Handbook on Covid-19 Pandemic and Older Persons: Narratives and Issues from India and Beyond

Mala Kapur Shankardass is nationally and internationally known sociologist, gerontologist, and health social scientist based in India. She retired end of March 2021 as Senior Faculty Member from Delhi University after 38 years of academic career but continues to deliver lectures across countries and states in India.

She is a researcher, writer and an activist. She has published many books on ageing issues and related fields with well established international publishers and over 100 articles in reputed journals, books, magazines and newspapers. She Consults with international and national organizations, including United Nations agencies, is part of advisory board of certain journals, reviewer with well-known publishing houses, member of different government committees and associated with few NGOs as Executive and Governing Body Member. She runs her own Voluntary organization as well and works on improving quality of life concerns as people age.

Mala Kapur Shankardass 是一位在印度享有國內外聲譽的社會學家、老年學家及健康社會科學家。她於2021年3月底從德里大學退休，結束了38年的學術生涯，但仍持續在各國及印度各州進行演講。

她是一位研究者、作家和活動家。她已與知名國際出版社出版了多本有關老齡化議題及相關領域的書籍，並在知名期刊、書籍、雜誌和報紙上發表了超過100篇文章。她與國際及國內組織合作，包括聯合國機構，並擔任某些期刊的諮詢委員會成員，與知名出版社擔任審稿人，還是不同政府委員會的成員，並以執行委員及理事會成員身份參與幾個非政府組織。她也經營自己的志願組織，致力於改善人們隨著年齡增長而面臨的生活品質問題。