User:Santosh Kumar UCL

Dr. Santosh Kumar is an Erasmus Mundus Fellow for Public Health in Disasters at UCL Belgium(1) and adjunct faculty at the Indian Institute of Health Management Research (IIHMR) University, Jaipur, India ( 2, 3 ). He has done MHA from IIHMR Jaipur and PhD in Health care Quality from Birla Institute of Technology and Sciences. Dr. Santosh has over 18 years of work experience as manager, trainer, teacher and consultant. He has done many projects and trainings in the areas of Healthcare Quality Management, HMIS, operations research, hospital feasibility studies and market research in India, Afghanistan, Myanmar, Bhutan etc. During June 2012 to September 2015 he also served as associate faculty with Department of Health Policy and Management, Johns Hopkins University, USA.

During October –December 2011, Dr. Kumar volunteered with WHO Geneva, Switzerland, with department of Patient Safety and evaluated the WHO Patient Safety Small Grant research projects implemented in over 22 countries. Dr. Kumar is two times recipient of WHO young professional scholarship to attend ISQua international conferences held at Denmark and Hong Kong. He also received Fellowship from WHO Geneva and Arms Strong Institute, Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore to Attend Patient Safety Forum during September 23-25, 2013.

He is an experienced evaluator (also a NABH Assessor) and has functioned as team leader in a many projects on health systems, HMIS, Quality Assurance and Hospital Planning and Designing projects both Nationally and Internationally.