What else the pandemic taught us

Cynthia Whitney is a Professor at Emory University and the Principal Investigator and Executive Director of the Child Health and Mortality Prevention Surveillance (CHAMPS) programme, a large multicounty programme operating in 7 countries that generates accurate information on causes of child mortality using cutting edge diagnostic techniques; CHAMPS is based in the Emory Global Health Institute in Atlanta, Georgia, USA. Previously, she was Chief of the Respiratory Diseases Branch in the Division of Bacterial Diseases, National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases and worked for 25 years at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Cynthia's expertise includes extensive work on pneumococcal disease, pneumonia, antimicrobial resistance, vaccination policy and effectiveness evaluations, disease surveillance, and outbreak investigations. She has over 200 publications focusing on public health issues in the U.S. and in developing country settings.