Dr Basu is a medical doctor and an epidemiologist-health services researcher. He is a senior researcher at the Health Services Assessment Collaboration healthsac.net , and teaches courses on research methods at the University of Canterbury at Christchurch, New Zealand http://www.hsci.canterbury.ac.nz/. Before joining HSAC and the University of Canterbury, he was the Associate Director of the University of California at Berkeley – United States NIH Fogarty International Training Program in Environmental and Occupational Health in India.
Dr Basu’s primary research interests involve health services, outcomes research, environmental impact assessments, and related issues in epidemiology and methods in systematic reviews and meta analyses. His expertise includes inter-disciplinary linkage between health services research and environmental epidemiology. He has published on health impacts and determinants of Arsenic toxicity in the India, and currently edits a systematic review on middle ear pain in airplane travellers for “Clinical Evidence” – a secondary evidence based journal.