Sanjoy Bhattacharya

Sanjoy Bhattacharya, FRAS, is a British-Indian academic and historian, who is the permanent Head of the School of History at the University of Leeds in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, where he is also the professor of medical and global health histories.

Career Sanjoy Bhattacharya completed his undergraduate studies at St. Stephen's College, Delhi, before earning a Master of Arts degree from Jawaharlal Nehru University, and then a doctorate from the School of Oriental and African Studies in London. He was appointed a Wellcome Trust research fellow at Sheffield Hallam University in 1997, and took up a research fellowship at the University of Oxford four years later; at the same time, he was appointed to a lectureship at University College London, and remained there until 2010, when he became Reader in the History of Medicine at the University of York, where has since been promoted to a professorship and appointed Director of the Centre for Global Health Histories and Director of the World Health Organization Collaborating Centre for Global Health Histories. Bhattacharya moved to the University of Leeds, UK, on 1 September 2022, to take over as the permanent Head of the School of History.

Bhattacharya's research focuses on the medical, environmental and social history of South Asia in the 19th and 20th centuries and the modern history of global health programmes.