Post-doc (Department of Economics, Aarhus University, Denmark)
PhD (IIPS, Mumbai)
M.P.S (IIPS, Mumbai)
M.A. in Economics (University of North Bengal, WB)
B.A. [Economics(H), Statistics, Mathematics] (Siliguri College)
Email: soumitra@tiss.edu, soumitraiips@gmail.com
Ph: 022-25525534 (O), 9137543811 (M)
He uses quantitative and mixed-methods approach to explore his research interests in the broader domain of Health. He is specifically interested in understanding the health challenges and health needs of the population (especially the vulnerable population groups such as poor, ethnic minorities, migrants), the specific issues faced by them in accessing health services as well as in studying health policies and programmes.
He has over 15 years (post PhD) of experience in carrying out policy-focused research at national and international academic institutions on some of the topics like access to health insurance programmes, issues related to health service delivery including user-charges, social determinants of diseases, inequality in health and health care, medical impoverishment, impact evaluation of health insurance programmes, economic costs of NCDs, universal health care, living conditions of tea garden workers, health and nutritional status of tribal populations, social exclusion, and new health financing arrangements and access to medicine.
He was awarded Yusuf Hamied Fellowship for 2022 at Center for Health Policy and Management, Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health. In 2015-16, he was awarded Erasmus Mundus Post Doctoral Fellowship at Department of Economics and Business Economics, Aarhus University, Denmark. Dr. Ghosh was a recipient of University of Hawaii fellowship for participating at the Seminar on Health Systems at East West Center, Hawaii, U.S.A during the summer of 2010, a Visiting Scholar at Center for Population and Development Studies, Harvard University in 2009. In 2003, he was awarded UGC-JRF for doctoral studies (2004-2008) and in 2003, Government of India Fellowship (2003-04) for pursuing MPS.
Dr. Ghosh received Best Poster Award by Social Science and Medicine (Elsevier) at Health Systems in Asia conference at National University of Singapore during December 13-16, 2013. His research has been published in public health, health policy and economics journals such as PLoS Medicine, British Medical Journal and Economic and Political Weekly.
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Current research project:
Principal Investigator for the ICSSR funded project entitled "Universal health care through coverage for all: The case of Maharashtra’s tax financed Ayushman Bharat-Pradhan Mantri Jan Arogya Yojana" from September 2023
Completed research projects:
Principal Investigator for the WHO sponsored project titled "Assessment of Economic Costs of Diet related NCDs", 2017-2018
Co-Principal Investigator for the USAID funded project titled "Strengthening Eco-systems for Sustainable and Inclusive Health Financing", 2015-2017
Co-Principal Investigator for the European Commission funded FP7 project titled 'Socially Inclusive Health Care Financing in West Africa and India', 2011-2014 (for details, see http://www.healthinc.eu/)
Co-Principal Investigator for the institute funded project titled “User-fee in health sector in Maharashtra” from 2009-11.
Summer Intern for the UNICEF Global Summer Internship Program 2005. Worked in a team comprising of students from India, USA and Japan for two and half months, doing impact assessment for UNICEF SSHE project in Bihar. Published a Case Study for UNICEF 'Knowledge Community on Children in India' Initiative.