One Health Experts Database

Nitish Debnath
One Health, Vet Public Health, AMR and Disease Control

Dr. Nitish C. Debnath serves as an expert on the One Health High Level Expert Panel convened to advise leading global health agencies on the development of a plan to avert disease outbreaks with the potential to trigger pandemics. He is also a core member of the Board of Directors for the Council on International Veterinary Medical Education for Asia; president of Bangladesh Veterinary Council; president of the professional organization Agriculturist (Krishibid) Institution Bangladesh; and an Associate Fellow of Chatham House Global Health.

Dr. Debnath previously served in the Department of Livestock Services, Bangladesh, in different positions between 1979 and 1986. In late 1986, he joined the Bangladesh Livestock Research Institute and continued research in the field of animal virology and epidemiology until November 1996. He has since held several prestigious positions in the One Health sector including the FAO Emergency Center for Transboundary Animal Diseases where he was the Senior Technical Advisor for One Health and Veterinary Education. He pioneered the One Health movement in Bangladesh in 2007 jointly with veterinarians, physicians, and environmental scientists, and launched a new professional organization called One Health Bangladesh.

Peou Dom
Wildlife, Livestock, Parasites, Epidemiology

Peou Dom is the Technical Lead for Cambodia in STOP Spillover’s Wildlife, Livestock, Epidemiology, Behavior Change, and Gender Strategy Resource Hub. Mr. Dom has four years of experience as a monitoring and evaluation officer in Cambodia’s National Center for Parasitology, Entomology, and Malaria Control. Prior to that, he was a consultant for surveillance and outbreak response at the World Health Organization, an epidemiologist at the Pasteur Institute of Cambodia, and a project coordinator at World Vision Cambodia. Mr. Dom holds a Master of Public Health degree from Hanoi Medical University and a Bachelor of Veterinary Medicine from Vietnam National University of Agriculture.

Ken Malen
Epidemiology, Malaria, Molecular Biology

Ken Malen is serving as the Technical Lead for Cambodia in the global One Health project STOP Spillover’s Surveillance, Mapping, and Modeling Resource Hub.

She earned her master's degree in Biotechnology from the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (RMIT), Bachelor of Engineering of Chemical Engineering and Food Science from the Institute of Technology of Cambodia (ITC), and Bachelor of English for Professional Communication from the Institute of Foreign Language (IFL).

She has about 7 years of experience as a Lab Technician in the Molecular Biology Platform of the Epidemiology Molecular unit in the Malaria department at the Institute Pasteur of Cambodia.

Sok Dou
Public Health

Sok Dou is an independent One Health consultant based in Phnom Penh. He was, until recently, the Technical Lead for Cambodia in USAID-funded project STOP Spillover’s Risk Analysis and Communication Resource Hub. Mr. Dou has 13 years of experience in program design, project management, results-based management, advocacy, education, humanitarian assistance, rural development, and communication. He previously served in program development, fundraising, education, and advocacy at Good Neighbors International and has worked at other NGOs in Cambodia. 

Vivian Fensham
Wildlife, Livestock, Parasites, Epidemiology

Vivian is South African, and spent 7 years in Australia, before accepting a position in 2018 as a microbiology laboratory consultant for Integrated Quality Laboratory Services (IQLS) at the Central Media Making Laboratory (CMML) at the University of Health Sciences Phnom Penh, Cambodia.

She holds a Medical Technology diploma in Clinical Pathology and (Haematology; Biochemistry and Microbiology) and additional specialization in Microbiology. Vivian has more than 38yrs of laboratory experience covering various disciplines (1981- 2019); Clinical diagnostic laboratories; Microbiology reagent production; External Quality Assessment (EQA) for WHO/National Health Laboratory Service (NHLS); ISO accreditation and certification (15189, 17043, 17045 and 9001:2015); Cleanroom facility – medical devices (Cook Medical, Australia 2011-2018).

She has also been responsible for onsite training on basic microbiology laboratory practices and EQA, in Africa for WHOAFRO/NHLS and in Armenia and Georgia for IQLS. In addition, she was a technical consultant for the WHOEMRO External Quality Assessment program.

