Soumyadeep Bhaumik was the HIFA Country Representative of the Year for 2012, and is a medical doctor and international public health specialist from India. He works on applications of a diverse range of methodologies to ensure fit-for-purpose approaches to inform policy, practice and future research. His work has informed multiple WHO guidelines, technical documents, national and sub-national health policies. He is also interested in addressing equity and understanding ethics and moral philosophies which underpin current research and global health ecosystems. He has previously worked as a researcher with the Public Health Foundation of India, Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, Cochrane South Asia and as an emergency physician in Columbia Asia Hospitals, Salt Lake. Soumyadeep is also an Associate Editor, Evidence Synthesis, BMJ Global Health and is the Co-Convenor of the Cochrane Priority Setting Methods Group.In addition he has experience in science and research communication and has written for British Medical Journal, Canadian Medical Association Journal, Lancet and Lancet Oncology and National Medical Journal of India. https://soumyadeepbhaumik.in/