Dr Sunetra Gupta is a professor at Oxford University, an epidemiologist with expertise in immunology, vaccine development, and mathematical modelling of infectious diseases.

She is also an acclaimed writer, with her novels: Memories of Rain (1992), The Glassblower’s Breath (1993), Moonlight into Marzipan (1995), A Sin of Colour (1999), So Good in Black (2009) and Pandemics: Our Fears and the FactsPandemics: Our Fears and the Facts (2013).