Somesh Kumar

Dr. Somesh Kumar is an optimist, a global health leader, and a public health physician with more than two decades of experience in promoting public health and the development of global health programs across multiple countries in Asia and Africa. A longtime global health advocate, Dr. Somesh has steadfastly spent his career curating and developing high-impact innovative interventions to increase access to and strengthen the quality of essential public health services and products in underserved regions worldwide. As a Senior Hub Director for Asia, Middle East and North Africa, he provides strategic guidance and oversight to country programs for strengthening of health systems and bring in game-changing innovations to solve complex public health problems. 

Dr. Somesh leads the Health Horizons Unit at Jhpiego’s Technical Leadership and Innovations office in Baltimore, US.  As Sr. Director for the Health Horizons team, he provides visionary guidance, and stewardship for advancing, designing and execute pioneering and innovative approaches and solutions for frontier priorities in Global health. This includes Technology & Advanced Analytics (AI/ML), Future Ready Health Systems, Women’s Cancers (Breast & Cervical), Life Course Immunization etc. He envisions creating value in the healthcare ecosystem with the ultimate goal of bringing healthcare closer to the users to consume healthcare when and where they want it.