T. Sundararaman is Professor and Dean of the School of Health Systems Studies at the Tata Institute of Social Sciences, India, as well as adjunct faculty at the School of Public Health in Jawaharlal Institute of Postgraduate Medical Education & Research, India. He is also a former director, and current member of the global steering council, of the Peoples Health Movement. He has over two decades of practitioner experience and has helped design and implement multiple state- and national-level health systems initiatives, including India’s National Rural Health Mission.