About the presenter
Aarathi Prasad is a broadcaster and researcher. She is the author of ‘In the Bonesetter’s Waiting Room: Travels Through Indian Medicine’ (Profile, 2016) which was a BBC Radio 4 Book of the Week and won the Popular Medicine Award at the BMA Awards 2017; and ‘Like A Virgin: How Science is Redesigning the Rules of Sex’ (Oneworld, 2012), shortlisted for the Salon Prize and translated into Italian, Bulgarian and Dutch.
Born in London to an Indian mother who wore only silk saris and a Caribbean father who loved the natural world, Aarathi was educated in the West Indies and the UK. After completing a PhD in molecular genetics from Imperial College London, she later trained in bioarchaeology. She works as a Senior Research Fellow at the UCL Institute for Global Health, focusing on sustainability and urban health in Kenya, and as part of an international team excavating and analysing ancient DNA from funerary sites in Spain, Rome, and Pompeii.
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