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Prabhu Gounder, MD, MPH

Medical Epidemiologist
Los Angeles County DPH
Los Angeles, California, United States

Dr. Prabhu Gounder is a medical epidemiologist with the Los Angeles County Department of Public Health where he has conducted surveillance and outbreak investigations for viral hepatitis, healthcare associated infections, and respiratory diseases including influenza. During the COVID-19 pandemic response, Dr. Gounder led efforts to prevent and control COVID-19 in skilled-nursing facilities and non-case based surveillance activities, including genomic surveillance and wastewater surveillance.

Prior to joining LA County in 2017, Dr. Gounder served for 7 years as a medical officer with the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. He was first assigned to the New York City Department of Health and then to CDC’s Arctic Investigations Program in Anchorage, Alaska. His research while in Alaska focused on viral hepatitis, vaccine preventable diseases, and health disparities in Alaska Native people.

Dr. Gounder is a Fellow of the American College of Physicians and maintains clinical privileges at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles.

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