Keiji Fukuda

Dr. Keiji Fukuda‏‎ is director and a clinical professor at The University of Hong Kong School of Public Health.

Early life and education
Dr. Fukuda earned his BA from Oberlin College, his MD from the University of Vermont and an MPH from the University of California, Berkeley.

Career
Dr. Fukuda's early career focused on chronic fatigue syndrome. He next served as Chief of Epidemiology in the Influenza Branch of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Centers (CDC). From 2005 to 2016, he worked for the World Health Organization (WHO), serving as Scientist, Coordinator and then Director of the Global Influenza Programme (2005-2008), Assistant Director-General for Health Security and Environment ad interim (2008-2009), Special Adviser on Pandemic Influenza to the Director-General (2009-2010), Assistant Director-General for Health Security (2010-2015) and Special Representative for Antimicrobial Resistance for the Director-General (2015-2016).