George Fu GAO
Zoonosis, Virology, Immunology, Structural Biology

Professor Gao is the Director-General of Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention (China CDC). He obtained his PhD (DPhil) degree from Oxford University and held his postdoctoral trainings in Oxford and Harvard University. Using interdisciplinary methods, including virology, immunology and structural biology, George has made remarkable contributions to the study of inter-species pathogen transmission. His work revealed the origin and interspecies transmission mechanism of avian influenza virus. He is a leading figure for the control of infectious diseases in China and a world advocate voice of global public health strategy. He led the China Mobile Laboratory Testing Team in the fight against Ebola outbreak in Sierra Leone in 2014 and continued his leadership in China CDC’s efforts supporting public health capacity strengthening in developing countries in Africa.

Lei Zhou
Epidemiology, Zoonotic disease

Professor Lei Zhou holds a MD in Epidemiology of the Peking University and her Diploma of Global Health of Duke University and Peking university, and participated in the Field Epidemiology Training Program (FETP) on the job education in China CDC.

Author of over 50 publications, she is Member of the Youth Committee, the ninth session, Public Health Branch, Chinese Medical Association, Member of the first Committee of Influenza Control and Prevention, Chinese Society of Preventive Medicine, Organization Pandemic Influenza Special Studies (PSS) expert working group, Member of the HO/GOARN global expertise network. Professor Zhou is in charge of the prevention and control of emerging infectious disease such as avian influenza (different variants), plague, Ebola, MERS, Zika, etc, and pandemic preparedness and response in China CDC, and was invited as a Guest Researcher in US CDC several times for collaboration and cooperation on pandemic preparedness and global health. She providedassistance as a scientific expert on behalf of China to HFMD outbreak in Cambodia in 2012 and Histoplasma public health event in Guyana in 2019 and joined the WHO Yolanda Humanitarian Response for two months in the Philippines in 2014. Professor Zhou has served as a scientific expert of the WHO Joint External Evaluation (JEE) in Brunei in 2019, and the WHO-China joint mission of H7N9 response assessment in 2013.

Professor Zhou has worked as the deputy lead of the Epidemiology Task Force and International Collaboration Task Force within the COVID-19 emergency response in China CDC since COVID-19 was detected at the end of 2019. She was deployed to the field for investigation firstly in 2019 and served as scientific expert of the WHO-China joint mission of COVID-19 response assessment in February in 2020 and the WHO Global COVID-19 Origin Tracing Study-China part in 2021.

Learn Han Lee
Microbiology

Lee Learn-Han is a Professor of Life Science and Healthcare at the University of Nottingham Ningbo China since 2024.  He is also the Director of the prestigious Asia Pacific Microbiome and Biomedical Research Network (AMBeR). He believes that teaching and research allow him to fulfill an essential responsibility as molecular biology and medical microbiology scientist. Dr Lee ranked among the Clarivate Highly Cited Researchers 2023 and World Top 2% Scientist in 2021, 2022 & 2023 by Stanford University (Elsevier Scopus Database), clearly demonstrating his research impact on the global stage. Furthermore, Dr Lee is certified by the Malaysia Board of Technologist as the prestigious Professional Technologist (Ts) and Graduate Technologist. His leadership and achievements in studying foodborne multidrug-resistant pathogens have led to top international recognition, evidenced by the invitation by the US-FDA as the sole Malaysian Principal Investigator to collaborate on the genetic study of foodborne pathogens from Malaysia since 2017. Collaboration with top US-FDA scientists will contribute to generating high-quality research and engagement for the institution and the country.

Abhishek CHAUDHARY
Sustainable Agriculture, and diets, Biodiversity Conservation, Life cycle assessment (LCA )

Abhishek CHAUDHARY is Assistant Professor at Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Kanpur (India) and a member of the WHO One Health High Level Experts Panel.

He is the author of over 35 peer-reviewed journal articles and has presented his work in more than 25 international conferences around the globe.  He works on current issues such as climate change, biodiversity extinction, food security, land degradation, environmental pollution, and loss of ecosystem services.  Prior to joining IITK, he held Postdoctoral Researcher and later a Senior Scientist position at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) in Zurich, Switzerland from where he also earned his Ph.D. in Environmental Engineering in 2015. Dr Chaudhary worked at the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) in Cincinnati, USA from 2009-2012 as an Environmental Engineer. He has won several prestigious research grants from organizations such as Swiss National Science Foundation, European Commission, US EPA, IIASA etc.  He is also a member of the IUCN SSC Phylogenetic Diversity Task Force (PDTF) and ES&T's Early Career Editorial Advisory Board. In the past, he has contributed to EAT-Lancet commission's report on healthy diets as well as to The Nature Conservancy's report on benefits of source water protection. His work on biodiversity within LCA has been recognized by UNEP-SETAC as best practice. He has previously served as member of technical advisory group to the LEAP initiative of United Nations' FAO.

