Dr. Monica M. Farley is the Jonas A. Shulman Professor of Medicine and the Director of the Division of Infectious Diseases at Emory University School of Medicine and a Staff Physician at the Atlanta VA Medical Center. She is Past-President of the American Federation for Medical Research and a longstanding council member and Past-President of the Southern Society for Clinical Investigation. Dr. Farley leads a large infectious diseases division at Emory made up of nearly 90 faculty members with a large research portfolio. She serves as the academic Principal Investigator for the Georgia Emerging Infections Program (EIP), a CDC-funded surveillance network of ten national sites conducting applied epidemiologic and laboratory research focused on invasive bacterial pathogens (many vaccine preventable), influenza, foodborne diseases, healthcare-associated infections, and now COVID-19. She is a past member of the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Advisory Committee on Vaccines and Related Biological Products (VRBPAC) and she currently serves on the Pneumococcal Vaccine Working Group for CDC’s Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP). She is a board member for the National Foundation for Infectious Diseases. Dr. Farley also serves as a Director of the Leadership Operations Center for the NIH-funded Infectious Diseases Clinical Research Consortium.