Siddharth Dube is a non-fiction writer and specialist commentator on poverty, public health, and development.

His books include An Indefinite Sentence: A personal history of outlawed love and sex; In the Land of Poverty: Memoirs of an Impoverished Indian Family, 1947-1997; Sex, Lies and AIDS; and the central essay to photographer Sebastião Salgado's The End of Polio. In 2022, Viking Penguin India will publish In the Land of Poverty: A Century in the Life of a Family, a Village and a Nation.

Dube was born in Calcutta in 1961. He studied at Tufts University, the University of Minnesota's School of Journalism, and the Harvard School of Public Health, where he completed his MSc in 1991. He has since been scholar-in-residence at Yale University's Center for Interdisciplinary Research on AIDS, senior fellow at the World Policy Institute in New York City, and a long-term visiting fellow at the Centre for the Study of Developing Societies, Delhi. He is on the faculty of Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health and a contributing editor to The Caravan.