SIDDHARTH DUBE
Senior Fellow
 

Expertise  poverty, public health, development, AIDS, gay rights, sex work, the UN, land reform, India

Experience  Siddharth Dube is a non-fiction writer and specialist commentator on poverty, public health, and development.

His books include In the Land of Poverty: Memoirs of an Impoverished Indian Family, 1947-1997; Sex, Lies and AIDS; and the central essay to photographer Sebastião Salgado's The End of Polio. He is currently working on a historical account of AIDS in India, to be published in 2009.

Dube was born in Calcutta in 1961. He studied at Tufts University, the University of Minnesota's School of Journalism, and the Harvard School of Public Health, where he completed his MSc in 1991. He has since been scholar-in-residence at Yale University's Center for Interdisciplinary Research on AIDS, and a long-term visiting fellow at the Centre for the Study of Developing Societies, Delhi. Currently, he is a senior fellow at the World Policy Institute, and a convening member of the advisory board of FXB India Suraksha, a non-profit working with children affected by HIV.

Siddharth Dube has worked and consulted for the World Bank, UNICEF, WHO and other international organizations, most recently as senior adviser to the Executive Director of UNAIDS, the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS. He has been awarded research grants by the Ford Foundation and the US Institute of Peace.
 

In 2006, Siddharth Dube, the writer Vikram Seth and the historian Saleem Kidwai initiated a campaign by eminent Indians to decriminalize same-sex relations. In 2003, he helped organize the first-ever conference on the UN system's responsibilities for protecting the rights of sexual minorities.

Honors & Affiliations 
 

Education 

B.A., Tufts University

Masters of Journalism, University of Minnesota

Masters of Science, Harvard School of Public Health

Contact siddharth@siddharthdube.com

Website: siddharthdube.com
 

BOOKS

In the Land of Poverty: The Memoirs of an Indian Family, 1947-1997

By Senior Fellow Siddharth Dube

HarperCollins India, 1998

Sex, Lies, and AIDS

By Senior Fellow Siddharth Dube

HarperCollins India, 2000

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

A list of Siddharth Dube's work can be viewed at siddharthdube.com/articles.

More on Siddharth Dube on his website siddharthdube.com.

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 “A Chance to Fix the Fight Against AIDS,” The Guardian, August 3, 2008.

"The poor little VVIP constituencies," Indian Express, March 20 2008.

"Incredible India: the dark reality," with Mohan Guruswamy, International Herald Tribune, February 10 2008.

"Bringing UNAids to book," The Guardian, December 17 2007.
 

MEDIA & APPEARANCES

The Global Challenge of HIV/AIDS - Presented to the US Congressional Human Rights Caucus a critical analysis of the emerging threats from the spread of HIV/AIDS in China, India and Russia and an update on the African pandemic.

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