Background

An infectious diseases physician, Dr Suman Majumdar is Deputy Program Director (Health Security) at Burnet Institute, and a member of the Tuberculosis Working Group. He has focused skills in the clinical and programmatic management of TB/drug-resistant TB, HIV medicine, training healthcare workers, and health system strengthening.

Suman has worked in a variety of contexts, implementing TB/HIV and global health programs in Timor-Leste, China, India, Mexico, Swaziland and regions of the former Soviet Union.

He has a passion for working in global health through sustainable partnerships and building local capacity. His work aims to redress health inequalities resulting from infectious diseases and enhance health service delivery in low and middle-income countries by providing technical support, training and conducting operational/implementation research.

Additonal publications:

• http://theconversation.com/time-to-turn-back-the-tide-of-drug-resistant-tuberculosis-23720

Appointments

• Fellow of the Royal Australasian College of Physicians
• Member of the Royal College of Physicians, London
• Member of the Australasian Society of Infectious Diseases
• Member of the Australasian Society for HIV medicine
• Member of Médecins Sans Frontières Australia Association
• Member of the International Union Against Tuberculosis and Lung Disease

Positions

• 2017: Deputy Program Director (Health Security), Burnet Institute
• 2013: Infectious Diseases Specialist, Centre for International Health, Burnet Institute
• 2013-present: Consultant Infectious Diseases Physician, International Travel Health, The Alfred, Melbourne
• 2013: TB/HIV Program Implementer – Médecins Sans Frontières, Manson Unit, MSF UK
• 2011-2013: Clinical advisor and associate, Burnet Institute
• 2011-2013: Infectious diseases registrar, Royal Melbourne Hospital, Royal Darwin Hospital and The Alfred
• 2010: Drug-resistant TB doctor, Abkhazia/Georgia, Médecins Sans Frontières
• 2008-2009: Physician trainee; The Alfred Melbourne, Alice Springs Hospital, John Hunter Hospital Newcastle
• 2007: Project doctor, Timor-Leste, Australian Aid International
• 2004-2006: Intern, RMO; St Vincent’s Hospital Sydney, Monash Medical Centre Melbourne

Qualifications

• 2013: FRACP, Fellow of the Royal Australasian College of Physicians (Infectious Diseases)
• 2010: MRCP (UK), Member of the Royal College of Physicians, London
• 2007: MPH&TM, Master of Public Health and Tropical Medicine, James Cook University, Australia
• 2004: Bachelor of Medicine, University of Newcastle, Australia

Awards

• 2013: ASID International travel award, Australasian Society for Infectious Diseases
• 2004: UMAP Scholarship, University mobility in Asia and the Pacific
• 1998: Deans Commendation for High Achievement, University of Queensland

Projects (6)

Current (4)

• Healthy Mothers, Healthy Babies
  A collaborative research program aimed at providing life-saving health care for women and children in PNG.
• Rapid and accurate diagnosis of TB: New trial in PNG
  New PNG arm of a randomised control trial to trial new tuberculosis point-of-care technology.
• RID-TB Patient Education and Counselling
  Reducing the impact of DR-TB through patient-centred education and counselling in Daru, PNG.
• RID-TB: Reducing the Impact of Drug-Resistant TB in Western Province, PNG
  The project supports an effective provincial program to reduce the impact of TB in Daru.

Past (2)

• ANCP: Prevention and care for drug-resistant TB in Myanmar
  Implementation and evaluation of a model of drug-resistant TB care to facilitate scale-up in Myanmar.
• National TB Research Agenda Workshop for Myanmar: 4-5 September 2014
  Burnet Institute supported the National Tuberculosis Program (NTP) Myanmar to design and implement a national TB research agenda workshop to set the TB research priorities and road map for implementation for the next five years.

Publications (10)

2017 (1)

• Public-private mix for tuberculosis care and control in Myanmar: a strategy to scale up?
  Thet Lwin ZM, Sahu SK, Owiti P, Chinnakali P, Majumdar SS
  Public Health Action. 2017 Mar; 7(1):15-20

2016 (3)

• Extending 'Contact Tracing' into the community within a 50-metre radius of an index tuberculosis patient Using Xpert MTB/RIF in urban, Pakistan: Did it increase case detection?
  Fatima R, Qadeer E, Yaqoob A, Haq MU, Majumdar SS, Shewade HD, Stevens R, Creswell J, Mahmood N, Kumar AM
  PLoS One. 2016 Nov; 11(11):e0165813
• Dotting the Three I's for collaborative TB-HIV activities: evaluation of a pilot programme in Kathmandu, Nepal.
  Sah SK, Sahu SK, Lamichhane B, Bhatta GK, Bhandari KB, Owiti P, Majumdar SS
  Public Health Action. 2016 Sep; 6(3):169-175
• The Spectrum of Chromobacterium violaceum Infections from a Single Geographic Location.
  Lin YD, Majumdar SS, Hennessy J, Baird RW
  Am J Trop Med Hyg. 2016 Feb; 94(4):710-716

2015 (1)

• Neonatal mortality in India's rural poor: Findings of a household survey and verbal autopsy study in Rajasthan, Bihar and Odisha.
  Dogra V, Khanna R, Jain A, Kumar AM, Shewade HD, Majumdar SS
  J Trop Pediatr. 2015 Mar; 61(3):210-214

2014 (2)

• Calling tuberculosis a social disease--an excuse for complacency?
  Isaakidis P, Smith S, Majumdar S, Furin J, Reid T
  Lancet. 2014 Sep; 384(9948):1095
• Drug-resistant tuberculosis: collaborative regional leadership required.
  Majumdar SS, Marais BJ, Denholm JT, Britton WJ
  Med J Aust. 2014 Mar; 200(5):241-242

2013 (1)

• Hookworm in the Northern Territory: down but not out.
  Jane Davies, Suman S Majumdar, Robert T M Forbes, Pam Smith, Bart J Currie, Robert W Baird
  Med J Aust. 2013 Mar; 198(5):278-281

2012 (1)

• Nosocomial infections in the intensive care unit.
  Majumdar SS, Padiglione AA
  Anaesthes Intensive Care Med. 2012 May; 13(5):204-8

2011 (1)

• The 'frozen state' of drug-resistant tuberculosis: notes from the field in Abkhazia.
  S Majumdar, D O'Brien, N Hurtado, C Hewison, P du Cros
  Intern Med J. 2011 Dec; 41(12):805-808

News Articles (21)

2017 (9)

• Envoy calls for regional TB partnerships
• Funding for new PNG TB project
• Burnet research at World Congress on Public Health
• Burnet workshops for expectant parents adopted in PNG
• Leading roles for Burnet at World Congress on Public Health
• Daru unites to fight TB
• World TB Day elicits optimism
• TB fight comes to Canberra
• Support vital for patients on the TB journey

2016 (5)

• MDR-TB and malaria focus of $2 million research grant
• HMHB attracts Principal Supporter
• Link between TB, poverty explored
• Launch of Australian TB Caucus
• Boost for PNG TB project

2015 (4)

• TB Conference to lead the fight
• Burnet role in TB Forum
• Dame Carol Kidu Patron for HMHB
• Burnet supporting the fight against TB in PNG

2014 (2)

• 2014 in Review: January - June
• Drug-resistant tuberculosis: collaborative regional leadership required

2013 (1)

• Burnet launches Campaign to STOP TB