Soumitra Ghosh

About Soumitra Ghosh

A thought leader with commitment to deliver sustainable health outcomes at scale, founded on strong conceptual frameworks, and operational excellence, through agile, multi-disciplinary, cross-cultural, hi-performing teamwork. 20+ country experience of managing large scale public health programs across South Asia, Southeast Asia, and Anglophone Africa. 25 years in leadership positions handling health system strengthening, market system strengthening, private sector engagement covering a variety of health areas including HIV/AIDS, Family Planning, Reproductive, Maternal, Newborn, and Child Health, Nutrition, WASH, Tuberculosis, Non Communicable Diseases and Primary Healthcare in complex, fragile, and conflict environments. A champion of public-private engagement, market-based partnerships, and health market development with effective use of health financing, digital health solutions and social marketing, social franchising.\"Go-to\" person for evidence-based, client-centered, innovation-led, inclusive, gender-compliant strategies targeting remote, underserved, poor, vulnerable population groups in rural and urban areas. Proven ability to build, coach and mentor large, cross-cultural cultural, hi-performing clinical and non clinical, technical and operational teams. Vast experience of policy, advocacy, donor and government relations, contractual and financial compliances and governance for a variety of global donors.

Experience

1. Chief of Party Usaid Local Health System Sustainability (Lhss)

   Abt Global

   Oct 2022 — Present · AF

   Project leader

Education

• Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta

  PGDBM, Marketing

  1982 — 1984

• Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani

  Master of Arts (MA), Economics

  1976 — 1981

• Hindu School

  Higher Secondary, Science