Dr Ranjana Srivastava is a practising Australian oncologist, award-winning author and Fulbright scholar. Educated in India, the UK, the United States and Australia, she is the recipient of the Monash University Distinguished Alumnus of the Year Award, the JFK Merit Award from the Harvard Kennedy School and the Medal of the Order of Australia for her contribution to doctor-patient communication. Ranjana’s writing has been published worldwide, including in Time magazine and The Week, and in prominent medical journals such as the New England Journal of Medicine, the Lancet and JAMA. Her columns in the Guardian on the intersection of medicine and humanity have been twice nominated as a finalist for the Walkley Awards for Excellence in Journalism. In 2024, Beehive News named her the top international health columnist out of a field of 15,000 journalists. Her acclaimed non-fiction books include Tell Me the Truth (shortlisted, NSW Premier’s Literary Awards), Dying For a Chat (winner, the Human Rights Literature Prize) and What It Takes to Be a Doctor (finalist, The Australian Career Book Award).
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