Pinaki PANIGRAHI, MD, PhD, FIDSA

Professor of Epidemiology and Pediatrics
University of Nebraska Medical Center, College of Public Health, USA

Dr. Panigrahi, a Pediatric Infectious Disease specialist served as the Director of International affairs at the President’s office at University of Maryland where he spent 25 years before coming to University of Nebraska Medical Center as the founding Director of the Center for Global Health and Development. Starting his career with a Shannon Award from the NIH Director’s office and a Young Investigator award from the Eastern Society for Pediatric Research for his seminal work in neonatal microbiota in Necrotizing Enterocolitis, Dr. Panigrahi has contributed to childhood diseases that affect populations worldwide. He has directed many health research projects in the U.S. and South Asia funded by NIH, major foundations, and various funding agencies in the U.S., U.K, and India with a total funding of over $15 M. He studies microbiota and impact of probiotics and environmental exposures on health of infants and children utilizing large cohorts for longitudinal assessments. Dr. Panigrahi was instrumental in establishing the Asian Institute of Public Health in Odisha, now a state university and center of excellence in India engaged in laboratory, hospital-, and population-based surveillance and clinical research, public health education, and service with collaborating faculty from USA, UK, and Canada.