Sujata Srinivasan
Senior Producer / Where We LiveSujata Srinivasan is a Senior Producer for Where We Live, the flagship news-based, call-in talk show from Connecticut Public Radio, featuring deep dives at the intersection of data-driven narrative and investigative long-form journalism. She's also an editor for the Connecticut Public newsroom.
An award-winning journalist with over 20 plus years of reporting and editorial experience for print, online, television, and radio outlets in the U.S. and abroad – including four years as Business Reporter for Connecticut Public Radio – Sujata specializes in Business and Health, and is passionate about economic and health inequity, corporate accountability, sustainability, innovation culture, workplace gender equity, the economics and ethics of consumption, policy impact on industry, and the human condition.
She was previously an independent U.S. correspondent for the Indian edition of Forbes, editor of Connecticut Business Magazine, Connecticut correspondent for Crain’s Business, longtime independent contributor to the Hartford Courant and Hartford Business Journal, contributing editor to the Connecticut Economic Resource Center, senior financial editor supporting the Chicago investment firm Thomas White International, and instructor of economics at Saint Joseph University, among others. She continues to report independently for the women-founded nonprofit Connecticut Health Investigative Team.
Prior to that, Sujata was the interim bureau chief of CNBC-TV 18 in Chennai, India, tasked with expanding her bureau and set to be promoted to Bureau Chief, when she chose to follow her heart and get married to her husband, and relocate to the U.S. to be with him. She is the mother of a child made of sunshine, curiosity, mischief, and love. She also mothers her rescue dog Panju Muttai (Cotton Candy), who is made of stubbornness, tail power, and love.
Sujata has a Master’s in Economics from Trinity College, Hartford; a Post Graduate Diploma (Hons) from the Times School of Journalism, New Delhi; and a Bachelor’s in Business from the University of Madras, Chennai.
Got an idea for a show? Email her at ssrinivasan@ctpublic.org
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The Connecticut Insurance Department is seeking public opinion on proposed rate increases by several health insurers.
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New research from multiple studies – yet to be published – highlighted at the Alzheimer’s Association International Conference in San Diego, in August, shows risk factors leading to cognitive decline. -
Long-COVID-19 patients are offering up their blood and saliva to Yale researchers to help find a link between their demographic patterns and any changes to their body since contracting the virus.
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This hour on Where We Live, we look into factors driving the primary care physician shortage, and what’s being done about it. The Association of American Medical Colleges projects a shortfall of upto 48,000 primary care physicians by 2034.
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Unlike with COVID-19, there’s not much the general public can do about monkeybox.
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This hour on Where We Live, we take a deep dive into new research, treatment gaps, disparities, and myths about menopause
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South Asians have the highest death rate from heart disease in the U.S. compared to other ethnic groups. The MASALA study wants to find out why, and how to prevent and treat it.
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Even though the much-beleaguered health care sector added 600 jobs in June, several thousand job gains are needed to catch up to pre-pandemic levels.
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Host Lucy Nalpathanchil looks at the impact of the U.S. Supreme Court's decision to overturn Roe v. Wade. From the doctor’s office to our personal data online, find all of our 'Where We Live' coverage on the issues and effects of a post-Roe world here.
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A lack of funding, hospital consolidations, attrition rates and declining reimbursements are affecting EMS services statewide.
