Faculty-Alumni Conversation with Anuradha Gupta G’07, Prof. Shana Gadarian and Prof. Shannon Monnat

Maxwell alumni and friends are invited to register for for our next alumni event, a virtual faculty/alumni Q&A with Maxwell alumna Anuradha Gupta ’07 C.A.S. (PA), Deputy CEO of Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance, on Tuesday, February 15.

Maxwell faculty members Shana Kushner Gadarian and Shannon Monnat will engage in conversation with Mrs. Gupta about her career path and her current work in global health policy, including leading Gavi’s global vaccine distribution initiatives.

Registration is requested at cc.syr.edu/maxwell-gavi-february-2022.

Closed captioning for this virtual event will be provided, and this program will be recorded for those who are unable to join on February 15. For other questions about this online event, please contact the Maxwell Alumni Office at maxalum@syr.edu.

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Program participants will include:

Anuradha Gupta ’07 C.A.S. (PA) is the Deputy Chief Executive Officer of Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance. Since joining Gavi in 2015, she has put equity and gender at the center of Gavi’s programmatic planning and to tailor support to countries within Gavi’s strategy. Prior to joining Gavi, Mrs. Gupta served as Mission Director of the National Health Mission of India, where she ran the largest public health program in the world. A passionate and influential advocate of women, young girls and children, she played a leading role in India’s efforts to eradicate polio transmission. Mrs. Gupta has contributed to numerous important global health initiatives, and in 2015 was named one of “300 Women Leaders in Global Health” by the Global Health Centre of the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies.

Shana Kushner Gadarian is the Merle Goldberg Fabian Professor of Excellence in Citizenship and Critical Thinking at the Maxwell School, and also serves as professor and chair of the department of political science. Her specialties include American politics, political psychology, political communication, public opinion, experimental methods. Professor Gadarian is the co-author of Anxious Politics: Democratic Citizenship in a Threatening World, awarded the 2016 Robert E. Lane Award for best book in political psychology by the American Political Science Association. Named a 2021 Carnegie Fellow, she co-authored the forthcoming book Pandemic Politics: The Deadly Toll of Polarization in the Age of COVID, which investigates the long-term impacts of politicization around pandemic policies.

Shannon Monnat is the Lerner Chair for Public Health Promotion and Lerner Center Director at the Maxwell School. She also serves as Associate Professor of Sociology; Research Affiliate in the Center for Policy Research, the Aging Studies Institute and the Center for Aging and Policy Studies; and Co-Director of Syracuse University’s Policy, Place and Population Health Lab. A rural sociologist, demographer, and population health scholar, Professor Monnat conducts research on demographic and geographic trends and differences in heath and mortality, with a specific interest in rural health and health disparities. She has published over 70 peer-reviewed academic journal articles, book chapters, research briefs and reports, and has presented her research to numerous public, academic and policy audiences.