Smarajit Jana
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Smarajit Jana (21 July 1952 to 8 May 2021) was a public health scientist of the All India Institute of Hygiene and Public Health, Kolkata. He is notable for his work for the rights of sex workers in Sonagachi.[1][2][3][4] He was an epidemiologist and member of the Indian National Task Force on COVID-19, which later infected him, leading to his death.[5]
Jana was a medical doctor and completed his MBBS in 1978 from Calcutta University. He completed his post graduate course on Tropical Medicine and Health from STM, Calcutta between 1981 and 82. He also did his M.D. in Social and Preventive Medicine at AIIH & PH, Calcutta University. He also did courses in epidemiology and health system development in School of Hygiene and Public Health, the Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, USA, AIDS Education and Training Center, The University of Washington, Seattle, USA. and Dept. of Public Health, Leeds University, United Kingdom.[6] His married Madhulina and has a daughter, Samaita, and son, Sambit.[7]
