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{{Short description|Indian biostatistician}}
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{{Infobox scientist
| name = Rajeshwari Sundaram
| image = Rajeshwari Sundaram.jpg
| caption = Sundaram in 2020
| fields = Survival analysis, reproductive health
| workplaces = [[University of North Carolina at Charlotte]]<br>[[Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development]]
| alma_mater = [[University of Calcutta]]<br>[[Indian Statistical Institute]]<br>[[Michigan State University]]
}}

'''Rajeshwari Sundaram''' is an Indian biostatistician specializing in [[survival analysis]] and [[reproductive health]] who works at the [[National Institutes of Health]] as a senior investigator in the [[Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development]].{{r|nih}} Topics in her research have included the effects of obesity on fertility,{{r|obese}} infant and early childhood [[screen time]],{{r|screen}} and the long-term persistence of [[postpartum depression]].{{r|depress}}

==Education and career==
Sundaram is a graduate of the [[University of Calcutta]], and has a master's degree from the [[Indian Statistical Institute]] and a Ph.D. in statistics from [[Michigan State University]].{{r|nih}} Her 1999 dissertation, ''Estimation in the Two-Sample Doubly Censored and Randomly Truncated Scale Models'', was supervised by Hira Koul.{{r|mg}}

She became an assistant professor at the [[University of North Carolina at Charlotte]] before moving to the National Institutes of Health in 2006,{{r|nih}} taking her present position in the Shriver Institute in 2014.{{r|griffith}}

She is the 2021 chair of the Risk Analysis Section of the [[American Statistical Association]].{{r|ras}}

==Recognition==
Sundaram was the 2020 winner of the Jeanne E. Griffith Mentoring Award of the Interagency Council on Statistical Policy, for her work with trainees at the National Institutes of Health.{{r|griffith}} She was also elected as a [[Fellow of the American Statistical Association]] in 2020, and is an elected member of the [[International Statistical Institute]].{{r|nih}}

==References==
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<ref name=depress>{{citation|url=https://www.nih.gov/news-events/nih-research-matters/postpartum-depression-may-last-years|title=Postpartum depression may last for years|date=November 10, 2020|work=NIH Research Matters|publisher=National Institutes of Health}}</ref>

<ref name=griffith>{{citation|url=https://magazine.amstat.org/blog/2020/08/01/2020-griffith-mentoring-award/|title=Rajeshwari Sundaram Honored with 2020 Jeanne E. Griffith Mentoring Award|date=August 1, 2020|journal=Amstat News|publisher=American Statistical Association|access-date=2021-05-09}}</ref>

<ref name=mg>{{mathgenealogy|id=47706}}</ref>

<ref name=nih>{{citation|url=https://irp.nih.gov/pi/rajeshwari-sundaram|title=Rajeshwari Sundaram, Ph.D., M.S., Senior Investigator|work=Intramural Research Program|publisher=National Institutes of Health}}</ref>

<ref name=obese>{{citation|url=https://consumer.healthday.com/vitamins-and-nutrition-information-27/obesity-health-news-505/obese-couples-may-take-longer-to-conceive-719351.html|title=Obese Couples May Take Longer to Conceive |date=February 3, 2017|work=HealthDay|first=Karen|last=Pallarito}}</ref>

<ref name=ras>{{citation|url=https://community.amstat.org/riskanalysissection/aboutus/officers/currentofficers|title=Current 2021 Section Officers|work=ASA Risk Analysis Section|publisher=American Statistical Association|access-date=2021-05-09}}</ref>

<ref name=screen>{{citation|url=https://www.news-medical.net/news/20191125/Screen-time-could-be-starting-in-infancy-says-NIH-study.aspx|title=Screen time could be starting in infancy, says NIH study|first=Liji|last=Thomas|date=November 25, 2019|work=News-Medical.Net}}</ref>

</references>

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