Emerging Zoonotic Influenza Virus Threats by Greg Gray
April 21, 2014 | 4:00pm - 5:00pm ET
131 Hanes House
Emerging Zoonotic Influenza Virus Threats by Greg Gray
April 21, 2014 | 4:00pm - 5:00pm ET
131 Hanes House
About the speaker:
Gregory C. Gray, MD, MPH, FIDSA
Professor and Chair,
Department of Environmental and Global Health
University of Florida College of Public Health
Health Professions Director, Global Pathogens Laboratory
Gray is a Professor and Chair of the Department of Environmental and Global Health in the University of Florida’s College of Public Health and Health Professions. He directs the One Health Center of Excellence and the Global Pathogens Laboratory in the University of Florida’s Emerging Pathogens Institute. He has a joint appointment in the University of Florida’s College of Veterinary Medicine.
He received his MD from the University of Alabama at Birmingham, and his MPH from Johns Hopkins School of Hygiene & Public Health. His medical boards are in Preventive Medicine and Public Health. He has conducted epidemiological infectious disease research for 25 years in the United States and abroad. In 2010 he was recruited to his present position at the University of Florida. His current research interests include studying animal workers for evidence of occupational infections with zoonotic pathogens, especially respiratory viruses. He leads his Global Pathogens Laboratory team and international collaborators in studying persons with occupational exposure to camels, cattle, ducks, dogs, geese, goats, marine mammals, pigs, and poultry in a number of countries including Bangladesh, Cambodia, China, Georgia, Kenya, Madagascar, Mongolia, Nigeria, Romania, Saudi Arabia, Thailand, and the United States.