Geeta Rao Gupta

Biographic Data

ID3693586
NAMEGeeta Rao Gupta
GIVEN NAMESGeeta Rao
FAMILY NAMEGupta
SIGNATUREGUPTA G R
AFFILIATIONSInternational Center for Research on Women
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS19
TOTAL CITATIONS91
AUTHOR COUNT19
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1993
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2026
H-INDEX3

  • United States Ambassador-at-Large for Global Women’s Issues

    Open AccessGeeta Rao Gupta, GR Gupta et al.ARTICLEPolitics & Gender2026

    The United States Ambassador-at-Large for Global Women’s Issues led the Secretary’s Office of Global Women’s Issues at the U.S. Department of State. The position was created in 2009 when Hillary Clinton served as U.S. Secretary of State during the administration of Barack Obama. Ambassador Geeta Rao Gupta (GRG) was the fourth Ambassador-at-Large and the first woman of color to hold the position. In 2025, the Ambassadorship and Secretary’s Office …

  • Themes of Guilt and Redemption in T. S. Eliot’s The Family Reunion

    Open AccessGeeta Rao Gupta, Geeta GuptaARTICLEInternational Journal of English…2025

    T. S. Eliot’s The Family Reunion, a modern verse play, immersed in spiritual symbolism and psychological drama, stands among his most complex explorations of the human condition. Written in 1939, the drama is a meditation on guilt, redemption, religious alienation, and the struggle for spiritual meaning in a world increasingly fragmented by social, technological, and material change. The return of Harry to Wishwood, his ancestral home, sets the s…

  • Beyond gender mainstreaming

    Open AccessGeeta Rao Gupta, Caren Grown et al.ARTICLEJournal of International…2023

    The United Nations and major humanitarian organizations have made policy commitments to promote gender equality and empower women and girls. This study assesses the extent to which humanitarian responses have met these commitments based on reviews of gender mainstreaming, textual analysis of policy and program cycle documents, and interviews with humanitarian actors. The analysis reveals that while gender mainstreaming may raise awareness and mak…

  • Gender equality and global health

    Open AccessBen Cislaghi, Anna Margaret Weber et al.ARTICLEJournal of Global Health2020

    BACKGROUND: Women's and men's health outcomes are different. Some differences are biological, related to male and female sex, while others are related to their gender. Sex- and gender-related issues require different solutions, but policy makers lack straightforward heuristic strategies to identify gender-related health inequities. METHODS: Using 169 causes of disability-adjusted life years (DALYs) from the 2017 Global Burden of Disease, we calcu…

  • Disrupting gender norms in health systems

    Open AccessKatherine Hay, Lotus Mcdougal et al.ARTICLEThe Lancet2019

  • Gender norms and health

    Open AccessAnna Margaret Weber, Ann M Weber et al.ARTICLEThe Lancet2019

  • Gender equality and gender norms

    Open AccessGeeta Rao Gupta, Nandini Oomman et al.ARTICLEThe Lancet2019

  • Gender inequality and restrictive gender norms

    Open AccessLori Heise, Margaret E Greene et al.ARTICLEThe Lancet2019

  • Improving health with programmatic, legal, and policy approaches to reduce gender inequality and change restrictive gender norms

    Open AccessJody Heymann, Jessica K Levy et al.ARTICLEThe Lancet2019

  • The Global strategy for women’s, children’s and adolescents’ health (2016–2030)

    Open AccessShyama Kuruvilla, Flavia Bustreo et al.ARTICLEBulletin of the World Health…2016

    Box 1 The Global strategy for women's, children's and adolescents' health (2016-2030) Objectives of the global strategy: * Survive: end preventable mortality; * Thrive: promote health and well-being; and * Transform: expand enabling environments. Five drivers of change to achieve the objectives based on the global strategy action areas: * People: individual potential and community engagement; * Political effectiveness: country leadership, financi…

  • Looking back, moving forward

    Open AccessJessica Ogden, Geeta Rao Gupta et al.ARTICLEGlobal Public Health2011

  • Structural approaches to HIV prevention

    Open AccessGeeta Rao Gupta, Justin O Parkhurst et al.ARTICLEThe Lancet2008

  • The intruder

    Geeta Rao GuptaARTICLEReproductive Health Matters2008

  • Globalization, women and the HIV/Aids epidemic

    Open AccessGeeta Rao GuptaARTICLEPeace Review2004Cited by: 7References: 1

    Additional informationNotes on contributorsGeeta Rao Gupta Geeta Rao Gupta is president of the International Center for Research on Women, a Washington‐based organization that undertakes policy‐oriented research, technical assistance, and advocacy focused on women's economic roles, health and nutrition, the environment and natural resources, adolescent sexual health and women's rights. She holds a Ph.D. in social psychology and is an internationa…

  • How men's power over women fuels the HIV epidemic

    Open AccessGeeta Rao GuptaARTICLEBMJ2002

    In sub-Saharan Africa 12-13 women are infected by HIV for every 10 men, and the average rate of infection for teenage girls in some countries is five times higher than that for teenage boys.1 Most of these infections occur through unprotected heterosexual interactions. Women are limited in their ability to control these interactions because of their low economic and social status and because of the power that men have over women's sexuality. Most…

  • Til Technology Do Us Part

    Geeta Rao GuptaARTICLEForeign Policy2001

  • Strengthening Alliances for Sexual Health and Rights

    Open AccessGeeta Rao Gupta, GR GuptaARTICLEHealth and Human Rights1997Cited by: 3

  • Female-Headed Households and Female-Maintained Families

    Mayra Buvinic, Geeta Rao GuptaARTICLEEconomic Development and Cultural…1997Cited by: 39

  • Women's lives and sex

    Open AccessGeeta Rao Gupta, Ellen Wei et al.ARTICLECulture Medicine and Psychiatry1993Cited by: 42References: 3