Faculty members

Keith Klugman

Professor Keith Klugman is the Director of Pneumonia 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 currently the Past President of the International Society of Infectious Diseases; he is Treasurer of the Board of the International Symposium of Pneumococci and Pneumococcal 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 Wellcome Trust and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). He serves as an editor or member of the editorial board of 16 journals.

Professor Klugman has made major contributions to the field of pneumococcal disease. His work, including the demonstration of 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 500 scientific papers which have been cited more than 25,000 times to date. His current position allows him the opportunity to contribute to the mission of the Gates Foundation to reduce deaths from pneumonia in children, thus allowing them the chance to lead healthy and productive lives.