Endy Bayuni is senior editor at the Jakarta Post and was editor-in-chief of the newspaper from 2004 to 2010. In his current position, he writes columns about Indonesian politics, the evolving political cultures, Islam, democracy, foreign affairs, economic development, and the changing media landscape. He has written for other publications, including the New York Times, Foreign Policy magazine website, the Washington Post/Newsweek blog, and the Straits Times of Singapore. His also trains new journalists and conducts writing workshops for professionals.

 

He is involved with various media organizations, including the Alliance of Independent Journalists (AJI) in Indonesia. In 2012, he helped found the International Association of Religion Journalists (IARJ) and currently serves as a member of the executive board.

 

He began his reporting career in 1983 with the Jakarta Post, spent a 7-year stint with Reuters and Agence France-Presse (AFP), returned to the paper in 1992, and became the editor-in-chief in 2004. He received several fellowship programs, including a year in Washington, DC, as Senior Fellow at the East West Center office in 2011; 2 semesters at Harvard University in 2003-04 as a Nieman Fellow; and as a Jefferson Fellow at the East West Center in Hawaii in 1999.

 

BG Ben Rimba, MD, MHA, works in Military Medicine in the Indonesian Defense Force. BG Rimba’s work focuses on biosecurity and biosafety. He has a degree in medicine from Fukultas Kedokteran Universitas Sumatera Utara.

 

Ratna Sitompul has been Dean of the Faculty of Medicine, Universitas Indonesia (FMUI), from 2008 to 2012 and was re-elected for the next period, from 2013 to 2017. She graduated as a medical doctor from FMUI in 1986, became an ophthalmologist in 1994, and earned her doctoral degree in 2005. She was also the Director of SEAMEO TROPMED Regional Center for Community Nutrition Indonesia from 2009 to 2012.

 

During her tenure as Dean of FMUI, she directed mutual collaborations in the field of healthcare services, medical education, and research among reputable institutions worldwide, including the University of Melbourne, Monash University, Leiden University, the Erasmus University Medical Center, Utrecht University, the University of South of Carolina, and the University of Newcastle Upon Tyne. She initiated a collaboration with the National University of Singapore (education, joint research, medical courses, staff and student exchange, PhD program) to support quality enhancement of FMUI. She is also developing Academic Health System Universitas Indonesia (AHS-UI), a collaboration in medical education, healthcare, and research with 9 national teaching hospitals in Jakarta, and actively participating in the Association of Academic Health Centers (AAHC). Moreover, a joint program with the Governor of DKI Jakarta province, called Jakarta Sehat, has been established to improve healthcare services and the referral system in DKI Jakarta.

 

Along with her role as Dean, Dr. Sitompul is focused on and deeply involved in the quality enhancement of healthcare practitioners. In 2010, she became the Chief Coordinator of the Health Professional Education Quality Project. She directed activities to develop and empower medical schools by providing tiered competitive funding to meet the requirements of new accreditation and produce qualified graduates.

 

Recently, she was appointed as Head of the Technical Commision of Health and Drugs Technology in the National Research Council of Indonesia to prepare national strategic policies for developing science and technology. From 2015 to 2018, she will co-direct the Indonesian Association of Medical Education Institutions to participate actively in determining national policies that directly affect the quality of medical education.

 

Pratiwi Pujilestari Sudarmono, MD, PhD, earned her medical degree from the Faculty of Medicine, University of Indonesia, Jakarta, in 1976. She received her PhD in molecular biology from Osaka University, Japan. After returning from Japan, in 1985 she went to Walter Reed Army Research Institute, Washington, DC, for postdoctoral work in enteric bacteria research. In 1992 she attained recognition as a Clinical Microbiology Specialist and was appointed as Professor of Microbiology in the Faculty of Medicine, Universitas Indonesia, in 2007. Dr. Sudarmono received a Fulbright New Century Scholarship in 2001-02 and conducted collaborative research in tropical diseases at the Johns Hopkins University.

 

Currently, she is the Vice Dean for Education, Research and Student Affairs and a professor of the Department of Microbiology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Indonesia. She is the chairman of the Indonesian Committee on Infectious Disease, Emerging and Reemerging, with a Ministerial Decree. This includes her responsibilities related to biosafety and biosecurity capacity building in the research institute and university laboratories in Indonesia. Dr. Sudarmono is also a steering committee member of INA RESPOND, the Indonesia Research Partnership on Infectious Disease, and an executive committee member of South East Asia Infectious Disease Clinical Research Network (SEAICRN).

 

Major General (Ret.) Daniel Tjen is Chairman of the International Committee of Military Medicine (ICMM). Previously, General Tjen served as Surgeon General, Indonesian National Armed Forces; Chief Deputy of Military Regional Health III/Siliwangi; Chief of Department Neurologist in the Central Army Hospital; Chief of Military Regional Health III/Siliwangi; Deputy Director of Army Health; Chief Deputy of Surgeon General, Indonesia National Armed Forces; and Chief of Surgeon General, Indonesia National Armed Forces.

