Janet Diaz

Janet is an accomplished specialist in pulmonary and critical care medicine with expertise in clinical medicine and global health.  She is committed to working with medical and public health professionals to deliver quality, safe, and cost-efficient care to critically ill patients in resource-limited regions.  Since 2018, she has worked for as the lead for the Clinical Management Team that is responsible for readiness and response to emerging infectious diseases, such as COVID-19 and Ebola, part of the WHO Health Emergencies Programme.  Her unit is responsible for developing the COVID-19 Living guidelines on Therapeutics and Clinical Management, spearheading the oxygen access scale up initiative and advancing clinical research agenda around emerging infectious diseases.  Previously, she worked at the California Pacific Medical Center, a tertiary referral center in San Francisco.  She received her post-graduate training in Internal, Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine at the University of California San Francisco (UCSF).  From 2006-2010, she served as the Medical Director of the MICU at San Francisco General Hospital and as an Assistant Clinical Professor at UCSF where she was recognized for her leadership in hospital quality, patient safety and clinical teaching.