Associate Professor and Chairperson of the Centre for Health Policy, Planning and Management, School of Health Systems Studies, Tata Institute of Social Sciences
Qualification: PhD in the area of health economics from IIPS, Mumbai and Postdoc from Department of Economics, Aarhus University, Denmark
Soumitra is trained in both economics and demography and has been working in the broad area of Health for the last 15 years (excluding PhD years).
Expert
His research is mainly in the broad area of health, poverty, and labour covering topics such as social health protection, under-nutrition, living conditions of tea garden workers, social determinants of diseases, health and nutritional status of tribal populations, inequality in health and health care, universal health care, and access to medicine.
He led and was part of the team comprising of faculties from LSE, ITM Antwerp and institutions from West Africa and India (TISS and IPH) which undertook a multi-country study on new health care financing arrangements in the LMIC.
Fields of expertise: Evidence for policy / knowledge valorization, Health and wellbeing, Social protection
