Patralekha Chatterjee is an award-winning writer and photographer with a special interest in global affairs and the interlinked issues of health, gender, technology, economy, environment and human rights Patralekha’s work straddles mainstream and specialist media, and consists of reportage, photo-essays, features, and opion pieces. Her stories and photographs of AIDS orphans in India were recently published in the book “Hopes Alive, Surviving AIDS and Despair” brought out by FXB India Suraksha, the India affiliate of FXB International, a Geneva-based NGO working for AIDS orphans and other children at risk around the world. The book was released by Nobel Laureate Professor Amartya Sen in Kolkata(February 25, 2009) and by Indian Vice President Hamid Ansari in Delhi (March 2, 2009). Patralekha has taught health journalism to post-graduate students at the AJK Mass Communication Research Centre, Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi. and conducted workshop on 'Reporting Science, Health and Environment in a Globalising World' for visiting African journalists.

Patralekha was the only South Asian to be selected for The Journalistes in Europe Programme (1989 –’90) . She reported from Western Europe and the new democracies in Eastern Europe during this period. She is also a Fellow of The Salzburg Seminar ( Session 378, The Entrepreneurial City, 13 June – 20 June 2000).
Between 2008 and June 2009, she won three international media awards linked to public health. In 2008, she won the Media 21 Global Journalism Fellowship from Info-Sud ( a Swiss NGO) which led to a field trip to Haiti to report on 'access to health' in that conflict-scarred Caribbean island and was also one of the 8 journalists to win an award from the World Federation of Science Journalists to attend the Eco Health 2008 conference at Merida, Mexico..In 2009, she won a press fellowship from the US-headquartered National Press Foundation to participate in a Journalist to Journalist training programme on HIV and AIDS in July in Cape Town and to attend the annual International AIDS Society conference i(IAS 2009) in that city.

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