Azim Premji University Public Lecture Series to Feature Physician-Scientist Gagandeep Kang
Kang has extensively worked on vaccines and public health, especially focussed on children and infectious diseases in India.
Microbiologist and Virologist Gagandeep Kang will feature in the Azim Premji University public lecture series in an event to be held in Bengaluru on August 12.
Kang will speak on “Outsmarting Outbreaks: The Future of Contagion”, and how India needs to be prepared to deal with new infectious diseases that could emerge with climate change.
Physician-scientist Kang has worked on vaccines and public health, particularly focused on children and enteric infectious disease in India. Based at the Christian Medical College, Vellore for three decades, she built national rotavirus and typhoid surveillance networks to estimate disease burden, test vaccines and inform policy. She is now a Director in the Global Health team at the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, responsible for the enterics, diagnostics, epidemiology and genomics portfolio.
She is the first Indian woman to be elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society and co-author of the bestseller: Till We Win: India’s Fight Against The COVID-19 Pandemic.
The lecture series aims at building awareness and encouraging discourse on contemporary issues and matters of public interest.
Event Details
Date: 12 Aug 2024
Time: 6.30−8 PM
Venue: Bangalore International Centre (BIC)
About Azim Premji University
Azim Premji University was established under the Azim Premji University Act 2010 of the Government of Karnataka. Azim Premji Foundation, the sponsoring body set up the University as a fully philanthropic and not-for-profit entity, with a clear social purpose of contributing to the realisation of a just, equitable, humane and sustainable society.
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