Keith Klugman, MD, Ph.D.

Professor of Infectious Diseases,

Department of International Health

Rollins School of Public Health

Professor of Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases

School of Medicine,

Emory University

Atlanta, GA.

Director, MRC/NHLS/University of the Witwatersrand

Respiratory and Meningeal Pathogens Research Unit

Johannesburg, South Africa

Keith Klugman, MB BCh, PhD, FRCPath (Lond) is currently Professor of Global Health at the Rollins School of Public Health at Emory University, in Atlanta, Georgia, USA. He is also Professor of Medicine in the Division of Infectious Diseases of the School of Medicine at that University and a Visiting Researcher in the Respiratory Diseases Branch of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). He is also the Director of the Respiratory and Meningeal Pathogens Research Unit at the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, South Africa.

He was previously the Director of the South African Institute for Medical Research in South Africa.

He did his undergraduate training and specialization in South Africa, and his post doctoral research at Rockefeller University in New York.

Professor Klugman has served as a member of numerous international committees including those of the World Health Organization in Geneva and the Institute of Medicine in Washington, DC. He currently chairs the Wellcome Trust Tropical Interview Panel in London. He serves as an editor or member of the editorial board of 9 international journals on medicine, infectious diseases and antimicrobial research.

Professor Klugman’s research interests are in determinants of antimicrobial resistance, the clinical relevance of resistance and the development of vaccines for bacterial pathogens – particularly the pneumococcus. He has published more than 300 papers in the scientific literature to date.

Dr. Klugman is the recipient of the John F.W. Herschel Medal, 2011.