Dr. Maria Van Kerkhove is an American infectious diseases epidemiologist who is currently working on the COVOID-19. She specializes in emerging infectious diseases. She has a background in the high threat pathogens.
She works on the World Health Organization (WHO). More precisely, on the Health Emergencies Program at the WHO.
Know more about Dr. Maria Van Kerkhove from the details below.
| Name | Dr. Maria Van Kerkhove |
| Birthday | 20th February |
| Age | 43 years |
| Gender | Female |
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| Nationality | American |
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| Profession | Epidemiologist, Scientist |
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| Children | 2 sons |
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| Education | Ph.D. in infectious disease epidemiology |
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Thanks for the interesting discussion @andersoncooper & @drsanjaygupta on @CNN
Til next week…#COVID19 https://t.co/AeR1TDQH3t
— Maria Van Kerkhove (@mvankerkhove) May 8, 2020
Interesting Facts about Dr. Maria Van Kerkhove
- Dr. Maria was born on the year 1977 as mentioned on her Wikipedia. Her birthday is on the 20th day of February.
- She was born and grew up in New Hartford, New York, United States. Many details about her early life are not available.
- Talking about her academics, she did her B.S in biological sciences from Cornell University and completed in the year 1999. After that, in 2000, from Stanford University School of Medicine, she received M.S. in epidemiology.
- In the year 2009, she completed her doctorate from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine and achieved a Ph.D. in infectious disease epidemiology.
- She did her thesis on Cambodia on avian flu.
- She has not revealed the details about her personal life. However, we do know that she is married and has two sons.
- The details about her net worth and earnings are not available.
- From the year 2017, she is working as the Scientist, Technical Lead MERS-CoV at WHO at Geneva, Switzerland.
- She has also worked as the lecturer at the Imperial College London.
- During this Coronavirus outbreak, she appears in the regular press and gives the update of the work going on against COVOID-19 as part of her work. She gives the answers about the common questions related to the COVOID-19.
- She also spends two weeks in China to understand more about the COVOID-19.
- She is very active on Twitter and updates everything about her works.