Biography Of Soumya Swaminathan In Hindi & English

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Soumya Swaminathan is the daughter of “Indian Father of Green Revolution” M. S. Swaminathan and Indian educationalist Mina Swaminathan.
Soumya has two siblings, Madhura Swaminathan, a professor of economics at the Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata, and Nithya Swaminathan, a Senior Lecturer in “Gender Analysis” and Development at the University of East Anglia.
Swaminathan holds M.B.B.S. from Armed Forces Medical College and M.D. from All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, along with a Diplomate of National Board from National Board of Examinations.

She also held Post Doctoral Medical Fellowship in Pediatric Pulmonology at the Children’s Hospital Los Angeles, Keck School of Medicine at the University of Southern California.
Acclaimed for her research on Tuberculosis, she served as the director of the National Institute for Research in Tuberculosis, Chennai.
She served on several WHO and global advisory bodies and committees, including the WHO expert panel to review global strategy and co-chair of the Lancet Commission on TB.

She started a multi-disciplinary group of clinical, laboratory and behavioural scientists studying various aspects of TB and TB/HIV.
Most recently she is part of the TB Zero City Project which aims to create “Islands of elimination” working with local governments, institutions and grassroots associations

From 2009 to 2011, she served as the coordinator of the Unicef/UNDP/World Bank/WHO Special Programme for Research and Training in Tropical Diseases (TDR) in Geneva.
She has been serving as the Secretary of the Department of Health Research for the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, Government of India. She has over 250 peer-reviewed publications to her credit.

Soumya Swaminathan was one of the three deputy director-generals and the first Indian to hold the position at WHO
She will be now be the chief scientist heading the organisation’s new chief scientist division. Swaminathan will now be chief scientist in a newly created department in the WHO.

The Programmes pillar will support WHO’s work on universal health coverage and healthier populations.
The Emergencies pillar will be responsible for WHO’s critical health security responsibilities, both in responding to health crises and helping countries prepare for them.
The External Relations and Governance pillar will centralise and harmonise WHO’s work on resource mobilisation and communications.
The Business Operations pillar will ensure more professionalised delivery of key corporate functions such as budgeting, finance, human resources and supply chain,” WHO said in the statemen

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