Burnet Institute
Suman Majumdar is a highly experienced health professional currently serving as Chief Health Officer for COVID and Health Emergencies, and Deputy Program Director for Health Security at Burnet Institute since December 2013. In addition to this role, Suman is co-head of the Tuberculosis Elimination & Implementation Science Working Group, Deputy Head of the Know-C19 Strategic Flagship Initiative, and an Infectious Diseases Specialist and Senior Fellow at the Centre for International Health. Suman also holds adjunct academic positions at Monash University and serves as a Consultant Infectious Diseases Physician at Epworth HealthCare, along with maintaining a role as an Infectious Diseases Physician at Alfred Health. Previous positions include Deputy Chief Health Officer for COVID-19 at the Victorian Department of Health and Principal Medical Adviser for the Australian Department of Health. Suman's educational background includes degrees from the University of Newcastle, James Cook University, the Royal College of Physicians (London), and fellowship from the Royal Australasian College of Physicians.
Burnet Institute
Burnet Institute brings together a highly diverse skill base to help solve devastating health problems. Linking medical research with public health action through our international and local field presence, our laboratories, and our mixed development and research cultures drives greater focus on the most relevant global health issues, and a greater impact as a result. Burnet’s expertise in specific infectious diseases of global health significance (especially COVID-19, HIV, malaria, tuberculosis, and viral hepatitis) continues to make an impact on vulnerable communities internationally and in Australia, along with our research and public health programs in women’s and children’s health; alcohol, drugs and harm reduction; sexual and reproductive health; healthy ageing and young people’s health. Burnet Institute is formally accredited as a medical research organisation with the National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC), and as a non-government organisation (NGO) with the Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade – Australian Aid. Burnet Institute’s head office is in Melbourne, Australia and we also have offices or representatives in Myanmar, Papua New Guinea and China, as well as supporting projects in other Asia-Pacific countries.