Soumya Swaminathan
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From 1989 to 1990, Swaminathan was a Research Fellow (Registrar) in the Department of Pediatric Respiratory Diseases at the University of Leicester in the United Kingdom.
She then worked as a Senior Research Officer (Supernumerary Research Cadre), Cardiopulmonary Medicine Unit, as well as an Adjunct Associate Clinical Professor at the Department of Public Health and Family Medicine at Tufts University School of Medicine in New Jersey.
In 1992, Swaminathan joined the National Institute for Research in Tuberculosis a/k/a Tuberculosis Research Centre, where she was Coordinator, Neglected Tropical Diseases. She later became the director of the National Institute for Research in Tuberculosis.
From 2009 to 2011, Swaminathan was Coordinator of the UNICEF/UNDP/World Bank/WHO Special Programme for Research and Training in Tropical Diseases in Geneva.
Until 2013, she was Director, National Institute for Research in Tuberculosis (NIRT) in Chennai.
From August 2015 to November 2017, Swaminathan was Director General of the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) and Secretary of the Department of Health Research (Ministry of Health & Family Welfare) for the Government of India.
From October 2017 to March 2019, Swaminathan was Deputy Director-General of the World Health Organization.
In March 2019, Swaminathan became Chief Scientist of the World Health Organization, where she participated in regular twice weekly press briefings on the COVID-19 pandemic. She has urged countries to conduct whole genome sequencing of the SARS-CoV-2 virus more frequently and to upload sequences to the GISAID project.
In the preparations for the Global Health Summit hosted by the European Commission and the G20 in May 2021, Swaminathan was a member of the event's High Level Scientific Panel.
- 1999: XI National Pediatric Pulmonary Conference, Dr. Keya Lahiri Gold Medal for best paper
- 2008: Indian Council of Medical Research, Kshanika Oration Award
- 2009: International Union against TB and Lung Diseases, Vice-Chair, HIV section
- 2011: Indian Academy of Pediatrics, Fellow
- 2011: Indian Association of Applied Microbiologists, Lifetime Achievement Award
- 2012: Tamil Nadu Science and Technology Award
- 2012: National Academy of Sciences, India, Fellow
- 2013: Indian Academy of Sciences, Bangalore, Fellow,
- 2016: NIPER, ASTRAZENECA research endowment award