Janet Diaz

Janet is a specialist in intensive care and pulmonary medicine with rich expertise in clinical medicine, medical education, and quality improvement; committed to promoting the delivery of high-quality, safe, and scalable clinical care to patients around the world during health emergencies.  For the past seven years, she has been working at the World Health Organization as the Lead for Clinical Management and Operations unit in the Health Emergencies Programme.  In this role, she is leading the clinical management readiness and response to high-threat, infectious disease pathogens, and hazards, as well as leading the oxygen scale-up initiative.  She strives to bring together global clinical and technical experts into a rapid, resilient, and quality-focused outbreak response. The unit focuses on developing evidence-based clinical guidance and tools, accelerating clinical research and innovation, hosting the WHO Clinical platform, and providing clinical operational support during emergencies to member states.  She worked as a pulmonary critical care specialist for over 20 years in the San Francisco Bay Area, California USA.  Her work included being an intensivist at California Pacific Medical Center and Contra Costa Regional Hospital, Director of the medical ICU at San Francisco General Hospital, and Assistant Clinical Professor at the University of California San Francisco (UCSF). She completed her internal medicine residency and pulmonary and critical care fellowship at the University of California San Francisco (UCSF) in 2006.