Dr. Sanghamitra Pati is a distinguished physician, laboratory scientist, and public-health researcher with more than three decades of experience in advancing biomedical research, health systems, and evidence-based public health in India. She serves as Additional Director General at the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR), Government of India, while continuing as Director of the ICMR-Regional Medical Research Centre, Bhubaneswar, a position she has held since 2016. Her professional mission has centered on translating scientific research into practical health solutions, with particular emphasis on communicable and non-communicable diseases, multimorbidity, primary healthcare, implementation research, health-system strengthening, and health equity.

Dr. Pati completed her MBBS in 1992 and MD in 1998 from MKCG Medical College, Berhampur, Odisha, before earning a Master of Public Health from Maastricht University, Netherlands, through the prestigious Joint Japan/World Bank Graduate Scholarship. She subsequently completed her PhD from Maastricht University in 2023. -:: RMRC BBS R::- During her tenure at ICMR-RMRC Bhubaneswar, she has led and contributed to major programs spanning tuberculosis, malaria, vector-borne diseases, One Health, sickle-cell disease, health technology assessment, and artificial-intelligence-based disease screening. She also played a significant role in COVID-19 research and surveillance in eastern India, including serosurveillance studies across Odisha, Chhattisgarh, and Jharkhand, and contributed to the development of a rapid-antigen diagnostic kit in Odisha.

Among her notable research achievements is leadership in the development of AdFalciVac, described by ICMR-RMRC as India’s first multistage malaria vaccine candidate targeting Plasmodium falciparum, with technology transferred to five Indian companies for further development. Her contributions have earned national and international recognition, including the Devi Award in 2020 for her contribution to cutting-edge public health research. She is also a Fellow of several prestigious professional academies and organizations, including NAMS, NASI, the National Academy of Sciences, the Royal Colleges of Physicians, and the Royal Society of Public Health. Her research impact has additionally placed her among the world’s top 2% of scientists in Stanford/Elsevier’s citation-based database.