Soumyadeep Bhaumik সৌম্যদীপ ভৌমিক

New essay on AI ethics in evidence synthesis. Using the decolonial Bengali Adda approach, I unpack moral agency, bias, epistemic uncertainty, & knowledge systems impact. AI’s here to stay—like a cat out of the bag, we must bell it 🐈🔗journals.plos.org/globalpubliche… Thoughts?

Excellent review of discourse on 'decolonizing global health' 👇 Citing our quintessential piece on #feudal structure of #GlobalHealth cc @DrSoumyadeepB #equity #healthcare #research

“There is growing consensus among experts: current debt policies in many developing countries are serving financial markets, not the people. This threatens to condemn entire nations to a lost decade — or worse.” Debt is crushing the developing world ft.com/content/29a0f7…

Indo-French Postdoctoral Research Programme for Women in Science (PROWIS-I) by @IFCPAR Should be holding a PhD degree & have employment. Should not have availed any PDF in France in last 5 years Details at cefipra.org/Docs/PROWIS-I-… Apply by 23rd September 2025

Meaningful progress or empty promises ? Ahead of the @UNHLP , join the @georgeinstitute webinar on our latest policy analysis on how gender features in integrated NCD action plans Register: georgehub.zoom.us/webinar/regist… Policy Brief: x.com/DrSoumyadeepB/…

A video from today’s mass arrests of women in Kabul. A woman yells at a Taliban fighter: “You took our schools. Our lives! What more do you want? How much worse can you make this hell for us?” Her voice echoes what millions of Afghan women are living.

New policy analysis: The 2011 UN High-Level Meeting on NCDs urged gender-based approaches in NCD plans. Is gender considered in national NCD plans? Any meaningful progress, or just empty promises 14 years later? 🔗georgeinstitute.org/sites/default/… @georgeinstitute

Now available: @WHO Guidance on Ethics of Health Research Priority Setting & the accompanying casebook. It’s been an absolute honour to serve on the writing committee past 2 years & contribute to this significant piece of work. 🔗iris.who.int/handle/10665/3… 🔗iris.who.int/handle/10665/3…

The elite-cheered repression in US, as many r aware, shares similarities with how the other big democracy, India, embraced authoritarianism - fueled by the lies & violence of traditional elites who wanted no more justice/equality, as J Dreze wrote in 2020: theindiaforum.in/article/revolt…

Quite excited that the @WHO Guidance on the ethics of health research priority-setting, on which I’ve worked as a writing committee member for 2 years, is being launched! As budgets shrink, ethical priority-setting is critical. Join the webinar: 📣who.int/news-room/even…

A meta-study of 54 studies and 170,000+ people found that: People remember more information if they read a physical book instead of a digital one. The paper advantage holds across ages and has grown over time. Looks like paper beats pixel.

Applications open ! Please visit cmhlp.org/course/the-int… For details.

Amartya Sen Essay Prize @AcademicsStand In 2025, ...12th annual Amartya Sen Prizes to two best original essays examining one particular component of illicit financial flows, the resulting harms, and possible avenues of reform 31 Aug due academicsstand.org/amartya-sen-pr…

A wonderfully thoughtful piece, on legal (and ethical) questions surrounding AI. Also a great argument for a liberal education - the writer is a graduate student in Comp. Lit." The battle over copyright in the age of ChatGPT. bostonreview.net/articles/to-wh…?

India's MRHRU's research priorities are now set. And it is powered by community voices. As a methodologist, I enjoyed (& learned) a lot working with ICMR to craft this work to inform investment strategies & understand how priorities vary. #RuralHealth 🔗dx.doi.org/10.25259/ijmr_…

The future of publishing, taken to its logical conclusion under capitalism: everything becomes content for the reproduction of markets. The publisher is dead; long live the data vendor. getcoai.com/news/publishin…

New from me and @bayinganaa: why nothing in Global Health will change without significant reconfiguration of the financial structuring of elite institutions, how "soft money" perpetuates inequality, and the need for rethinking responsibility for change given these structures

We are looking for 2 Impact Fellows (Health Systems & Policy) to join our team @ucl_GBSH. Prior experience in Sub-Saharan Africa required #healthsystems #healthpolicy #leadership @mjschleiff @dadasara3 @NoraAnnColton @ProfIAbubakar lnkd.in/e3ZTzRcp @EDCTP @DHSCgovuk @WHO

Trust me to write a long essay on the sheer greatness of Bunty Aur Babli and how spot-on its understanding of post-liberalised India was indianexpress.com/article/entert…

No matter how you look at it, there’s a reason for #diversity in #leadership—and many of them. And yet, a recent BMJ Leader study by @Manishbarikbbsr, S. Bhaumik & our Co-CEO @KentBuse shows global committees on climate & health are still far from representative. 🔗 Read more:…

On the sidelines of #WHA78 last week, a Global Snakebite Taskforce was launched to streamline global action & investment. Quite pleased to see our flagship work on Depression & PTSD after snakebite, and the analysis of structural capacity for snakebite care have found space.