Coexisting with COVID-19: …No Really, Are We THERE Yet???

Vinay Gupta, MD, MPA, holds several roles in public health, including serving as an Affiliate Assistant Professor of Health Metrics Sciences at the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation of the University of Washington. A pulmonary and critical care medicine physician by training, Dr. Gupta has been caring for critically COVID-19 patients since the early days of the outbreak in Seattle. In his role as Senior Medical Officer of Amazon’s Global COVID response efforts, Dr. Gupta has been leading several clinical workstreams for the organization, including advising on how to scale-up testing and other workplace health procedures to ensure continued functioning of essential services. Additionally, he helped a cross-sectoral team stand up the Seattle Coronavirus Assessment Network, the nation’s first effort to scale home-testing for COVID-19. His background in public health has focused on epidemic preparedness, with relevant roles at the US CDC’s Emerging Infections Program, the World Bank’s Pandemic Emergency Financing Facility, the China CDC, and the Pentagon’s Center for Global Health Engagement. Finally, Dr. Gupta is a deployable critical care physician for the US Air Force Medical Corps Reserves, frequent medical analyst for MSNBC and NBC News, and term member of the Council on Foreign Relations.

Dr. Helen Chu’s research is focused on emerging respiratory viral infections and maternal-fetal immunity against respiratory viruses. Her laboratory research is focused on the study of virologic and immunologic correlates of protection from respiratory viral infections in mothers and infants, conducts clinical trials of vaccine and therapeutic candidates, and performs large-scale community based surveillance studies of respiratory viruses.