Which former WHO Chief Scientist was elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society in May 2026?
Soumya Swaminathan
Soumya Swaminathan is a paediatrician and clinical scientist known for her research on tuberculosis and HIV. She served as Director General of the Indian Council of Medical Research and then as the first Chief Scientist of the World Health Organization from 2019 to 2022.
Being the former WHO Chief Scientist named in the question, she was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) in May 2026. The Royal Society, the UK's national academy of sciences, elects Fellows for outstanding contributions to science.
Gagandeep Kang, a virologist, had already been elected FRS in 2019, and she was not WHO Chief Scientist. Indira Hinduja is a gynaecologist known for pioneering work in assisted reproduction in India, and Tessy Thomas is a DRDO missile scientist; neither held the WHO post.
Hence, Soumya Swaminathan.
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