Abraar Karan, MD MS MPH DTM&H

Postdoctoral Medical Fellow, Infectious Diseases Fellow in Medicine - Med/Infectious Diseases

Bio

I am an infectious disease fellow and post-doctoral researcher in the Division of Infectious Diseases and Geographic Medicine, the Luby Lab, the Center for Innovation in Global Health, the King Center on Global Development, and the Woods Institute for the Environment. I worked on the Covid19 outbreak for the Massachusetts Department of Public Health in 2020, and the Monkeypox outbreak for the Los Angeles County Department of Public Health in 2022-23. I also served on the WHO-commissioned Independent Panel on Pandemic Preparedness and Response's research team investigating early global spread of Covid19, and helped with policy-writing for the Biden-Harris campaign on reducing Covid19 in schools. I am currently the Principal Investigator of the following studies: a cluster-randomized controlled trial investigating whether air filtration and ventilation can reduce spread of Covid19 in low-income homes in the Bay Area (https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT05777720); piloting a low-cost rural surveillance system for detecting spillover of zoonotic diseases in Western Kenya.

I completed my internal medicine residency at the Brigham and Women's Hospital/Harvard Medical School in the Global Health Equity program, and have been working in global health since 2008. I co-edited the book, "Protecting the Health of the Poor" (December 2015, Bloomsbury Publishing, https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/protecting-the-health-of-the-poor-9781783605521/); and co-founded Longsleeve insect repellent, winner of the 2018 Harvard Business School New Venture Competition and finalist in the 2019 Harvard President's Challenge. Media/press coverage has included NBC, ABC, BBC, PBS, CBS, CNN, MSNBC, Fox News, Washington Post, New York Times, SF Chronicle, Bloomberg, Boston Globe, ProPublica, WSJ, TIME, Politico, CBC News, Democracy Now, NPR, ESPN, The Atlantic, The Hill, Business Insider, Vice, Mother Jones, Vox, Forbes, Slate, STAT News, MTV News, Mother Jones, Science Friday, TMZ.

For a full list of publications, please see "Publications" tab. For full list of press/media interviews, please see "Media" link.

Teaching Experience:
Teaching Assistant-- Epi 231, Infectious Disease Epidemology (Winter 2024)
Teaching Assistant-- Epi 237, Practical Approaches to Global Health Research (Autumn 2024)

Clinical Focus

Infectious Diseases
Emerging Pathogens
Zoonotic Infections
One Health
Biosecurity
Global Health
Fellow

Honors & Awards

Emerging Leaders in Biosecurity Initiative (ELBI) Fellow, Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security (2024)
Global Development Research Grant Awardee, Stanford King Center on Global Development (2024)
Ignite Fellow, Stanford Graduate School of Business (2024)
Travel Award (Symposium on Tropical & Emerging Infectious Diseases), UTMB Galveston (2024)
Global Infectious Disease Epidemiology Training Grant 2T32AI52073-16A1, Stanford University (2023-2024)
Rx One Health Field Program, UC Davis, One Health Institute (2023)
Top Reviewer, Annals of Internal Medicine (2023)
Applied Genomics in Infectious Diseases Training Grant 2T32AI7502-26, Stanford University (2022-2023)
Global Health Seed Grant Winner, Stanford Center for Innovation in Global Health (2022)
ID Week Travel Award, Infectious Diseases Society of America (2022)
K. Frank Austen Resident Research Award for Disruption of Scientific Thinking, Brigham and Women's Hospital (2021)
40 Under 40, National Minority Quality Forum (2020)
50 Experts to Trust in a Pandemic, Medium (2020)
40 Under 40, Medtech Boston Healthcare Innovators (2018)
Global Health Equity Residency, Brigham and Women's Hospital (2018)
New Venture Competition Winner (Longsleeve Insect Repellent), Harvard Business School (2018)
STAT Wunderkind, STAT News (2018)
Inaugural Global Health Alumni Leadership Award, Unite for Sight (2017)
AMA Journal of Ethics Fellowship, American Medical Association (2016, 2019)
Aesculapius Student Service Award, UCLA David Geffen School of Medicine (2016)
FASPE Fellow, Fellowship at Auschwitz for the Study of Professional Ethics (2016)
Student Body President; Commencement Speaker, UCLA David Geffen School of Medicine (2016)
Journalism Scholar; Distinction in the Major, Yale University (2011)

Professional Education

MS, Epidemiology, Stanford University
Fellowship, Infectious Diseases, Stanford University
Residency, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School
Internship, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School
DTM&H, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine
MPH, Health Policy, Harvard School of Public Health
MD, University of California, Los Angeles
BA, Political Science, Yale University

All Publications

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