Geeta Swamy

Geeta Krishna Swamy (born January 15, 1971) is an American OBGYN. She is a professor of obstetrics and gynecology at Duke University and Associate Vice President for Research and Vice Dean for Scientific Integrity.

Early life and education Swamy was born on January 15, 1971, in Griffin, Georgia, USA. She graduated from Lumberton Senior High School in 1989 and enrolled in the UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health for her Bachelor of Science in Public Health and Biostatistics.

Career Upon completing her fellowship in Maternal-Fetal Medicine, Swamy then joined Duke ObGyn as an assistant professor in 2004. Early into her career at Duke, Swamy volunteered on the Institutional Review Board (IRB), which oversees all human research studies at Duke, and later led the board. As a result of her research, she was the recipient of the 2008 National Institutes of Health (NIH) Young Investigator Award for Perinatal Research and received special recognition from the NIH National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) for her research work during the 2009 swine flu pandemic. The following year, Swamy was named Vice Dean and Associate Vice Provost for Scientific Integrity and selected as a Fellow for the Drexel University College of Medicine Hedwig van Ameringen Executive Leadership in Academic Medicine Program for Women.

During the COVID-19 pandemic, Swamy was an investigator in numerous vaccine trials at Duke. Her roles include serving as a co-investigator for the COVID-19 vaccine trial, as Chair of the Independent Data Monitoring Committee for GlaxoSmithKline trials involving novel RSV vaccine in pregnant women, and as Chair of the Independent Data Monitoring Committee for Pfizer trials involving novel GBS vaccine in pregnant women. She also published scholarly articles studying the effects the COVID-19 vaccines had on pregnant women. On December 15, 2020, she was one of the first people to receive the vaccine.