Teresa Kortz is the Director of the Institute for Global Health Sciences Affiliate Program and the Pediatric Global Health Scholars Pathway at UCSF. She has a PhD in Global Health Sciences, Clinical Research Track, and is an NIH-funded researcher who studies pediatric sepsis etiology, prognostic biomarkers and clinical outcomes in East Africa. Previously, she was a sepsis consultant at the World Health Organization (WHO). She is the current Pediatric Critical Care Lead of the UCSF-WHO Collaborating Center. Kortz is a current member of the Society of Critical Care Medicine Sepsis in Resource-Limited Settings Taskforce and the past co-chair and current scientific co-chair of the Pediatric Acute Lung Injury and Sepsis Investigators (PALISI) Network Global Health subgroup through which she leads collaborative international projects that aim to assess the burden of and resource utilization due to acute, critical pediatric illness in resource-limited settings, including Global PARITY.