Mamta Dhawan
Livestock, Veterinary Science, Zoonotic Disease, Gender in One Health context

Mamta Dhawan is a veterinary doctor with over 30 years of diverse global experience in the development sector, specializing in animal health and disease control, policy advocacy, gender mainstreaming, and community development focused on livestock-based livelihoods. She has collaborated closely with policymakers to promote a One Health approach and have led initiatives in project design, partner identification, and execution of animal disease control projects across India and Nepal. Her roles have included serving as Regional Manager for South Asia at GALVmed and providing consultancy to international organizations such as IFAD, FAO, WB and ILRI. She is actively involved in governance positions with organizations like Brooke Hospitals India and Anthra, contributing to livestock welfare and women's empowerment efforts globally.

Anismrita Lahon
Virology, Immunology, Zika virus, Chikungunya virus

Dr Anismrita Lahon received her PhD from the ICMR-National institute of Virology, Pune and Savitribai Phule Pune University, Pune in 2014. Her doctoral research focused on exploring knowledge to understand disease burden caused by rotavirus in humans and animals of economic importance. In 2014, she joined the research group of Prof. Rebecca Rico-Hesse as a post-doctoral associate in the Department of Virology and Immunology at Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, USA. During her post doc, she utilized humanized mouse models to study flavivirus pathogenesis (dengue and zika) and mosquito saliva induced immune response. In 2017, Dr Lahon returned to India and joined National Institute of Immunology, New Delhi as DST-INSPIRE Faculty and uncovered many viral and host factors associated with dengue virus pathogenesis. She joined the Institute of Advanced Virology, Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala as Scientist C in 2021. Her research is centered on developing nucleic acid-based vaccines for zika and chikungunya viruses.

Wiku Adisasmito
One Health, Zoonotic Disease, Avian Influenza

Wiku Adisasmito is an expert in health policy and infectious disease control. He has been a professor of health policy at the Faculty of Public Health, Universitas Indonesia, since 2010. In addition, he has served as an Adjunct Professor of Infectious Disease and Global Health at Tuft University and an Affiliate Professor of Environmental Health Science at the University of Minnesota since 2018.  In his early career, he worked as a researcher at the US CDC Division of Vector-Borne and Infectious Diseases, Fort Collins, Colorado, and the US CDC- WHO Dengue Reference Laboratory, San Juan, Puerto Rico. During the Avian Flu pandemic in 2006- 2007, he was assigned as an expert panel member at Indonesia's national task force for Avian Influenza control. Then in 2008-2010, he was also appointed as a member of the Asian Partnership for Avian Influenza Research (APAIR). In the same period, he served as the expert panel member of the National Committee for Avian Influenza Control and Preparedness for Pandemic Influenza. After the Avian Influenza outbreak ended, Professor Wiku served as an expert staff member of the National Commission for Zoonoses Control in Indonesia. He also serves as a member of the Steering Committee of the Asian Partnership for Emerging Infectious Disease Research, and a member of the Regional Core Group Eco-health Field Building Leadership Initiative Southeast Asia. He is currently coordinating the Indonesia One Health University Network (INDOHUN). During the COVID-19 response in Indonesia, he became the Coordinator of the Expert Team for the Task Force for the Acceleration of COVID-19 Mitigation. Furthermore, The President Republic of Indonesia mandated him as the Government Spokesperson for the COVID-19.

Mayfong Mayxay
Tropical Medicine and Infectious Disease

Dr Mayfong Mayxay is Vice-Rector and a Professor in Tropical Medicine and Infectious Disease at University of Health Sciences (UHS), Lao PDR; a Visiting Professor in Tropical Medicine at University of Oxford and a Visiting Professor in Public Health at the National University of Singapore. He initiated many important academic entities in Laos, for example, a clinical research unit called “Lao-Oxford-Mahosot Hospital-Wellcome Trust Research Unit or LOMWRU” at Mahosot Hospital, Vientiane; the first Lao Ethical Committee and the first Lao Medical Journal. He co-founded the Lao One Health University Network (LAOHUN) of which he is currently the Chairman and he co-established the Lao Infectious Disease Society (LIDS) where he is currently the President. Recently, he has co-founded a Unit for Health Evidence and Policy (UHEP) at the Lao University of Health Sciences with the aim to act as a platform for the analysis of the policy relevant scientific and health economics evidence to address key public health issues in Laos.

