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Lecturer
Faculty of Law and Business, Peter Faber Business School
Areas of expertise: workforce retention and motivation; health systems and workforce; HRM in the public health sector; individual, managerial and role effectiveness
Phone: +61 435 057 809
Email: [email protected]
Location: ACU North Sydney Campus
HDR Supervisor accreditation status: HDR Supervisor (Provisional)
ORCID ID: 0000-0002-7427-6371
Dr Bhaskar Purohit is a Lecturer in Human Resource Management (HRM) and Management at Peter Faber Business School, with teaching expertise in Organizational Behavior (OB), Leadership, and Introduction to Management. He brings over a decade of international research and professional experience in health workforce and workplace-related issues, particularly employee motivation, workforce retention, OB, and employees’ interactions with HRM systems. His interdisciplinary experience bridges HRM, OB, and public health, bringing valuable research-informed and practical perspectives to his teaching.
Dr Purohit holds a PhD from the University of Queensland, Australia, a Master of Public Health from Harvard University, USA, and a master's degree in Health Management from India. During his doctoral studies, he also taught postgraduate courses in health systems and global health at the University of Queensland.
He has received several prestigious international research fellowships, grants, and awards, including two highly competitive international research fellowships focused on health workforce and health systems research. Dr Purohit was also selected as a Global Change Scholar by the University of Queensland and an Emerging Voice for Global Health (EV4GH), an international initiative hosted by the University of the Western Cape, South Africa, and organized by the Institute of Tropical Medicine, Antwerp, Belgium.
He has presented at numerous international conferences and published his research in internationally recognized peer-reviewed journals. His research contributions have earned several awards, including the Young Scientist Award from the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) and the Best Oral Presentation Award at the 46th Asia-Pacific Academic Consortium for Public Health (APACPH) Conference in Kuala Lumpur.
Before joining Peter Faber Business School, Dr Purohit held academic and research positions at the University of Queensland, the Indian Institute of Public Health Gandhinagar (IIPHG), and several non-governmental organizations in India.