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Appendix E: Speaker Biographies
Appendix E: Speaker Biographies
Pages 307-316
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His group has pioneered new strategies for developing reverse genetic approaches for manipulating coronavirus genomes, and developed synthetic genome approaches to reconstruct emerging viruses from in silico sequence information and/or live attenuated virus vaccine design. His group also uses systems biology and systems genetic approaches to identify host susceptibility loci and signaling pathways that regulate severe end-stage lung disease following respiratory virus infection in young and aged animals and human populations.
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Centers for Disease Control and Prevention as a senior public health advisor in 1991. In 1995 he was named the agency's Senior Infectious Diseases advisor, responsible for overseeing the agency's programs in malaria, tuberculosis, antimicrobial resistance, disease surveillance, as well as neglected and emerging infectious diseases.
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, a multidisciplinary network linking health scientists and ministry officials in India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, and Nepal. His current research interests include bat-borne emerging zoonotic viruses such as Nipah virus, Ebola virus, and coronaviruses including SARS CoV and the recently discovered novel CoV from the Arabian peninsula.
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Before this, he was Special Adviser on Pandemic Influenza to the DirectorGeneral, ADG for Health Security and Environment ad interim, Director of the Global Influenza Programme (GIP) , and Coordinator of GIP and Scientist in GIP.
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, regional and global emergencies due to other causes, and international negotiations and activities. His current responsibilities are focused on global health security including food safety, pandemic and epidemic infectious diseases, including antimicrobial drug resistance, global alert and monitoring for health security-related events, and implementation of the International Health Regulations as well as the Pandemic Influenza Preparedness Framework and the Codex Alimentarius.
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This work involves veterinary health and immunology, including studying the innate immune responses to viral diseases under high biocontainment; assessing the ability of immune modulators to improve vaccine efficacy; developing novel therapeutics for zoonotic viruses such as H5N1 avian influenza and Hendra virus; and developing disease-resilient animals. He is an adjunct professor at the Deakin University School of Medicine and has published more than 150 journal articles (6,000 citations)
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This includes extensive field studies of Nipah virus in Malaysia and Bangladesh; using phylogeography and population genetics to understand the dynamics of Nipah; discovering several novel bat pathogens; and building models to predict pathogen diversity and spillover potential in mammals. Olival is a senior scientist on the USAID PREDICT project as part of the modeling team and surveillance coordinator in Thailand and Indonesia.
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He is the lead author of a textbook on spatial epidemiology, author of the chapter on spatial analysis in the key veterinary epidemiology textbook Veterinary Epidemiologic Research as well as the author of the textbook Introduction to Veterinary Epidemiology. He teaches epidemiology at undergraduate and postgraduate levels and has designed and taught international training courses in veterinary epidemiology, risk analysis, and spatial analysis in Europe, North America, Australasia, and Africa.
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Previous positions include Director of the Mountain Gorilla Veterinary Center in Rwanda and Wildlife Veterinarian for the Virginia Department of Game and Inland Fisheries. Derek Smith, M.S., Ph.D., is Professor of Infectious Disease Informatics at Cambridge University in the United Kingdom and is also Director of the Centre for Pathogen Evolution, and Director of WHO Collaborating Centre for Modelling, Evolution, and Control of Emerging Infectious Diseases, both also at Cambridge University.
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Dr. Swayne has served on OIE international committees to update the avian influenza chapters in Terrestrial Animal Health Code and Manual of Standards for Diagnostic Tests and Vaccines.
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