Yukari C Manabe

Dr. Yuka Manabe is Director of the Johns Hopkins Center for Innovative Diagnostics for Infectious Diseases and an infectious disease clinician researcher in the Department of Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases within the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. She also holds joint appointments in the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health Departments of International Health and Molecular Microbiology and Immunology. As the Associate Director of Global Health Research and Innovation within the Johns Hopkins Center for Global Health, she is dedicated to global research capacity building and fostering collaborative research innovation and equity. Her research has focused on infectious disease diagnostics for STI’s, HIV, tuberculosis, and respiratory viruses (COVID-19, influenza) and their impact on patient-centered outcomes. The Center has pioneered STI mail-in self-collection with I Want The Kit, a public health service. She is dedicated to accelerating infectious disease diagnostic development, innovation, and access to increase diagnostic certainty and targeted treatment to improve global health. Dr. Manabe is an author of more than 300 peer-reviewed publications. She obtained her undergraduate degree from Yale University and her MD from Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons. She joined the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine faculty in 1999 after completing her residency in internal medicine and fellowship in infectious diseases at Johns Hopkins Hospital. From 2007-2012, she was seconded to the Infectious Diseases Institute where she was the Head of Research and still holds an honorary appointment at Makerere University College of Health Sciences in Uganda.

Yukari C Manabe, MD