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Soumya Swaminathan

1959 - Today

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Soumya Swaminathan (born 2 May 1959) is an Indian paediatrician and clinical scientist known for her research on tuberculosis and HIV. Swaminathan served as Secretary to the Government of India for Health Research and Director General of the Indian Council of Medical Research (2015–2017), where she prioritized evidence-based health policy, research capacity building in medical schools, and strengthening south-south partnerships in health sciences. From October 2017 to March 2019, she was the deputy director general of programmes (DDP) at the World Health Organization. Subsequently till 2022, she served as the chief scientist at the World Health Organization under the leadership of Director General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Soumya Swaminathan is the 498th most popular physician (up from 712th in 2019), the 511th most popular biography from India (up from 1,201st in 2019) and the 4th most popular Indian Physician.

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Among PHYSICIANS

Among physicians, Soumya Swaminathan ranks 498 out of 726. Before her are Łucja Frey, Hulusi Behçet, Edith Farkas, William Hunter, Friedrich Daniel von Recklinghausen, and William Stewart Halsted. After her are Eugène Olivier, Constantin von Economo, Kurt Blome, Oskar Minkowski, Wu Lien-teh, and Russell M. Nelson.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1959, Soumya Swaminathan ranks 194. Before her are Erhard Loretan, Susana Martinez, David Koresh, Lawrence Stroll, Ralf Moeller, and Hiroyuki Sakashita. After her are Carlos Vila Nova, Lee Haney, Toshihiko Okimune, Dominique Dunne, Wavel Ramkalawan, and Pete Burns.

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In India

Among people born in India, Soumya Swaminathan ranks 511 out of 1,861. Before her are Boney Kapoor (1955), Mamata Banerjee (1955), Dhondo Keshav Karve (1858), Kajol (1974), Sumitranandan Pant (1900), and John Frost (1912). After her are Ram Manohar Lohia (1910), Guru Har Krishan (1656), Pankaj Kapur (1954), M. S. Subbulakshmi (1916), Dadasaheb Phalke (1870), and C. N. Annadurai (1909).

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Among PHYSICIANS In India

Among physicians born in India, Soumya Swaminathan ranks 4. Before her are Ronald Ross (1857), Sushruta (-620), and Dean Mahomed (1759). After her are Kadambini Ganguly (1861), Devi Shetty (1953), Kamal Ranadive (1917), Indira Nath (1938), Bidhan Chandra Roy (1882), Narendra Dabholkar (1945), Siddhartha Mukherjee (1970), and Suniti Solomon (1938).

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