 

General Tjen is a neurologist and received his medical training at the University of Indonesia. His military education includes Spamilwa (Military Officer School) and Susjur Pa bedah lapangan (Vocational School Officer of Surgical field).

 

 

Dr. Rozanah Asmah Abd Samad is Senior Principal Assistant Director of the Surveillance and Epidemiological Section, Biosecurity Management Division, Department of Veterinary Services, Ministry of Agriculture and Agro-Based Industry, Malaysia.

 

Dr. Chong has served as the Director of Disease Control, Ministry of Health Malaysia, since 2011. Previous positions include serving as Head of Vector Borne Disease Sector; Director of National Public Health Laboratory Malaysia; and District Health Officer in Malaysia.

 

Dr. Chong has also served as Facilitator for the Global Partnership Program in Laboratory Strengthening for Biosecurity and Biosafety through the ASEAN Partnership Laboratory, a committee member of the External Scientific Advisory Committee for PATH on G6PD testing, and a committee member of the Dengue Prevention Board, Dengue Vaccine Institute.

 

Mr. Hamzah Ishak is Under Secretary, National Crisis Management and Investigation Division, National Security Council, Prime Ministers Department, Malaysia.

 

Tan Sri Dr. M. Jegathesan is a medical doctor with postgraduate qualifications in pathology and infectious diseases who is currently working as a consultant clinical microbiologist in the private sector. He is also the Pro-Chancellor of the Universiti Sains Malaysia. Previously, he served the Ministry of Health for the main part of his career, culminating in the post of Deputy Director General (Research and Technical Support). Before that he was Director of its Institute for Medical Research. He has also served the World Health Organization as consultant/temporary adviser in his areas of specialization. He served as medical advisor to the UNDP-associated Council for Health Research for Development (COHRED) in Geneva. He has been an active researcher as well as research manager in his areas of expertise and has published more than 100 papers in peer-reviewed journals.

 

Parallel to his medical career, Dr. Jegathesan has been actively involved with the development of sports medicine and doping control in Malaysia. He is currently the medical adviser to the Commonwealth Games Federation and the Chairman of the Medical and Anti-Doping Commission of the Olympic Council of Asia. He was an active athlete, having been Asia Games sprint champion in 1962 (Jakarta) and 1966 (Bangkok) and a semifinalist in the Olympic Games in Tokyo in 1964 and Mexico in 1968. 

 

Winner of 2 national awards 30 years apart—the Sportsman of the Year Award in 1966 and the National Science Award in 1995— Dr. Jegathesan’s scientific contributions have earned him election as Academician (Senior Fellow) of the Academy of Sciences of Malaysia.

 

Lokman Hakim Sulaiman graduated as a medical doctor in 1985 from Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia (UKM) and obtained a SEAMEO-TROPMED postgraduate diploma in applied parasitology in 1988, a master’s degree in public health from National University of Singapore in 1990, and a PhD in medical parasitology from UKM in 2002. He was conferred the Fellow of Academy of Medicine Malaysia in 2000 and elected as a Fellow of the Malaysian Academy of Science in 2015. 

 

Dr. Sulaiman served as Medical Officer in the Pahang State Health Department for 5 years before joining the Institute for Medical Research (IMR) in 1991. At the IMR, his main research interest was in malaria and filariasis during the early years and later in the areas of environmental health and infectious disease transmission dynamics. At the IMR, he served as Head of the Parasitology Division, Head of the Environmental Health Research Centre, and Director of the Infectious Disease Research Centre. He also held the post of Head, WHO Collaborating Centre for Brugian Filariasis, and Dean, SEAMEO-TROPMED Regional School for Applied Parasitology and Entomology.  

 

In late 2009, Dr. Sulaiman joined the ministry of health as the Director of the Disease Control Division, and in April 2011 he assumed the post of Deputy Director General of Health (Public Health). He is the National Focal Point for IHR, focal point for Asean Senior Officers Meeting for Health Development, member of the Islamic Health Ministers Meeting Steering Committee, and Chair of the MOH Biosafety and Biosecurity Committee. He has published 50 scientific articles in peer-reviewed journals and 16 technical reports and proceedings for the MOH and Academy of Science Malaysia. 

 

Dr. Yunus commenced work with the Science and Technology Research Institute for Defence (STRIDE) in 1988 as a Microbiologist. She was the Head of Biosurveillance and Biodefence and at the same time the Facility Manager of STRIDE’s Biosafety Level 2 and 3 laboratories. Currently, she is the Director of the Instrumentation & Electronics Technology Division.

 

She has been involved, both nationally and internationally, in strengthening the Biological and Toxin Weapons Convention (BWC). She actively promotes the implementation of biosafety and biosecurity measures in Malaysia in fulfilling national obligations to the Convention. In addition, she is the Chairman for the Technical Committee for Drafting Malaysia’s BWC bill and regulations. She is also currently the national contact person/coordinator related to the country’s collaboration in the Biosecurity and Biorisk Management Programme. 

