Keith Klugman at the 2026 LaMontagne Lecture
Apr
7
2026
Apr
7
2026
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Dr. Keith Klugman, MD, PhD, Director of the Pneumonia Program at the Gates Foundation, leads the foundation’s work to reduce deaths from pneumonia, neonatal sepsis, and meningitis in children.
Dr. 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, he was elected to membership of the National Academy of Medicine in the United States. He has chaired or served on numerous expert committees for the World Health Organization (WHO), the Wellcome Trust, and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). 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.
Specializing in infectious diseases and microbiology, Dr. Klugman has made 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 have saved millions of lives, especially in Africa. He has published more than 600 scientific papers which have been cited more than 30,000 times to date.
Location
NHB 1.720
Reception and Graduate Student-Postdoc Q&A Session to follow
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