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Appendix F: Speaker Biographies
Pages 113-120

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... Bausch has extensive experience in sub-Saharan Africa, Latin America, and Asia combating pathogens, such as Ebola and Lassa viruses, hantavirus, and severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus. He serves as a frequent consultant for the World Health Organization (WHO)
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From page 114...
... In 1993 he was appointed Chairman of the National Advisory Committee Blood (Arbeitskreis Blut) of the German Federal Ministry of Health, which advises the federal government on aspects of infection safety and efficient use of blood products.
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From page 115...
... Fair has traveled the world looking for pathogenic viruses in their endemic settings, and is considered an expert in emerging infectious diseases in sub-Saharan African and public health program implementation. Heinz Feldmann, M.D., Ph.D., is chief of the Rocky Mountain Laboratories Laboratory of Virology and Chief Scientist of the RML biosafety level (BSL)
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From page 116...
... , and regional and global emergencies due to multiple causes. He has been extensively involved in international negotiations, and his current responsibilities encompass global health security–related issues, such as food safety, pandemic and epidemic infectious diseases, antimicrobial drug resistance, global alert and monitoring, implementation of the International Health Regulations, the Pandemic Influenza Preparedness Framework, and the Codex Alimentarius.
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... Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases, where he served in several roles, including Deputy Commander (equivalent to Chief Operations Officer) , Deputy Chief of the Virology Division, and Chief of the Medical Division.
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... Bruce S Ribner, M.D., M.P.H., is a Professor of Medicine in Infectious Diseases at the Emory University School of Medicine, and Medical Director of the Emory University Hospital Serious Communicable Diseases Unit.
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... From 1994 to 2004, he served as Regional Virologist for the World Health Organization (WHO) Africa Region, where he established the African Regional Polio Laboratory Network that provided laboratory diagnostic support for polio eradication and became the forerunner of regional diagnostic laboratory networks for other diseases.
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... Recent accomplishments include the discovery of the Egyptian fruit bat (Rousettus aegyptiacus) , the only known filovirus reservoir, as a natural reservoir for Marburg virus, and the discovery of Bundibugyo Ebolavirus, the newest member of the Ebolavirus genus.
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