Dr. Samitha Nair studied microbiology at Government Medical College, Thiruvananthapuram affiliated to Kerala University of Health Sciences, Thrissur. She graduated with MD in 2015 and then joined DDRC SRL Diagnostics Pvt Ltd, as a consultant in Clinical Microbiology. She received her Post Graduate Diploma in Infectious Diseases from Apollo Medvarsity affiliated to the University of New South Wales, Australia the following year. She is currently the Consultant Microbiologist at DDRC SRL regional laboratory in Trivandrum and also holds the post of Lab Director. She has published several articles in national and international journals to date.