Dr. Gagandeep Kang

Dr. Gagandeep Kang is a physician-scientist who has worked on vaccines and public health. Her work particularly focuses on children and infectious enteric disease in India. She was based at the Christian Medical College, Vellore, for three decades. There she built national-level rotavirus and typhoid surveillance networks to estimate disease burden, test vaccines and inform policy. She is now the Director of the Global Health Team at Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. Here she is responsible for the enterics, diagnostics, epidemiology and genomics portfolios.