Vasee Moorthy
Dr. Vasee Moorthy is an immunologist, a malaria researcher and a vaccine researcher. After five years conducting clinical research in sub-Saharan Africa, two years working as a research funder in Washington DC and a career as a clinical academic at the University of Oxford, he has worked at the World Health Organization since 2008.
Dr. Moorthy is currently a senior adviser in the science division, a corporate division created by Dr. Tedros in 2018 to place science and evidence at the heart of everything WHO does. Dr. Moorthy became engaged in discussions around data sharing policy when he worked at WHO as part of the ebola research response from 2014 to 2016. Since that time, it has been clear that while capacities are advancing rapidly for pathogen genomics, the agreement about modalities for timely, geographically representative and high quality sharing of pathogen genome data was not advancing at the same pace as the technology. This is the background to his coordinating work within WHO at the science to policy interface to advance, through broad consultative processes, international norms and standards around pathogen genome data sharing.
He has a first class honours degree in Medical Sciences from the University of Cambridge, UK, and a clinical medicine degree and PhD from the University of Oxford, UK. He is a specialist internal medicine and subspecialist infectious diseases physician.
Dr. Moorthy is currently a senior adviser in the science division, a corporate division created by Dr. Tedros in 2018 to place science and evidence at the heart of everything WHO does. Dr. Moorthy became engaged in discussions around data sharing policy when he worked at WHO as part of the ebola research response from 2014 to 2016. Since that time, it has been clear that while capacities are advancing rapidly for pathogen genomics, the agreement about modalities for timely, geographically representative and high quality sharing of pathogen genome data was not advancing at the same pace as the technology. This is the background to his coordinating work within WHO at the science to policy interface to advance, through broad consultative processes, international norms and standards around pathogen genome data sharing.
He has a first class honours degree in Medical Sciences from the University of Cambridge, UK, and a clinical medicine degree and PhD from the University of Oxford, UK. He is a specialist internal medicine and subspecialist infectious diseases physician.
