Dr. Shurendar Selva Kumar Assistant Professor
Duke-NUS Centre for Outbreak Preparednes

Bio

Dr Shurendar Selva Kumar (Shuren) is a medical doctor with more than a decade of experience across clinical medicine, public health, and disease surveillance. He began his career as a physician in Malaysia before moving into outbreak surveillance at the Malaysia Ministry of Health, where he coordinated COVID-19 workforce mobilisation. He then served as a noncommunicable disease consultant with the World Health Organization in Geneva and Malaysia, and led a public–private tuberculosis video-observed therapy programme. As a Chevening Scholar, he completed postgraduate training at Imperial College London. Shuren is an Assistant Professor at the Duke-NUS Centre for Outbreak Preparedness (COP), Singapore, which serves as secretariat to the Asia Pathogen Genomics Initiative (Asia PGI) - a regional network advancing pathogen genomic surveillance. His work spans consortium coordination, implementation research, and market-shaping initiatives to improve access to and affordability of sequencing technologies for lower- and middle-income countries across South and Southeast Asia. His research focuses on integrating pathogen genomic surveillance into national health systems and drug-resistant tuberculosis diagnostics.