Nobhojit Roy

M.D. M.P.H. P.hD.

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, USA and a PhD from the Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden with a focus on Health systems outcomes and delivering healthcare in resource-poor settings.

His academic, clinical and research career for two decades, was as the Professor & Chief of Surgical services at the BARC Hospital, HBNI University, Mumbai, an Universal Health Care scheme for 100,000 people.

Currently, he is the Lead of the Program in Global Surgery & Trauma at The George Institute of Global Health, India. Previously, at the global policy level, he was the Technical Officer for Surgery & Anaesthesia, Clinical Services & Systems unit, Integrated Health Services department at WHO Headquarters, Geneva. At the regional level, he was the Southeast Asia Health Hub lead at Oxford Policy Management (UK). At the National level, Roy has been the National Advisor, Public Health Planning and Evidence at NHSRC - Ministry of Health & Family Welfare (MoHFW) and at the state-level, the Director of Health Systems Strengthening and Knowledge partnerships at CARE-India, Bihar.

Internationally, he has been the Lancet commissioner for Global Surgery (2015) and for NCDs and Injuries in the poorest billion (2020). He teaches Global Surgery at multiple universities in India & overseas, besides supervising PhD students