Abdul Rahman Omar
Veterinary Science, Immunology, Infectious Diseases

Dr AR Omar (aro), obtained his Doctor of Veterinary Medicine from Universiti Pertanian Malaysia, Malaysia in 1991 and PhD from Cornell University, the USA in 1997. Upon completion his PhD, he joined the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine (FVM). Since 2008, he has served as the Professor of Immunology and Infectious Diseases at FVM, Universiti Putra Malaysia (UPM).  He was the Director of the Institute of Bioscience, UPM (2011-2019) and the Dean of the FVM, UPM (2019-2022). He has also been the Chairman of Malaysia One Health University Network (MyOHUN) since 2019 and the President of the World Veterinary Poultry Association (Malaysia) since 2020. He has more than 20 years of teaching and research experience in avian disease and health. His research interest is in using biotechnology and immunogenomics approaches to develop diagnostics, vaccines, and therapeutics against poultry diseases. We work closely with various agencies and industries related to poultry health and production.  

Sylvia Daim
Biomedical Sciences, Infectious Diseases, Microbiology

Dr. Sylvia Daim is a professor at the Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences at Universiti Malaysia Sabah (UMS). She is involved in research on microbiology and medical sciences, particularly focusing on virus detection methods using optical spectroscopy. Her work gained significant attention during the COVID-19 pandemic, where she led efforts in virus detection and testing in Sabah.

Dr. Daim has contributed to multiple research projects and publications, including those on zoonotic malaria transmission, virus detection techniques, and the SARS-CoV-2 transmission timeline in Sabah. Her expertise spans molecular diagnostics and public health, and she has been involved in numerous collaborations aimed at improving disease detection and control.

She has published extensively in international journals and holds an impressive academic profile with a focus on improving medical diagnostics through innovative technological approaches.

Minani Gurung
Migration and Health

Dr Minani Gurung, is a PhD scholar in the Department of Public Health in Dhulikhel Hospital. She is also the Editor-in-Chief at One Health Research and Training Center, Kathmandu. Gurung who just received the Fogarty 'Future Leaders in Global Health Research Training Program' (LAUNCH) Fellowship 24/25 by Northern Pacific Global Health Leadership for her outstanding work in Migration and Health, graduated in Medicine from Tianjin Medical University and has a Master’s degree in Public Health from Mahidol University, Bangkok, Thailand. She has been working in the field of migration and health for the past 10 years. Dr. Gurung has a Post Graduate Diploma in Foundations of Clinical Research (FCR) from Harvard Medical School, Boston, USA. She also served as the Health Advisor for Gandaki Province, Nepal in 2023.

Dr Minani Gurung, is a PhD scholar in the Department of Public Health in Dhulikhel Hospital. She is also the Editor-in-Chief at One Health Research and Training Center, Kathmandu. Gurung who just received the Fogarty 'Future Leaders in Global Health Research Training Program' (LAUNCH) Fellowship 24/25 by Northern Pacific Global Health Leadership for her outstanding work in Migration and Health, graduated in Medicine from Tianjin Medical University and has a Master’s degree in Public Health from Mahidol University, Bangkok, Thailand. She has been working in the field of migration and health for the past 10 years. Dr. Gurung has a Post Graduate Diploma in Foundations of Clinical Research (FCR) from Harvard Medical School, Boston, USA. She also served as the Health Advisor for Gandaki Province, Nepal in 2023. 

