Dr. Somen Saha
Professor
Dr. Somen Saha is Professor with the Indian Institute of Public Health Gandhinagar. His work areas include economic assessment of health programmes, impact evaluation, health financing, and health systems convergence. Dr. Somen holds a PhD from the University of Melbourne, Australia and dual Masters in Public Health (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill) and Health Management (Indian Institute of Health Management Research).
Dr. Somen currently leads the Centre of Excellence in Nutrition set up at IIPHG supporting the Women & Child Development Department, Gujarat and Resource Hub for Health Technology Assessment set up at IIPHG with support from Department of Health Research, Government of India. Somen is also supporting SRESTHA Gujarat – a five-year health system strengthening initiative by World Bank support to H&FW Gujarat as an Independent Verification Agency.
His teaching experience includes teaching courses in Project Management, Financial Management, Health Technology Assessment, Impact Evaluation and Quality of Care at the Master’s level. His research interest is Health financing and programme evaluation including economic evaluation of health programmes. He has more than 75 publications, with 1162 citation, H index 17 & I 10 index 32
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