Pratima Raghunathan, PhD, MPH is an infectious disease epidemiologist and global health leader. She has guided multidisciplinary scientific teams, outbreak responses, and public health programs in the US, Rwanda, Cameroon, Guinea, Democratic Republic of the Congo, and Burkina Faso. Within CDC’s Division of Global HIV/AIDS, she provided strategic oversight to CDC’s HIV programs in 37 countries, and helped manage 1200 CDC staff implementing the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief in Africa, Asia, and the Americas. Dr. Raghunathan directed CDC’s scientific contributions and helped Emory University launch the Gates Foundation’s Child Health and Mortality Prevention Surveillance Network in Africa and Asia. With CDC’s Global Immunization Division, she fostered multiagency coalitions that changed global policies to promote universal rubella vaccination access for >20 million children annually. Her teams are actively advising countries on measles, rubella, cholera, and hepatitis B immunizations for >200 million children in 2025-2026. A member of the WHO African Regional Immunization Technical Advisory Group, she holds a PhD in biochemistry from University of California, San Francisco, an MPH from University of California, Berkeley, and a BS in biochemistry from Yale.
Pratima Raghunathan
Global Health and Emergency Response Leader, Formerly with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
