Krishna Udayakumar

Associate Professor of Global Health and Medicine Duke Medicine

Dr. Krishna Udayakumar leads multiple initiatives at Duke in the rapidly evolving fields of health innovation and globalization of healthcare. As Head of Global Innovation for Duke Medicine, he is responsible for the development and implementation of global strategy as well as global business development for Duke Medicine, across healthcare delivery, biomedical sciences research, and health professions education and training.

Dr. Udayakumar has also led the International Partnership for Innovative Healthcare Delivery (IPIHD), a non-profit co-founded by Duke Medicine, McKinsey & Company, and the World Economic Forum, since its inception in 2011. As Executive Director, he leads all aspects of IPIHD's work to support the scale and replication of transformative health solutions globally.

He also serves as Co-Principal Investigator for the Social Entrepreneurship Accelerator at Duke (SEAD), a Duke-wide partnership with USAID that seeks to create an integrated global health social entrepreneurship hub for diverse stakeholders across the globe. In addition, he continues to be a key driver of broader health innovation efforts at Duke, serving as Director of the Center for Health Delivery Science within the Duke Institute for Health Innovation.

At Duke University, Dr. Udayakumar holds the rank of Associate Professor of Global Health and Medicine, and also holds a faculty appointment at Duke-NUS Graduate Medical School Singapore. His work has been published in leading academic journals such as the New England Journal of Medicine, Health Affairs, and Academic Medicine.