Dr Soumyadeep Bhaumik

Dr. Soumyadeep Bhaumik is a medical doctor and international public health specialist with more than a decade of experience in public health research. He currently leads the Meta-research and Evidence Synthesis Unit at The George Institute for Global Health, where he oversees a diverse portfolio of work which shapes guidelines, policies, and practice at various levels. He is internationally recognised for using and innovating on using fit-for-purpose approaches around evidence synthesis and its applications (clinical practice guidelines, core outcome sets, research priority setting). As a methodologist he works in a disease-agnostic manner, but his recent work has had a focus on snakebite and drowning. He is also involved in health policy and systems research and is interested in ensuring and equity in the health knowledge ecosystem. Dr. Bhaumik's work has significantly influenced multiple WHO guidelines, national and sub-national policies, and has been featured in influential media outlets, sparking public discourse on critical health issues

Dr. Bhaumik studied medicine at Bankura Sammilani Medical College, India, master's in international public health from the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, UK and PhD from UNSW Sydney. Before joining The George Institute, he worked as a researcher at Public Health Foundation of India, Biomedical Genomics Centre and Cochrane South Asia, and as an emergency physician at Columbia Asia Hospitals.

Fields of expertise:

• Evidence synthesis and knowledge translation
• Health policy analysis
• Snakebite
• Public health methodologies
• Program evaluation