Dr. Raj Shankar Ghosh

Dr Raj Shankar Ghosh is a physician with training from national and international academic institutions in public health policies, planning and program delivery. Over the past 30 years Dr Ghosh has been involved in wide range of public health activities from planning and implementation of public health programs at grassroot level to advocating for effective policy decisions at National and regional levels on infectious diseases, vaccines, and health systems. 

Dr Ghosh’s professional journey started from an NGO in deep deserts of India. Thereafter he served as a Medical Officer at a Primary Health Centre in West Bengal State Health Services. Later he served as Regional Coordinator, Southeast Region of WHO’s National Polio Surveillance Project in India. He was Director, Immunizations in PATH India. In PATH, he was also the Director for the Japanese Encephalitis Project that served 13 counties in the Western Pacific Region and Southeast Region. Following his tenure in PATH, Dr Ghosh was Vice President and Regional Director, South Asia at the non-profit drug development company, institute for OneWorld Health. From 2013 to 2022, Dr. Ghosh was Deputy Director, Vaccine Delivery and Infectious diseases in the India office of Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.

Currently Dr Ghosh advises multiple organizations on various streams of public health including environmental and climate health, Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR), One Health and immunization. Dr Ghosh is a Senior Advisor, Environmental Health at the Public Health Foundation of India.

Dr Ghosh is the founding member of the Quality, Equity and Inclusiveness in Public Health initiative at the Department of Management Studies, Indian Institute of Technology in New Delhi.

In 2013 the Indian Public Health Association conferred Honorary Fellowship to Dr Ghosh for his contribution to public health in India and South Asian Region.