ottawa, Canada. He is also a Senior Fellow at the WHO Collaborating Centre for Knowledge Translation and Health Technology Assessment in Health Equity, Ottawa, Canada. Earlier, he worked for the World Health Organization, United Nations Office of Project Services, Stop TB Partnership, Global Affairs Canada (Global Health and Nutrition Bureau), Public Health Agency of Canada (Office of International Affairs for Health Portfolio), Indian Council of Medical Research, Public Health Foundation of India, and Population Council, among others.
He has research and teaching interests in global health policy, global health governance and global health diplomacy. His global health research program focuses on two pillars: 1) global health governance, and 2) global health diplomacy - built on multidisciplinary research partnerships and collaborations from India, Canada, Australia, Switzerland, the USA, the UK, the Caribbean region, several countries in Africa, and multilateral health agencies, including the WHO. Currently, researching the political economy of global health, international cooperation in health, global health governance frameworks, pandemic treaty, international health regulations compliance, and global health security, among other areas.
He is actively engaged in research-to-action networks to drive policy impact. He is a founding member of the Global One Health Network. This interdisciplinary research-to-action network intends to strengthen Canadian leadership in improving the global governance of infectious diseases and AMR. He is also a member of a working group on Global Health Security and Universal Health Coverage – a collaboration between Georgetown University and the University of Edinburgh that explores the interlinkages and divergences among Global Health Security, Universal Health Coverage, and Health Systems Strengthening. He is a frequent contributor to global health policy discussions and a member of various policy engagement networks, including the Think 20, a G20 policy engagement group.
He received over $5M in research grants as a principal investigator/co-investigator from the Canadian Institutes of Health Research, the Swiss Network for International Studies, the Worldwide Universities Network, the Global One Health Network, the Steinberg Foundation, the WHO, and the JN Tata Endowment. He published in high-impact journals such as The Lancet, Health Policy and Planning, Globalization and Health, BMJ Global Health, and Canadian Public Administration, among others. He published over 50 peer-reviewed scientific papers, policy briefs and reports. He is an Associate Editor for the Annals of Global Health, an Academic Editor for PLOS Global Public Health, and an editorial board member for the BMC Public Health Journals. He is also a peer reviewer for more than a dozen global health journals.
He received several awards and honors, including the prestigious "JN Tata Scholar" Award in 2014, the 'Hillman Award' from the Canadian Society for International Health in 2017, and other awards from the International AIDS Society, the Eastern Sociological Society, the J N Tata Endowment, the Indian Council of Medical Research, and the University Grants Commission.
He holds a PhD in Anthropology (health policy focus) from the University of Pune (National AIDS Research Institute), India, and a Post-Doctoral Fellowship in Global Health Governance from McGill University, Canada, and a Post-Doctoral Fellowship in Global Health Governance and Global Health Diplomacy from the Global Health Centre, the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, Geneva, Switzerland.
