Dr. Ritu Sadana
Unit Head, Ageing and Health
World Health Organization
Worked to advance health equity since 1985 in public and private sectors in low, middle and high income countries. Relevant to older people, coordinated development of the first WHO Global Strategy on Ageing and Health including objective towards the Decade of Healthy Ageing; co-authored World Report on Ageing and Health; negotiated Global Strategy's accountability framework and ensured monitoring of national commitments; developed metrics and global monitoring of healthy ageing; developed research and evidence strategy reflecting policy makers and older people's views; lead author and editor of Decade of Healthy Ageing: baseline report. Trained in economics, epidemiology, demography and anthropology at Harvard University and University of California Los Angeles (UCLA).
