Karishma Krishna Kurup is a research fellow in Chatham House’s Centre for Universal Health, working on Health Security and One Health. Her expertise lies in infectious diseases, health systems, health technology assessment and disaster management.
She has worked in various positions of increasing responsibility across India in government and private institutions, and has mentored and trained students in epidemiology, basic research methodology, outbreak investigations, evaluation of surveillance systems and government programmes.
She is a medical doctor with a master’s degree in epidemiology and health systems from the National Institute of Epidemiology, Indian Council of Medical Research, and a diploma in tropical and humanitarian medicine from the Royal College of Physicians in London.
Emma Ross is a senior research fellow at Chatham House’s Centre for Universal Health, heading the Global Health Programme’s health security work-stream. She has conducted research on a broad range of health security issues from data-sharing in public health and considerations for sustainable laboratories, to command and control of Ebola in West Africa and global solidarity during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Up to 2022, she also served for more than a decade as the managing editor of the Control of Communicable Diseases Manual. Prior to this, Emma led the news operation at WHO headquarters, after serving as a long-time medical correspondent for Associated Press. She holds a master’s degree in journalism from Northwestern University in the US.
Scott Chiossi is a technical officer at WHO headquarters in Geneva and a former research analyst at the Centre for Universal Health, where he worked on health security and One Health projects. He conducted research and policy development activities related to outbreak response, prevention and control of zoonotic diseases, and accelerating access to diagnostics.
Scott previously worked for the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control on emergency preparedness and epidemic intelligence. He contributed to COVID-19 rapid risk assessments and technical reports, developed a preparedness check-list and conducted event-based surveillance.
