Rajlakshmi Viswanathan has more than 15 years experience in neonatal, congenital infections, vaccine preventable disease and AMR. She has a passion for setting up multi-center studies and laboratory networks and has worked in several such networks including studies on inherited metabolic disorders, neonatal sepsis, virus research laboratories, congenital rubella syndrome and, most recently, pertussis. Recently she has taken up studies on AMR at the animal human interface, which often constitutes an unmeasured burden. She currently holds a Fellowship in Clinical & Public Health from the DBT Wellcome India Alliance and has published widely in international journals of repute.