Progress on Polio Eradication and Outlook for Next Year

Apoorva Mallya is a Senior Program Officer on the Polio team at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. His primary focus is on Afghanistan and Pakistan – the only two countries where wild polio still exists.  Apoorva guides the Gates Foundation’s work in Afghanistan working closely with Rotary, WHO, UNICEF, and many other partners. Apoorva focuses on improving campaigns and delivering vaccines, especially in fragile and conflict settings.  Apoorva has been working on polio eradication since 2008 and has spent extensive time across Africa and Asia including in Nigeria, Chad, DRC, India, Pakistan, and Afghanistan.   Apoorva is an adjunct faculty member at the University of Washington and completed his MBA from Washington University in St. Louis.