Duane J. Gubler

Duane J. Gubler is an Emeritus Professor and founding director of the Signature Research Program in Emerging Infectious Diseases at Duke-NUS Medical School in Singapore, where he has focused his career on insect-borne infectious diseases, particularly dengue and dengue hemorrhagic fever.[1][2] He earned a D.Sc. from Johns Hopkins University in 1969 and has extensive field experience in tropical regions across Asia, the Pacific, Caribbean, Central and South America, and Africa, publishing over 300 papers on vector-borne diseases.[1][5] Gubler has served as a consultant to the World Health Organization and was instrumental in developing the Pediatric Dengue Vaccine Initiative, and he holds adjunct positions at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and Duke University.[2][3]