About me

Dr. Duane Gubler is an Emeritus Professor and Founding Director of the Emerging Infectious Diseases (EID) Signature Research Programme at Duke-NUS Medical School, Singapore. As founding director, Prof Gubler led the establishment of the EID Programme in 2007 and to institutionalise and advance on the lessons learned from Singapore’s experience with SARS in 2003 and H1N1 influenza in 2009.Thanks to this effort, Singapore’s response to COVID-19 has been lauded by many around the world for the country’s high level of readiness and efficiency. Prof Gubler has spent his career working on insect-borne infectious diseases, in particular dengue and dengue hemorrhagic fever. He has lived in tropical countries for 26 years and has extensive field experience in Asia, the Pacific and Caribbean islands, Central and South America and Africa. Gubler has published more than 350 papers on every aspect of dengue and other vector-borne diseases and has served as a consultant to the World Health Organization and countless other agencies. He was instrumental in developing the Pediatric Dengue Vaccine Initiative.