Rate My Professor Sadhana Bose

Dr Sadhana Bose serves as an Adjunct Senior Clinical Lecturer at Curtin Medical School within the Faculty of Health Sciences at Curtin University in Perth, Western Australia. As a founding academic since moving to Australia in 2014, she led the design and delivery of the population health curriculum stream, including 'Doctor as a Professional,' at Western Australia's first undergraduate medical school. She continues to teach medical students and acts as a Perth-based chaplain, offering spiritual well-being activities such as weekly Bhagavad Gita classes in collaboration with the Curtin Hindu Club. Currently, she is Medical Lead for the Twinning Collaboration between South Metropolitan Health Service and tertiary public sector hospitals in India, providing strategic leadership in public health policy development, advocacy, medical education, translational clinical research, service implementation, and evaluation across Australian, British, and Indian health systems.

Bose earned her MBBS in 1985 and MD in Community Medicine in 1993 from the Mahatma Gandhi Institute of Medical Sciences in India, an MSc from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, Certificate of Completion of Specialist Training in Public Health Medicine from Oxford in 2002, and Fellowship of the Faculty of Public Health Medicine in London. Her career encompasses preventive oncology and public health roles in India, the UK, and Australia. From 1995 to 1997, as Consultant in Preventive Oncology at Tata Memorial Hospital, she developed the department, launched a Cervical Dysplasia Clinic, population awareness campaigns, and a hospital-based tobacco cessation program recognized by WHO as an example of good practice. In the UK NHS, she focused on cancer control and health inequalities, serving as National Childhood Cancer Intelligence Lead on the NCIN Site Specific Cancer Research Group (2010-2014), Regional Breast Cancer Screening Director for South Central England, and Regional Clinical Quality Lead for South East England. A visiting lecturer at Oxford University since 2002, she trained as a General Medical Council appraiser in 2013 and contributed as chapter editor to the Chief Medical Officer's Annual Report (2011). She serves on the editorial board of the Journal of Public Health and holds leadership positions including Chairperson of the Australian Multicultural Health Collaborative, Chairperson of WA Lions Wellbeing Foundation, and President of the Ethnic Communities Council of Western Australia, championing health equity, social cohesion, gender equality, wellbeing, and environmental sustainability.