Trained as a physician in India, she also earned her PhD in Epidemiology from University of California Berkeley in 2007. Prior to that, she was a Fogarty fellow at Brown University studying HIV epidemiology in women. She is the co-founder and director of Public Health Research Institute of India located in Mysore. Her interests include the health of women in disadvantaged communities across their lifespan, she is a prolific researcher and an advocate for women in the developing world. Karl Krupp