Zahida Fatima
Zoonotic diseases, epidemiology

Dr. Zahida is currently serving the Animal Sciences Division of Pakistan Agricultural Research Council, Islamabad as Sr. Scientific Officer. Initially she worked for FAO funded project for eradication of Rinderpest. She secured HEC indigenous scholarship and completed PhD in Epidemiology and Public Health in 2016 from UVAS – Lahore. Some of her research interests are focused on understandings of epidemiological basis of different infectious, emerging/re-emerging, and zoonotic diseases under One Health approach. She has passion to work in the area of Public Health, One Health, and AMR. She achieved One Heath Fellowship sponsored by US – National Academies of Sciences at host institutes Washington State University. In 2019, UK Academy of Medical Sciences invited her to support a project and host a workshop in London to explore the research required to better prepare, prevent and respond to epidemics. Recently she completed 03 projects funded by Health Security Partners (USA), US-NAS & GHD/EMPHNET mainly focused on OH trainings to female veterinarians/professionals and surveillance of zoonotic diseases. She is affiliated with POHA and contributing for OH Promotion in Pakistan.

Osman Dar
One Health- All

Dr Osman A Dar is a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians (Edinburgh) and a Fellow of the Faculty of Public Health (UK). Osman completed his medical degree at the Aga Khan University in Pakistan.

before going on to do clinical training in general medicine at Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Trust. He subsequently undertook specialist training in Public Health and Communicable Disease Control at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine and the London/KSS Deanery School of Public Health.

At Chatham House, he is director of the One Health Project - an umbrella term referring to the Institute’s work on emerging infections, ecological approaches to disease control, antimicrobial resistance, environmental public health and health inequalities, and sustainable livestock development and its links to food security and nutritional outcomes. For the UK Health Security Agency, he is technical co-lead on One Health for the global International Health Regulations (IHR) capacity building programme and sits on the UK cross-government technical working group on One Health.

Michael L. Tee
One Health-All

Dr. Michael L. Tee is a Professor of Internal Medicine-Rheumatology at the College of Medicine and the incumbent Chancellor of the University of the Philippines (UP) Manila. He is also conferred the title University Scientist of UP, in recognition of his contributions to science and technology and scientific research productivity. He has earned his Master in Health Professions Education degree in 2007 in UP Manila and Master in Business Administration degree in 2015 in UP Diliman.

He is the current Chair of the Southeast Asia One Health University Network (SEAOHUN) and the Philippine One Health University Network (PhilOHUN), network of universities advocating expertise through One Health initiatives to improve health for all. He also serves as the Special Adviser to the Chairman of the Commission on Higher Education on international linkages of Philippine universities with foreign universities and industries.  

Janice Ho Ying-En
Heat/Temperatures and Health

Janice was a public health postdoctoral researcher in Hong Kong focusing on the effects of climate change on health outcomes. She is currently based in Singapore where she serves as the scientific communications manager at HRPC NUS. HRPC received the mandate from the Global Heat Health Information Network to build a regional hub to work on tackling the challenges of heat and health in Southeast Asia. She is leading a plan to host regional forum early next year to launch the hub and convene the different stakeholders on heat-health issues.

Paul Pronyk
Epidemiology, One Health surveillance, public health, genomics, early pathogen detection, infectious diseases

Dr Pronyk is an infectious disease physician and global health specialist with over two decades of experience in low and middle-income countries. Most recently, he held senior positions at UNICEF where he oversaw health, nutrition and WASH programs in Indonesia; led UNICEF’s Ebola response in Sierra Leone; and served as the technical lead for the UN Commission on Life Saving Commodities and RMNCH Trust Fund at UNICEF Headquarters in New York which provided financing and technical support to 23 countries in Africa and Asia.

Previously, Dr Pronyk directed major cross-disciplinary research programs in health systems strengthening and communicable disease control for the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine and the University of the Witwatersrand (South Africa) and The Earth Institute at Columbia University supporting 10 countries in sub-Saharan Africa. He has published widely across a range of disciplines including communicable disease control, health systems, data & analytics, child health and nutrition, gender-based violence, social capital and the social determinants of health. Current research interests include the application of genomic sequencing for public health surveillance in Asia, implementation science for health systems strengthening, digital health and AI, and the social determinants of health. 

Ruklanthi (Rukie) de Alwis
Infectious Diseases, Vaccines, antibody responses, pathogen surveillance, diagnostics

Ruklanthi (Rukie) de Alwis is the Deputy Director of the Center for Outbreak Preparedness (COP) and an Assistant Professor at the Emerging Infectious Diseases (EID) Programme. Rukie is a viral immunologist and vaccinologist with over a decade of experience working on infectious diseases. Her research interests include antibody responses, surveillance, and vaccines against viral pathogens. She particularly values working in close collaboration with local and international partners, including low and middle-income countries.

