Nobhojit Roy trained as a General and Trauma surgeon in Mumbai, India and the U.K. He also cross-trained with a Masters in Public Health from John Hopkins University, Baltimore, USA and a PhD from the Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden, with a focus on Surgical care outcomes and delivering healthcare in resource-poor settings. Currently, he is the Technical Officer (Operative Care), Clinical Services & Systems unit, Integrated Health Services department at WHO Headquarters, Geneva. On the health policy front, Roy has been the National Advisor, Public Health Planning and Evidence at NHSRC – Ministry of Health & Family Welfare (MoHFW); Director, Health Systems Strengthening and Knowledge partnerships at CARE-India, Bihar and was the Southeast Asia Health Hub lead at Oxford Policy Management. His academic, clinical and research career for two decades, was as the Professor & Chief of Surgical services at the Bhabha Atomic Research Centre (BARC) Hospital, HBNI University, Mumbai, an Universal Health Care scheme.
He has been the Lancet commissioner for Global Surgery and for NCDs and Injuries in the poorest billion (www.ncdipoverty.org). He teaches Surgery & Global Health at universities in India & overseas and is supervising PhD students in Health systems, Health Technology assessment and Global Surgery.
