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Medical Officer
World Health Organization
Geneva, Geneve, Switzerland
Krutika Kuppalli, MD, FIDSA is a Medical Officer for Emerging Zoonotic Diseases and Clinical Management in the Health Emergencies Program at the World Health Organization where she currently supports activities for the Monkeypox outbreak and COVID-19 pandemic. She completed her Internal Medicine residency and Infectious Diseases fellowship at Emory University, a Post-Doctoral Fellowship in Global Public Health at the University of California, San Diego and the Emerging Leader in Biosecurity Fellowship at the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security. Dr. Kuppalli currently serves as the Chair of the Infectious Diseases Society of America (IDSA) Global Health Committee.
Since joining WHO in 2021, Dr. Kuppalli has been part of the WHO headquarters incident management team (IMST) for COVID-19, the clinical characterization and management working group for COVID-19, the COVID-19 therapeutics steering committee, and is the technical focal point for the post COVID-19 condition (Long COVID) steering committee. She is a member of the secretariat on the scientific advisory group on the origins of emerging and re-emerging infectious diseases (SAGO) which was convened to investigate the origins of SARS-CoV-2 and other novel pathogens. More recently since the development of the multi-country monkeypox outbreak she has been part of the IMST at WHO as one of the clinical management focal points. In this capacity she was part of the WHO core group that helped write the recently published Clinical Management and Infection Prevention and Control guidelines for Monkeypox.
I do not have any relevant financial / non-financial relationships with any proprietary interests.
Wednesday, October 19, 2022
8:00 AM – 12:00 PM US ET
Wednesday, October 19, 2022
10:45 AM – 12:00 PM US ET
Saturday, October 22, 2022
10:30 AM – 11:45 AM US ET
Saturday, October 22, 2022
10:30 AM – 10:55 AM US ET