Chris Karp
Immunologist, infectious diseases specialist and internist
Director of Global Health Discovery & Translational Sciences, Gates Foundation
About the Speaker
Chris Karp serves as director of Discovery & Translational Sciences at the Gates Foundation, where he leads the team focused on catalyzing innovation for the discovery and translation of transformative solutions to global health and development inequities. An immunologist, infectious diseases specialist and internist, Chris joined the foundation in 2012 as deputy director, Vaccines & Host-Pathogen Biology on the Global Health Discovery & Translational Sciences team.
Prior to his work at the foundation, Karp held academic appointments in the Departments of Medicine and Molecular Microbiology & Immunology at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, and earlier he was founder and Esiason/Bell Professor of Pediatrics for the Division of Molecular Immunology at Cincinnati Children’s.
His scientific research has centered on uncovering mechanisms underlying the regulation and dysregulation of inflammatory responses in infectious, allergic and genetic diseases — with a particular focus on children’s health.
He completed medical training at Brown University and Georgetown University, followed by an NRSA fellowship in the Laboratory of Parasitic Diseases at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, and an infectious diseases fellowship at Johns Hopkins.
In his presentation, "Demystifying the Gates Foundation," he will share his perspectives on how high-impact scientific innovation, global partnerships, and translational pathways converge in the work of the foundation — and what this means for children’s health, equity and our collective future.
Accreditation
In support of improving patient care, Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing (ANCC), to provide continuing education for the healthcare team.
Cincinnati Children’s designates the live activity for a maximum of 1.0 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.