Pratima L. Raghunathan

Pratima L. Raghunathan has led global infectious disease control programs, outbreak responses, and scientific initiatives in multiple countries over two decades as an epidemiologist with CDC. She currently serves as Accelerated Disease Control Branch Chief in CDC’s Global Immunization Division.  

Women in lavender, blue, and burgundy burkas who are part of an immunization team write a message on the wall of a stone house during a vaccination campaign in Kandahar, Afghanistan on January 28, 2020.
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Measles is Raging In Afghanistan

by Emaad Hassan, S. Deblina Datta, Pratima L. Raghunathan, James L. Goodson

A nationwide vaccination campaign is urgently needed, say CDC measles experts