Kanta Subbarao

Kanta Subbarao is an Indian virologist, molecular geneticist, and physician-scientist. She is director of the World Health Organization collaborating centre for reference and research on influenza. Subbarao is also a professor at the Doherty Institute.

Life Subbarao received a M.B.B.S. from Christian Medical College Vellore and a M.P. H. in epidemiology from the University of Oklahoma.

She is a virologist, physician-scientist, and molecular geneticist. In 2016, she joined World Health Organization collaborating centre for reference and research on influenza. In 2024, she joined Université Laval in Canada through a Canada Excellence Research Chair in Biology and Control of Zoonotic and Pandemic Respiratory Viruses . She received in 2025 the Edward Jenner Award from the Vaccine Congress .