Santosh Kumar Mishra is a independent researcher (Scholar), retired (on June 30, 2020), as Technical Assistant, from Population Education Resource Centre, department of Lifelong Learning & Extension, S.N.D.T. Women's University, Mumbai, India. He underwent training in demography, with award of Government of India Fellowship, during 1986-1987 from the IIPS, Mumbai. Also, he acquired Ph. D. from University of Patna in 1999. His other qualifications include post-master’s diploma in adult & continuing education, certificate course on hospital and health care management, and diploma in Human Resource Development. He have authored (some co-authored) 5 booklets, 4 books, 23 book chapters, 97 journal articles, 2 monographs, 7 research studies, & 56 papers for national & international conferences (some with bursary). He have been awarded with certificate of excellence in reviewing for 2017, 2018, 2021 & 2022. I have been conferred with excellence of research award for outstanding contribution & recognition in the field of agriculture in 2021. Besides contributing to over 221 e-discussions, he served as Judge for the 2021 IHA Health Literacy Awards. After retirement, he is presently involved, in his individual capacity, as Independent Researcher (Scholar) with academic activities, such as authorship, editorship, etc. He was involved as collaborator for over 120 international developmental agencies.

Gynecology, Health care