SUSMITA CHATTERJEE

Dr. Susmita Chatterjee is an economist and the Program Head of Health Economics at the George Institute for Global Health, India. With a PhD from Calcutta University, India, and post-doctoral research at Mahidol University, Thailand, and the University of San Francisco, USA, her expertise lies in health service costing, economic burden studies, health financing, and economic evaluations.

Dr. Chatterjee has led significant research projects, including India’s two largest immunization costing studies, which assessed the delivery cost of routine immunization and the incremental cost of coverage improvement. She was also a co-investigator on a multi-country study estimating the cost of TB services in India and recently led a DBT/Wellcome Trust India Alliance Fellowship project examining the economic burden of TB through a cohort study of 1,630 individuals in partnership with the Central TB Division, Government of India.

Her work spans economic evaluations in mental health, hypertension, chronic kidney disease, and cancer. Dr. Chatterjee has co-authored key resources, such as a vaccine economics curriculum developed with Johns Hopkins University and international collaborators, a costing manual for provider payments by the Joint Learning Network, and a health economics handbook on vaccines published by Oxford University Press.

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