Professor
Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
Disclosure: I do not have any relevant financial / non-financial relationships with any proprietary interests.
Yukari Manabe is a Professor of Medicine in the Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine in the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and the Director of the Johns Hopkins Center for Innovative Diagnostics for Infectious Diseases with joint appointments in International Health, Molecular Microbiology and Immunology in the Bloomberg School of Public Health, and the Makerere University College of Health Sciences in Kampala, Uganda as well as the Associate Director of Global Health Research and Innovation in the Center for Global Health. She is dedicated to accelerating infectious disease frugal diagnostic development, innovation, and access to increase diagnostic certainty and targeted treatment. Her research has focused on infectious disease diagnostics for STI’s, HIV, TB, and respiratory viruses (COVID-19, influenza) and their impact on patient-centered outcomes. She is a Fellow of the IDSA, Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians, and a member of the IDSA Global Health Committee.
