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Appendix C: Biographical Sketches of Workshop Speakers and Moderators
Appendix C: Biographical Sketches of Workshop Speakers and Moderators
Pages 131-148
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and Canada Research Chair in aquatic health sciences, exploring host pathogens relations in their environment.
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Dr. Cameron previously served as the senior director for global health security and biodefense on the White House National Security Council staff, where she was instrumental in developing and launching the Global Health Security Agenda and addressed homeland and national security threats surrounding biosecurity and biosafety, biodefense, emerging infectious disease threats, biological select agents and toxins, dual-use research, and bioterrorism.
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, the 12th American Mathematical Society Distinguished Public Service Award in 2010, the 2007 American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) Mentor award, and the 17th recipient of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM)
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and Vienna (International Atomic Energy Agency, United Nations Industrial Development Organization)
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Global Change Research Program, the Supervisory Board of the One Health Platform, the One Health Commission Council of Advisors, the Center of Excellence for Emerging and Zoonotic Animal Diseases External Advisory Board, the Cosmos Club, and the Advisory Council of the Bridge Collaborative. He served on the Institute of Medicine committee on global surveillance for emerging zoonoses, the NRC committee on the future of veterinary research, the International Standing Advisory Board of the Australian Biosecurity Cooperative Research Centres, and has advised the Director for Medical Preparedness Policy on the White House National Security Staff on global health issues.
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Dr. Fukuda has been a global public health leader in many areas including health security; emerging infectious diseases including seasonal, avian and pandemic influenza, severe acute respiratory syndrome, Middle East respiratory sydrome, and Ebola; antimicrobial resistance; development of the Pandemic Influenza Preparedness Framework; implementation of the International Health Regulations; food safety; and chronic fatigue syndrome.
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Inglesby, M.D., is the director of the Center for Health Security of the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. The Center for Health Security is dedicated to protecting people's health from the consequences of epidemics and disasters.
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Dr. Inglesby's work is internationally recognized in the fields of public health preparedness, pandemic and emerging infectious disease, and prevention of and response to biological threats.
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Prior to coming to Georgetown, she spent 10 years at George Washington University as faculty in the Milken Institute School of Public Health. Her research is focused on global health security, public health preparedness, and health diplomacy.
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His work encompasses extensive peerreviewed research, public outreach, and direct engagement in 11 countries in Asia and Africa through the Global Antibiotic Resistance Partnership. Through his prolific research, active public outreach (including a TED talk that has been widely viewed)
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These tools include FluAid, FluSurge, and FluWorkLoss, designed to help state and local public health officials plan and prepare for catastrophic infectious disease events. They have been downloaded more than 130,000 times and have been used by local, state, national and international public health agencies with jurisdictions exceeding a total of 1 billion people.
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Nyenswah, L.L.B., M.P.H., currently serves as the first director general of the National Public Health Institute of Liberia, an entity that was officially established on January 26, 2017, to prevent and control public health threats, post the 2014–2016 Ebola epidemic, that devastated Liberia's public health system and resulted in more than 11,000 cases with close to 5,000 deaths in Liberia alone. Prior to his appointment as director general, Mr.
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This award was established by Bloomberg Philanthropies, in honor of the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health's centennial celebration, to recognize a student or alumni with the potential to affect public health on a large scale for years to come. He also received the Outstanding Recent Graduate Award from the Johns Hopkins University Alumni Association in 2015, a distinction among more than 20,000 alumni globally.
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. In this role, she served as the designated J&J representative at major forums with international reach, including the Private Sector Delegation to The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria; the Partners Council at the Center for Global Development; and the Health Systems Leapfrogging Project of the World Economic Forum.
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Thompson seeks to effectively integrate economic, social, political, legal, and technological issues into analyses that inform public policy and improve decision making in what she calls the "Age of Risk Management." While on the faculty at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Dr.
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She is a lead investigator of the Global Health Costing Consortium, a Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation–funded project to estimate HIV, TB, and other health service costs globally. Ed Whiting, M.A., is responsible for Wellcome Trust's work to influence policy makers around the world in support of their objectives, for example, that Brexit enables excellent international science to flourish, that they are improving the global capacity to respond to epidemics and antimicrobial resistance, and that Wellcome is supporting scientists and researchers to enable rapid take-up of their work where there is potential for a significant positive impact on health.
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Wolkowski was a principal at the Boston Consulting Group in the Health Care Practice Area. Her experience focused on corporate and commercial strategy within the pharmaceutical industry, driving strategic recommendations across therapeutic areas at the highest levels of client organizations.
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