Dr. Krishna Udayakumar is Chief Global Strategist for Duke University, leading Duke’s global strategy and innovation activities and working closely with international partners to define how Duke is engaging and investing in opportunities across the globe.
He is the founding Director of the Duke Global Health Innovation Center, focused on generating deeper evidence and support for the study, scaling, and adaptation of global health innovations and policy reforms. He is also Executive Director of Innovations in Healthcare, a non-profit co-founded by Duke, McKinsey & Company, and the World Economic Forum to curate and scale the impact of transformative health solutions around the world.
At Duke University, Dr. Udayakumar holds the rank of Professor of Global Health and holds a secondary faculty appointment in Medicine. He is also a core faculty member of the Duke-Margolis Institute for Health Policy.
Born in Bangalore, India, Dr. Udayakumar spent his childhood in Virginia and is a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of the University of Virginia, where he earned a bachelor’s degree with distinction in interdisciplinary studies. He received both an MD and an MBA from Duke University, completed his residency in internal medicine at Duke and served as Assistant Chief Resident at the Durham VA Medical Center.
