Dr. Ambarish Dutta

After earning his bachelor's degree in medicine from Calcutta National Medical College, Dr. Ambarish Dutta began his public health career with the Urban Leprosy Control Programme in Calcutta. He later joined the World Health Organization's India office as a medical consultant for the Revised National Tuberculosis Control Programme.

For almost a decade, he provided technical assistance to state and central government health departments and worked with tuberculosis training and research institutes across India. He later completed a Master of Public Health at the University of Leeds and earned a PhD in epidemiology and public health from the University of Exeter. His doctoral research focused on the factors underlying ageing and age-related chronic diseases.

He is currently Professor of Epidemiology at the Indian Institute of Public Health, Bhubaneswar, an institution of the Public Health Foundation of India. He analyses primary and secondary data from health projects and programmes at state and national levels to inform policy and leads implementation research projects in tuberculosis and malaria control.

His research interests also include the epidemiology of predictors of age-related diseases. He teaches epidemiology and biostatistics to postgraduate public health students and guides PhD scholars.