Dr Sushmita Chatterjee
PhD in Economics
Susmita Chatterjee works as Senior Health Economist at the George Institute for Global Health India. Her research interests include economic burden of disease studies, cost analysis of health services and economic evaluation. Her past projects include studying the economic burden of cholera and typhoid fever in Kolkata, India and the cost effectiveness of cholera and typhoid vaccines. She conducted a comprehensive study on economic burden of diabetes in Thailand. As an Indo-US public health fellow, she worked on cost-effectiveness of surgical interventions in India. She did the costing and financing of India’s routine immunization programme for 2013-17 and 2018-22. She led the largest immunization costing study conducted till date in India covering 255 government health facilities in India. She was the health economist coordinator for two mental health projects in Gujarat, India. Given her extensive expertise in cost analysis and economic burden studies, Susmita will help designing the pilot study, develop economic assessment tools, provide training, monitor data collection, ensure quality of data.
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1. Principal Investigator, Economic burden of Tuberculosis in India, The Wellcome Trust/DBT India Alliance Intermediate Fellowship, India
2. Principal Investigator, Economic evaluation of Mission Indradhanush: Feasibility assessment. Harvard University, USA.
3. Principal Investigator, Cost of delivering routine immunization services in India. Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.
4. Principal Investigator, Per person cost of misoprostol for primary versus secondary prevention of postpartum haemorrhage. Gynuity Health Projects, USA.
5. Principal Investigator, Target vaccination strategies that maximize population level health impact. Johns Hopkins University, USA.
- Asia Fellows Awards 2008-2009 (Cohort 10) administered by the Asian Scholarship Foundation, Bangkok, Thailand, funded by the Ford Foundation. Title of the project: “Economic valuation of diabetes and its consequences in Thailand”. Host Institution: Faculty of Pharmacy, Mahidol University, Thailand. Duration of fellowship – 9 months (August 2008 to May 2009).
- Indo-US Public Health Fellowship 2013. Title of the project: “Cost-effectiveness of surgical services in India”. Host Institution: Institute of Global Orthopedics and Traumatology, University of California, San Francisco, USA. Duration of fellowship – 3 months (December 2013 to March 2014).
- Wellcome Trust DBT Clinical and Public Health Intermediate Fellowship (starting in 2018). Title of the project: “Economic burden of tuberculosis in India”.
I conducted cost of illness studies for cholera, typhoid fever and diabetes. I was also involved in cost-effectiveness studies on cholera and typhoid fever vaccines and treatment and secondary prevention of acute myocardial infraction.
I was involved in costing and financing of India's comprehensive multi-year plan for immunization for 2013-2017 and 2018-2022. I led the largest immunization costing study conducted in India to estimate the delivery cost of routine immunization programme for the government.
Currently, I am working on cost and efficiency of Intensified Mission Indradhanush Programme; cost of providing tuberculosis services from health systems' perspective and economic burden of tuberculosis in India.
My Teaching
- Part-time Lecturer in Economics’ in the Department of Commerce, Surendranath College, Kolkata, West Bengal, India from September 1996 to January 2001 and from February 2003 to April 2004.
- ‘Guest Lecturer in Economics’ in Rabindra Bharati University, Kolkata, West Bengal, India from January 2000 to January 2001.
- ‘Lecturer in Economics’ in Durgapur Government College, West Bengal, India from January to November 2001.