Dr. Venkatesan Chakrapani, MD, PhD, is Chairperson of Centre for Sexuality and Health Research and Policy (C-SHaRP: www.c-sharp.in), Chennai; and DBT/Wellcome Trust India Alliance Senior Fellow, The Humsafar Trust, Mumbai. He has been conducting applied and policy-oriented health research among sexual/gender minorities in India for nearly two decades. (see: https://www.indiaalliance.org/fellow/venkatesan-chakrapani-md-phd; and ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9998-9135)