Abhijit Chowdhury is a Clinical Professor and Chair of Liver Disease at the Post Graduate Institute of Medical Education and Research (PGIMER) in Kolkata, West Bengal. Beyond his clinical responsibilities, he has been involved in designing and implementing impactful interventions in rural healthcare delivery, based on the pragmatic understanding of an academic and an activist. He had been a distinguished visiting fellow at the Division of Policy Translation and Leadership Development, Harvard Chan School of Public health. He leads a Health and Demographic Surveillance programme in West Bengal and is board member of the INDEPTH network to improve health surveillance for policy making.