Sushanta K Singha is Planning Editor at Ekattor Television and a public health researcher with more than 16 years of experience across five major television networks. In 2025, he received the WHO South-East Asia Regional Director’s Special Recognition Award for his consistent contributions to tobacco control journalism, the first journalist from Bangladesh to receive this recognition. His investigative reporting covers international trade, climate change, agribusiness, public health, labor rights, and financial corruption, with a focus on corporate accountability and regulatory enforcement.

He also received the Ministry of Health’s World No Tobacco Day Award (2023, 2025) and the Ministry of Labour’s Best Investigative Reporter Award for his series on labor conditions at the British American Tobacco factory in Kushtia.

He has held fellowships with the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, GIJN, Internews, the National Press Foundation, and Vital Strategies, and has presented research at conferences in Ireland, the UK, South Africa, and Indonesia. He is the author of Somprochar Sangbadikota Ek: Path O Bastobota ( 2021), among the first books on broadcast journalism in Bangladesh, and Myths and Realities of Tobacco Company (2024).

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