Rukie obtained her PhD in Microbiology and Immunology at the University of North Carolina (UNC), Chapel Hill, USA. During her doctoral work, she contributed to mapping of both neutralizing and enhancing human antibody responses following infections and vaccination against arboviruses (specifically Dengue virus). She then spent some time at La Jolla Institute, CA, USA learning about virus-specific T cell responses. Rukie further acquired training in epidemiology and public health during her MPH at LSHTM, UK. After which she worked for Oxford University, UK as an epidemiologist, setting up epidemiological surveillance studies and vaccine trials at OUCRU, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. Her vast interests in both infectious diseases and vaccination ultimately brought her to the Emerging Infectious Diseases Programme at Duke-NUS Medical School, Singapore. At Duke-NUS, she set up systems serology to invesgate antibody responses to natural infections or vaccinations against Dengue virus, yellow fever virus,  and chikungunya virus etc. During COVID-19, she worked together with a network of collaborators on developing a self-amplifying RNA vaccine against COVID-19.

Rukie now leads and support several vaccine-related projects and genomics initiatives, including the Asia Pathogen Genomics Initiative (Asia PGI). Asia PGI partners with 15 Asian countries (mostly lower resourced) to improve access to pathogen genomic sequencing to maximize public health utility. One of her key roles in Asia PGI is to ensure that pathogen genomic information is utilized to optimize new tool design (i.e. diagnostics and vaccines) and implementation.

Jong-Jin Kim
Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries

Mr Jong-Jin Kim is the Assistant Director-General and FAO Regional Representative for Asia and the Pacific since 1st July 2020. Mr Kim, a national of the Republic of Korea, has a long and distinguished career in public service. He joined FAO in 2013 as Director of South-South Cooperation and Resource Mobilization Division (TCS) and immediately prior to his present appointment, he had been serving as FAO’s Deputy Regional Representative for Asia and the Pacific (RAP) in Bangkok, Thailand.

Thitiwan Patanasatienkul
Aquatic Animal Health, Veterinary Epidemiology

Thitiwan’s education background is in Veterinary Epidemiology. She received her DVM and MSc from Kasetsart University, Thailand and completed her PhD (Veterinary Epidemiology) at University of Prince Edward Island, Canada. She has been trained in both qualitative and quantitative analyses. Her research involves the application of modeling and GIS to understand animal health. Her recent research projects have been focused on aquatic epidemiology using mathematical models to understand the population of vase tunicates, fouling on mussel farms, and to describe the spatial and temporal patterns of sea lice infestations on wild Pacific salmon in the Broughton Archipelago, British Columbia, Canada.  

Thitiwan’s current research is on sea lice infestations of wild and farmed salmon in British Columbia. She manages the combined data from different sites on the west coast of Canada, which will be used to study host-parasite interactions between wild and farmed salmon, and salmon migratory patterns. Thitiwan is also involved in various other projects, including assessment of risk factors associated with early mortality syndrome (EMS/AHPNS) occurrence on shrimp farms in Thailand, investigation of relationships between fish size and sea lice intensity on wild Pacific salmon, and the use of system dynamic models of sea lice abundance on isolated salmon farms.

Ha Nguyen Thi Ngoc
Public Health, Zoonotic Disease

Ha Nguyen Thi Ngoc is a manager of public health research and community development projects at Viet Nam One Health University Network (VOHUN). She is the STOP Spillover Viet Nam Country Team Lead. Mrs. Ha has 14 years of experience planning, implementing, monitoring, and evaluating community development and public health research projects. She has worked primarily in international NGOs and collaborative projects between the National Hospital for Tropical Diseases in Ha Noi capital and the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the U.S. Defense Threat Reduction Agency. Mrs. Ha, who holds a Master of Public Health from Hanoi Medical University.

Quyen Nguyen Thi
Zoonotic Disease, Infectious Disease surveillance and control

Dr. Quyen Nguyen Thi Le is currently the Technical Lead for Viet Nam in USAID-funded global project STOP Spillover’s Surveillance, Mapping, and Modeling Resource Hub. Dr. Quyen has nearly 10 years of experience working on infectious disease surveillance and control in Viet Nam. She holds Preventive Medicine Doctor and Master of Public Health degrees from Hanoi Medical University and is a Fellow of the Fleming Fellowship Program.