Padmini Srikantiah

Padmini is a Senior Program Officer in Global Health at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. In her role, she serves as the RSV initiative lead, focused on developing effective interventions to prevent RSV related mortality in young infants. She also serves as the lead for the foundation’s cross-cutting Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR) strategy, which is focused on preventing drug resistant infections in the most vulnerable populations in low and middle-income countries. In the current context of the COVID-19 pandemic, she is also leading the foundation’s engagement on COVID-19 in South Asia (Bangladesh, Nepal, and Indonesia). Prior to joining the foundation, Padmini was with the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention as a Senior Medical Epidemiologist, where she led CDC’s AMR platform in India and also served as the CDC-India lead for infectious disease surveillance. Padmini has previously served as medical officer for HIV treatment in the WHO South East Asia Regional Office where she led the HIV Drug Resistance Surveillance and Prevention program and provided extensive technical assistance on antiretroviral therapy scale-up and evaluation. She trained in internal medicine at Cornell University Medical Center and infectious diseases at the University of California, San Francisco, served in the Epidemic Intelligence Service at CDC in the Foodborne & Diarrheal Diseases Branch, and received an MPH in epidemiology at the University of California, Berkeley.