Krutika Kuppalli, M.D., is vice-chair of the IDSA Global Health Committee. She is an affiliated assistant clinical professor at Stanford University School of Medicine and Faculty Fellow in the Center for Innovation in Global Health as well as a 2020 Emerging Leader in Biosecurity Fellow through the Johns Hopkins University Center for Health Security.  She was previously a Fogarty Fellow and conducted research in Southern India to further understand barriers to care in women living with HIV, was the medical director for an Ebola Treatment Unit in Sierra Leone during the West Africa Ebola outbreak, has helped lead the development and implementation of pandemic response preparedness activities in resource limited settings and consulted on the development of therapeutics for emerging pathogens. She has worked in Ethiopia, India, Sierra Leone, Uganda, and Haiti.