Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation
Director, Pneumonia
Professor Keith Klugman is the Director of the Pneumonia, Meningitis, Neonatal
Sepsis and Antimicrobial Resistance Programs at the Bill and Melinda Gates
Foundation in Seattle WA. He is the Emeritus William H. Foege Chair of Global Health
at the Hubert Department of Global Health, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia. In
addition, he serves as an Honorary Professor in the Respiratory and Meningeal
Pathogens Research Unit at the University of the Witwatersrand, in Johannesburg,
South Africa.
Professor Klugman is a past president of the International Society of Infectious
Diseases; and a past chair of the International Board of the American Society for
Microbiology. In 2015 Keith was elected to membership of the US National Academy
of Medicine. He has chaired or served on numerous expert committees for the
World Health Organization (WHO), the Welcome Trust and the Centers for Disease
Control and Prevention (CDC). He currently serves as an editor or member of the
editorial advisory board of the journals Clinical Infectious Diseases, Emerging
Infectious Diseases and MBio.
Professor Klugman has made his major contributions in the field of pneumococcal
research, including antimicrobial resistance. His work demonstrating pneumococcal
conjugate vaccine efficacy in the developing world, has led to interventions that
continue to save millions of lives especially in Africa and in Asia. He has published
more than 600 scientific papers which have been cited more than 35,000 times to
date. His current position allows him the opportunity to contribute to the mission of
the Gates Foundation to reduce deaths from pneumonia, neonatal sepsis and
meningitis in children, thus allowing them the chance to lead healthy and productive
lives.
Moderator of 1 Session
Session Type
Special Symposium
Date
Mon, 21.02.2022
Session Time
11:00 AM - 12:30 PM
Room
Sala A
Session Description
Symposium organised and supported with an education grant provided by Bill and Melinda Gates FoundationSession Description:This session will focus on novel aspects of pneumococcal conjugate vaccines (PCVs). It will describe new, expanded-valency vaccines for children currently in clinical trials as well as more affordable options to improve sustainability of PCV programs.
Presenter of 2 Presentations
Live Q&A
Session Type
Special Symposium
Date
Mon, 21.02.2022
Session Time
11:00 AM - 12:30 PM
Room
Sala A
Lecture Time
12:14 PM - 12:30 PM
Welcome and Introduction
Session Type
Special Symposium
Date
Mon, 21.02.2022
Session Time
11:00 AM - 12:30 PM
Room
Sala A
Lecture Time
11:00 AM - 11:05 AM