Karl Krupp, MSc, PhD is an Assistant Professor in Division of Public Health Practice Translational Research in the Mel Enid Zuckerman College of Public Health at the University of Arizona. He has been involved in public health interventions and research among at-risk disadvantaged communities in the U.S. and India since 2002. His earliest work focused on childhood asthma among African Americans in San Francisco public housing. For the last 15 years he has been working in India on the social determinants of health and noncommunicable diseases. His research on HIV prevention, maternal health, primary and secondary prevention of cervical cancer, vaccine hesitancy, and cardiovascular disease has been documented in more than 91 peer-reviewed publications including AIDS, BMJ, Vaccine, International Journal of Cardiology, Journal of Medical Microbiology, BMC Infectious Disease, Journal of Adolescent Health, Preventive Medicine, and many others. Dr Krupco-founded Public Health Research Institute of India PHRII) a community-based organization in Mysore, India, and has served as Program Director Salary Donated) since 2006. PHRII is recognized as a Scientific and Industrial Research Organization by the Government of India and is now an NIH training and research site that has hosted more than 50 US students and researchers from across the country. Dr. Krupholds a bachelor’s degree in Communications from the University of Minnesota, a master’s degree in Public Health from London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine at London University, and a PhD in Public Health from Florida International University in Miami. His PhD is dissertation research was entitled “Prevalence and Correlates of Coronary Heart Disease in Slum-Dwelling South Indian Women” and was funded by the NIH National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute and the Fogarty International Center. Since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic in January 2020, Dr Kruphas been working on the psychological antecedents of COVID-19 vaccine intentions among adults in Arizona, and COVID-19 pandemic resilience in border dwelling Mexican origin families funded by the Research Program on Migration and Health at the University of California, Berkeley.