Sanjoy Bhattacharya, FRAS, is an 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,[1] where he is also the professor of medical and global health histories.
[2] 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.
Bhattacharya moved to the University of Leeds, UK, on 1 September 2022, to take over as the permanent Head of the School of History.
In 2011, Bhattacharya was elected a Fellow of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland, where he now serves as a member of its Governing Council.
[4] In 2021, during the global COVID-19 pandemic, Bhattacharya pointed out that vaccine passports were first introduced over a century earlier, in British India in 1897, to control the spread of plague and smallpox.