Awarded Fellow of the Royal Society (2026).
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Soumya Swaminathan
Soumya Swaminathan is an Indian paediatrician and clinical scientist known for her research on tuberculosis and HIV. Soumya 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 part…
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science · Indian and WHO Deputy Director general · scientist · pediatrician · physician · also Soumya Swaminathan, Soumya Swaminathan Yadav, S. Swaminathan, Swaminathan
Born 2 May 1959 · Q21062285
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2026· 3 entries
NDTV: Soumya Swaminathan Elected to Royal Society, Follows Father M.S. Swaminathan's Legacy
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NDTV: Former ICMR Chief Soumya Swaminathan Warns Against Online Health Misinformation
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2025· 4 entries
Mint: Soumya Swaminathan slams Air India for ‘terrible experience’ after seat upgrade issue; airline reacts
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The Financial Express: ‘Terrible experience with Air India’: Soumya Swaminathan slams airline over seat upgrade snub
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Mid Day: Soumya Swaminathan: Zoonotic diseases, climate change threaten human health
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Mid Day: Soumya Swaminathan: Nothing to panic about HMPV, don't jump at detection of every pathogen
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2021· 1 entry
Soumya was also appointed to the Pandemic Preparedness Partnership (PPP), an expert group chaired by Patrick Vallance to advise the G7 presidency held by the government of Prime Minister Boris Johnson
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2017· 2 entries
Published “Global, regional, and national incidence, prevalence, and years lived with disability for 328 diseases and injuries for 195 countries, 1990–2016: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2016” in The Lancet — cited 6,185 times.
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Published “Global, regional, and national age-sex specific mortality for 264 causes of death, 1980–2016: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2016” in The Lancet — cited 3,718 times.
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2016· 3 entries
Published “Global, regional, and national incidence, prevalence, and years lived with disability for 310 diseases and injuries, 1990–2015: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2015” in The Lancet — cited 5,711 times.
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Published “Global, regional, and national life expectancy, all-cause mortality, and cause-specific mortality for 249 causes of death, 1980–2015: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2015” in The Lancet — cited 5,088 times.
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Published “Global, regional, and national comparative risk assessment of 79 behavioural, environmental and occupational, and metabolic risks or clusters of risks, 1990–2015: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2015” in The Lancet — cited 3,511 times.
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1995· 1 entry
Published “Interpreting chromosomal DNA restriction patterns produced by pulsed-field gel electrophoresis: criteria for bacterial strain typing” in Journal of Clinical Microbiology — cited 6,416 times.
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1992· 1 entry
Soumya joined the National Institute for Research in Tuberculosis a/k/a Tuberculosis Research Centre, where she was Coordinator, Neglected Tropical Diseases
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1983· 1 entry
Published “<scp>CHARMM</scp> : A program for macromolecular energy, minimization, and dynamics calculations” in Journal of Computational Chemistry — cited 13,597 times.
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1959· 1 entry
Born 1959-05-02.
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