Indian epidemiologist, author, and academic

Sunetra Gupta

Sunetra Gupta is an Indian-born British infectious disease epidemiologist and a professor of theoretical epidemiology at the Department of Zoology, University of Oxford. She has performed research on the transmission dynamics of various infectious diseases, including malaria, influenza and COVID-19, and has received the Scientific Medal of the Zoological Society of London and the Rosalind Franklin Award of the Royal Society. She is a member of the scientific advisory board of Collateral Global, an organisation which examines the global impact of COVID-19 restrictions.

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1965

March 15

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1965 Born

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What else happened on this day, through history

-474 Roman consul Aulus Manlius Vulso celebrates an ovation for concluding the war against Veii and securing a forty years' truce.
-200 The Roman Republic under its new consuls Publius Sulpicius Galba and Gaius Aurelius Cotta declares war on Philip V of Macedon, starting the Second Macedonian War.
-44 The assassination of Julius Caesar, the dictator of the Roman Republic, by a group of senators takes place on the Ides of March.
351 Constantius Gallus is elevated as Caesar and then sent to Antioch to govern the Roman East.

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The world in 1965

When Sunetra arrived

april 11 The Palm Sunday tornado outbreak of 1965: Fifty-five tornadoes hit in six Midwestern states of the United States, killing 266 people.
april 21 The 1964–1965 New York World's Fair opens for its second and final season.
april 24 Civil war breaks out in the Dominican Republic when Colonel Francisco Caamaño overthrows the triumvirate that had been in power since the coup d'état against Juan Bosch.
april 28 United States occupation of the Dominican Republic: American troops land in the Dominican Republic to "forestall establishment of a Communist dictatorship" and to evacuate US Army troops.

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Benjamin R. Jacobs 1879–1963 American biochemist (born 1879) Bob Wilber 1928– American clarinetist and saxophonist (died 2019) Emil von Behring 1854–1917 German physiologist and physician, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1917) Eva Longoria 1975– American actress Frances Conroy 1953– American actress Harold Baines 1959– American baseball player Harry James 1916–1983 American trumpet player and actor (born 1916) Jai Courtney 1986– Australian actor Jannik Hansen 1986– Danish ice hockey player

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Dmitry Medvedev 1965– Russia businessperson 2 Cold Scorpio 1965– American wrestler Andrew Stanton 1965– American voice actor, director, producer, screenwriter Annie Duke 1965– American poker player and author Aravinda de Silva 1965– Sri Lankan cricketer Claude Lemieux 1965– Canadian ice hockey player Craig Biggio 1965– American baseball player and coach David Miliband 1965– English politician, Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs Dennis Lehane 1965– American author, screenwriter, and producer

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