Purnima Mane

Purnima Mane is an Indian author and sexual and reproductive health expert who held many senior leadership roles in United Nations and global health roles. She serves on the board of governors of the International Development Research Centre and is the founding editor of Culture, Health and Sexuality academic journal.

Education Mane has a bachelor's degree in psychology from St. Xavier’s College, Mumbai and a master of arts, a MPhil, and a PhD from the Tata Institute of Social Sciences.

She was awarded a postdoctoral Fulbright Fellowship to study women and HIV at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health,

Career Mane has worked in academia as an associate professor at the Tata Institute and as a visiting professorial fellow at the University of New South Wales, teaching at its Centre for Social Research in Health.

She served on the boards of director of the International AIDS Vaccine Initiative and the MTV Staying Alive Foundation.

She serves on the board of governors of the International Development Research Centre.

Books Co-editor of Sex, Drugs and Young People: International Perspectives (Sexuality, Culture and Health), published by Routledge in 2015, Author of Aids Prevention, The Socio Cultural Context in India, published by Tata Institute of Social Sciences in 1992,

Personal life Mane lives in San Mateo, California.