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Appendix C: Speaker and Moderator Biographies
Pages 137-162

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... Dr. Amuasi is also Group Leader of the Global Health and Infectious Diseases Research Group at the Kumasi Center for C ­ ollaborative Research in Tropical Medicine (KCCR)
From page 138...
... Dr. Amuasi also co-chairs the Lancet One Health Commission and is at the forefront of global efforts toward addressing emerging and re-emerging infectious diseases using a One Health approach.
From page 139...
... He is an associate editor for Emerging Infectious Diseases and past president of the Society for Vector Ecology and served as deputy incident manager for CDC's Zika virus outbreak response. He also
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... He has authored more than 70 peer-reviewed publications and textbook chapters. His major areas of interest include molecular epidemiology of infectious diseases, infectious diseases surveillance and outbreak investigation, and national programs in food safety.
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... He is currently the president of the Wildlife Disease Association, the Wildlife Population Health specialty chair for the European College of Zoological Medicine, and member of the IUCN Species Survival Commission–Wildlife Health Specialist Group. In 2020, Norway appointed Dr.
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... , South East Asia Regional Office in New Delhi, India, where he coordinates the Global Outbreak Alert and Response Network in the region. He was previously at the Department of Epidemiology, School of Veterinary Medicine, University of Surrey (UK)
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... in population biology/quantitative methods at the University of Kansas and his post-doctoral fellowship in the Department of Immunology & Infectious Diseases at the Johns Hopkins School of Public Health, where he worked on characterizing the transmission systems and health consequences of hantaviruses. The group was responsible for establishing the tight associations of reservoir species and viruses, as well as d ­ eveloping diagnostic methods and performing human population surveys of viral spillover.
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... He is a clinical expert on issues related to food safety and a key leader in helping the agency respond to food safety outbreak and recall events. As chief medical officer for the foods program, Dr.
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... Eva Harris, Ph.D., is a professor in the Division of Infectious Diseases in the School of Public Health and director of the Center for Global ­Public Health at the University of California, Berkeley. She has developed a multidisciplinary approach to study the molecular virology, p ­ athogenesis, immunology, epidemiology, clinical aspects, and control of dengue, Zika, and chikungunya, the most prevalent mosquito-borne viral diseases in
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... She is also directing a study of Zika in infants and pregnancy in Nicaragua and evaluating a number of Zika diagnostic tests with her team in Nicaragua. In 1997, she received a MacArthur Award for work over the previous 10 years developing programs to build scientific capacity in developing countries to address public health and infectious disease issues.
From page 147...
... Kate Huebner, V.M.D., M.S., is a veterinary medical officer within the Office of Surveillance and Compliance at the U.S. Food and Drug Administration's Center for Veterinary Medicine.
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... In 2006, she published "Confronting Zoonoses, Linking Human and Veterinary Medicine" in the CDC j­ournal Emerging Infectious Diseases, which helped launch the One Health Initiative (http://www.onehealthinitiative.com) , a global effort to promote the One Health concept that human, animal, and environmental/­ ecosystem health are linked.
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... Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's Office of Infectious Diseases Board of Scientific Counselors. Board certified in both internal medicine and infectious diseases, he holds faculty appointments at USUHS and the University of Maryland, and is a fellow of the American College of Physicians, the Infectious Diseases Society of America, and the American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene.
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... He is a past vice-chair of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine's Forum on Microbial Threats to Health and has been awarded both the Global One Health Award presented in 2013 by the World Small Animal Veterinary Medical Association and the OIE Meritori ous Award for his distinguished global career in animal and public health in 2019. His interests and expertise are in emerging zoonoses, antimicrobial resistance, global health, One Health, and leadership development.
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... Her work focuses on assessing and optimizing One Health strategies, including the use of economic analyses to identify cost-effective options to reduce the threat and impact of emerging infectious diseases. She was a lead author of the World Bank Operational Framework for Strengthening Human, Animal and Environmental Public Health Systems at their Interface ("One Health Operational Framework")
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... Dr. Mazet specializes in emerging infectious diseases and wildlife epidemiology, and as director of OHI, focuses on global health problem solving.
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... at the University of California, Davis, in 2004 and an internship in 2006, Dr. McNeil practiced in small animal emergency medicine and became a veterinary medical officer with the National Veterinary Response Team.
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... to develop a public health workforce with the technical skills and cross-sectoral capacity to readily adapt and respond to emerging infectious disease threats in eight African countries. He has also worked as an international consultant with the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations to assess One Health operationalization gaps in the Africa region.
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... , jointly appointed in environmental and occupational health sciences, global health, and family medicine, with adjunct appointments in the Department of Medicine Division of Allergy and Infectious Disease as well as the Department of Epidemiology. He has more than 20 years of research experience with a current focus on zoonotic diseases, and more than 100 publications and 20 book chapters on zoonotic and emerging infectious diseases, One Health, and occupational medicine.
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... He is director of the One Health–focused undergraduate major, global disease biology. The major is a collaboration between the Department of Plant Pathology in the College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences, the School of Veterinary Medicine, and the School of Medicine at UC Davis.
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... Woutrina Smith, D.V.M., M.P.V.M., Ph.D., is a professor of infectious disease epidemiology in the School of Veterinary Medicine at the University of California, Davis (UC Davis) , and co-leads the U.S.
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... His passion for helping all peoples of the world saves lives, improves livelihoods, and motivates partners. Claire Standley, M.Sc., Ph.D., is an assistant research professor within Georgetown University's Center for Global Health Science and Security, with faculty appointments in the Department of Microbiology & Immunology and the Department of International Health.
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... from the University of Nottingham, as part of a joint program with the Natural History Museum of London, and completed a postdoctoral fellowship in biodiversity and infectious diseases at Princeton University. Rajeev Venkayya, M.D., is president of the Global Vaccine Business Unit at Takeda Pharmaceutical Company Ltd, where he leads a vertically integrated business developing vaccines for dengue, norovirus and Zika.
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... from the Northeast Ohio Universities College of Medicine, where he was inducted into the Alpha Omega Alpha honorary medical society. Supaporn Wacharapluesadee, Ph.D., is the laboratory head at the Thai Red Cross Emerging Infectious Diseases Health Science Centre (TRC-EID)
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... Dana Wiltz-Beckham, D.V.M., M.P.H., M.B.A., earned her under­graduate degree from Prairie View A&M University, her doctor of veterinary medicine degree from Tuskegee University, and her M.P.H./M.B.A. from B ­ enedictine University.


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