Urvashi Prasad is a public health and policy professional, writer, and patient advocate. From 2016 to 2024, she served at the NITI Aayog, India’s apex policy institution. She is a senior fellow at Pahle India Foundation, editor-in-chief of the Global South Healthcare Journal, and a British Council Alumni UK Ambassador for SDG 10.
She is also executive director of ALK Positive India, India’s first oncogene-specific lung cancer support group; co-founder of the White Ribbon Project–India; and founding director of PAVANA, the Centre for Air Pollution and Environmental Health. Her work spans financial toxicity, access to modern therapies, air pollution, and young adult cancers. She also supports children in poverty, children with cancer, patients of tuberculosis, and street animals.
A genetics graduate of the University of Birmingham—which awarded her an honorary doctorate in 2026—she holds an MPhil in Bioscience Enterprise from Cambridge and an MSc in Public Health in Developing Countries from the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine. In 2025, she received the IASLC Patient Advocate Education Award and is a 2026 IASLC STARS Scholar.
Still Here is her first book. When she’s not working, she’s usually dancing, watching movies, or playing with her dog, Simba.