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Abraar Karan, MD MS MPH DTM&H, is an Instructor in the Division of Infectious Diseases and Geographic Medicine at Stanford University. He holds affiliations with the Center for Innovation in Global Health, King Center on Global Development, and Woods Institute for the Environment. His work includes responding to outbreaks like the 2020 Massachusetts Covid-19 outbreak and the 2022-23 Los Angeles Monkeypox outbreak. He contributed to the WHO’s Independent Panel on Pandemic Preparedness and Response and advised the Biden-Harris campaign on school-based pandemic measures. Current research includes cluster-randomized trials on air filtration in low-income housing, filovirus exposure detection in Kenya, and H5N1 seroprevalence studies in California farmworkers.
- Education: MD from UCLA, MPH from Harvard, MS in Epidemiology from Stanford, DTM&H from London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, BA in Political Science from Yale
- Residency: Brigham and Women's Hospital/Harvard in Global Health Equity
Research interests focus on pandemic preparedness, viral surveillance, global health equity, and zoonotic diseases. His studies combine clinical, epidemiological, and policy approaches to address health disparities and pandemic responses. He has co-authored over 180 publications and founded Longsleeve Insect Repellent, winner of Harvard Business School’s New Venture Competition (2018).
Teaching includes roles as a Teaching Assistant for Infectious Disease Epidemiology and Global Health Research courses at Stanford. Awards include the Global Health Seed Grant (2025), Council on Foreign Relations Term Membership (2025), and multiple fellowships in biosecurity and public health. His work spans academic research, policy advocacy, and entrepreneurial ventures in health innovation.
