Dr Murallitharan Munisamy is a Public Health Physician from Malaysia. He trained as a Medical Officer in the Russian Federation under a Malaysian government scholarship and completed a Master’s in Community Health Sciences at the National University of Malaysia. He earned a PhD in Public Health from Chulalongkorn University, Thailand, under the ASEAN Economic Community program. In 2015, he received the Chevening Scholarship from the UK Foreign and Commonwealth Office, completing a term as a Fellow in Health Policy, Planning, and Financing at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine and the London School of Economics and Political Science.

Before his medical career, Dr Murallitharan was an award-winning journalist for the New Straits Times, a leading English newspaper in Malaysia. In medicine, he has served in various roles, including medical officer and clinician at Hospital Kuala Lumpur and the National Blood Bank, clinical epidemiologist for the Clinical Research Centre, Ministry of Health, Malaysia, and Medical Director of MMPKV Healthcare Sdn Bhd. He is deeply involved with healthcare services for marginalized and underprivileged groups, working with organizations like the Tzu Chi Foundation, Sathya Sai Baba Organisation of Malaysia, Divine Life Society of Malaysia, Assunta Hospital, and the Society of St. Vincent de Paul.

Dr Murallitharan’s interests lie in public health, health systems, and health economics. He collaborates with Chulalongkorn University, the University of Tokyo, the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, and the London School of Economics. He is currently the Medical Director of the National Cancer Society of Malaysia