Nobhojit Roy

Nobhojit Roy trained as a ​General and Trauma ​surgeon in Mumbai, India and the U.K. He also holds a MPH from John Hopkins University, Baltimore, MA, USA and a PhD ​from​ the Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden on surgical outcomes and health systems in resource-poor settings. He was Professor and Chief of surgery providing universal healthcare to 100,000 people in suburban Mumbai. His department is the designated WHO Collaborating centre for research in Surgical care delivery in the LMICs (SEARO region). Thereafter, ​he was the National Advisor, Public Health Planning and Evidence at the think-tank of the Indian Ministry of Health & Family Welfare (MoHFW) called the National Health systems Resource centre (NHSRC). Currently, he is the Director of Health Systems Strengthening team at CARE-India (funded by BMGF), which is the Technical support and resource unit to the Health department of the Govt of Bihar, a state of 110 million people in India. He has been one of the Lancet commissioners for Global Surgery (2013-2015) representing South East Asia Region (www.lancetglobalsurgery.org) and currently, is a Lancet commissioner for NCD and Injuries in the poorest billion (www.ncdipoverty.org).