Keith Klugman, M.D.
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Keith Klugman is the William H. Foege Chair of Global Health in the Hubert Department of Global Health at the Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University, in Atlanta, Georgia. He is also a Professor of Medicine in the Division of Infectious Diseases of the School of Medicine at Emory, and a Visiting Researcher in the Respiratory Diseases Branch of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). He is the co-Director of the Respiratory and Meningeal Pathogens Research Unit of the University of the Witwatersrand, the Medical Research Council and the National Institute for Communicable Diseases in Johannesburg, South Africa.

Professor Klugman is the Treasurer of the Executive Committee of the International Society of Infectious Diseases and Chair of the International Board of the American Society for Microbiology, the largest single life science Society with over 42, 000 members worldwide. The umbrella organization of all national microbiology societies is the International Union of Microbiological Societies, of which Professor Klugman is currently Vice Chair. He has chaired expert committees for the World Health Organization in Geneva and the Wellcome Trust in London. He serves as an editor or member of the editorial board of 8 international journals on medicine, infectious diseases and antimicrobials.

Professor Klugman’s primary research interests are in antibiotics, antimicrobial resistance and vaccines for bacterial pathogens – particularly the pneumococcus. He has published more than 350 papers on these subjects to date.