A/Professor Sumanth Gandra

Sumanth Gandra is an Associate Professor of Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Internal Medicine, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri, USA and Associate Hospital Epidemiologist, Barnes Jewish Hospital, St. Louis, Missouri, USA. He is an adult infectious disease physician, public health researcher and an Associate Professor of Medicine at the Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis.

His time is divided between clinical work that involves direct patient care, infection prevention work at Barnes Jewish Hospital, and clinical and translational research in antimicrobial resistance (AMR). His research focuses on three AMR mitigation areas: infection prevention, low-cost diagnostic development for infectious diseases, and optimizing antibiotic use by healthcare providers, particularly in low-income countries. His research has been funded by the US CDC, WHO and NIH.

He served as a member of the WHO’s antimicrobial working group from 2017 to March 2024 and contributed to the creation of the AWaRe categorization of antibiotics and the WHO’s AWaRe Antibiotic Handbook. He has authored/co-authored 90 peer-reviewed publications.