Dr. Kalisvar Marimuthu is the head of the Infection Prevention, Control, and Outreach (ICON) division at the National Centre for Infectious Diseases and serves as a Senior Consultant in Infectious Diseases at Tan Tock Seng Hospital, Singapore. He chairs the National Infection Prevention and Control Committee (NIPC) of Singapore. Dr. Marimuthu completed his advanced specialty training in Internal Medicine and Infectious Diseases in Singapore in 2010 and 2013, respectively. He trained as a Senior Research Fellow in the IPC Unit at Geneva University Hospital. Dr. Marimuthu’s research revolves around the transmission dynamics of emerging infectious diseases and multidrug-resistant organisms. His work extends to healthcare-associated infection (HAI) surveillance and prevention strategies, with a special focus on leveraging genomics in infection prevention and control (IPC).