 

Over the years, Dr. Yunus has presented and published a number of papers in national and international conferences and journals. She has been actively involved in organizing the national and international conferences related to biosafety and biosecurity, including National Biosecurity Meeting 2005; Asia Biosafety and Biosecurity Conference 2007; International Congress on Biosafety, Biosecurity and Biodefence 2011; Asia Pacific Biosafety Association Conference 2013; and the NCT: CBRNe Asia 2013.

 

She graduated with a degree in microbiology from the University Kebangsaan Malaysia, obtained her MSc degree in immunology and allergy from the University of Nottingham, United Kingdom, and received her PhD in Chemical Engineering from the University of Manchester, Institute of Science and Technology (UMIST), UK.

 

 

Mr. Kwa works on the intersections of history, security studies, and international relations of Southeast Asia. As a Senior Fellow at the S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies at the Nanyang Technological University, he works on a range of regional security issues, with a focus on the implicit narratives underlying our framing of regional security. He is currently coordinating a program on science, technology, and security at the school, with a focus on biosecurity and nuclear and cybersecurity. As a Visiting Fellow at the Archaeological Unit of the Nalanda-Sriwijaya Centre at the Institute of Southeast Asian Studies and Adjunct Associate Professor in the History Department of the National University of Singapore, he is interested in the long cycles of Southeast Asian history. 

 

Mr. Kwa started his career working on policy analysis in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and then the Ministry of Defense before being assigned to reorganize the Oral History Department in the National Archives and, concurrently, the old National Museum. He continues to be associated with these heritage institutions in various advisory capacities and as Chairman of the National Archives Advisory Committee. He also chairs the National Library Advisory Committee.

 

Dr. Lee is the Chief Science and Technology Officer of the Ministry of Home Affairs Singapore (MHA), where he reports directly to the Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Home Affairs, and the Permanent Secretary of Home Affairs. Dr. Lee’s office, the Office of the Chief Science and Technology Officer, is the science and technology authority in MHA and leads the ministry in all science- and technology-related issues and policies to support the ministry’s doctrine in policy formulation and decision making contributing to augment operations in homeland security.

 

Dr. Lee has more than 20 years of experience in the CBRE domain and is instrumental in the strategic building and development of CBRE capabilities in Singapore. He is a member of the Central College Advisory Committee of the Institute of Technical Education in Singapore. Dr. Lee is also the appointed Singapore expert member in the IAEA Emergency Preparedness and Response Expert Group. 

 

Dr. Lee started his career in 1989 as a Research Scientist at DSO National Laboratories, an affiliated organization under MINDEF, and has served as Head of the Centre for Chemical Defence. He was Deputy Director of the Defence Medical and Environmental Institute at DSO, managing defense research and development in the areas of environmental protection, biomedical sciences, and human performance. He was concurrently the Director of the Chemical, Biological and Radiological Programme. In addition, Dr. Lee was also appointed by the Minister for Foreign Affairs as the Director of National Authority (Chemical Weapons Convention) from 2000 to 2007 and was instrumental in steering Singapore’s policy and implementation strategies in the domains of weapons of mass destruction treaties, like the Chemical Weapons Convention and Biological Weapons Convention. Today, he remains a key advisor to the national advisory board that oversees the strategic and policy issues in this area. In 2006, Dr. Lee joined the Ministry of Home Affairs. Dr. Lee’s alliances range from technology institutes in CB defense to international organizations like the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW), the Expert Group for the Biological Weapons Convention, and the United Nations Monitoring, Verification and Inspection Commission (UNMOVIC).

 

Dr. Lee’s pioneering efforts in building Singapore’s CBRE defense research have won him several awards, including the Defence Technology Prize. He was also conferred the credentials of Chartered Chemist by the Royal Society of Chemistry, as well as the Public Administration Medal (Silver) by the President of Singapore, presented to him in 2009 for his valuable scientific contributions in the defense and homeland security domains. 

 

Professor Pangestu is presently Visiting Professor, Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, National University of Singapore. He was previously Director, Research Policy & Cooperation, World Health Organization (WHO), Geneva (1999-2012). Prior to joining WHO, he was Professor of Biomedical Sciences, Institute of Postgraduate Studies & Research, University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia (1989-1999), and Lecturer and Associate Professor, Department of Microbiology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia (1977-1989). 

 

Professor Pangestu has published more than 250 scientific articles and 12 books, and he was lead author on several major WHO reports, including the World Health Report 2013: Research for Universal Health Coverage (2013), Knowledge for Better Health (2004), and Genomics and World Health (2002). His research interests are in epidemiology, pathogenesis, laboratory diagnosis and prevention of infectious diseases, dual-use research, genomics and global health, and in health research policy, health research systems, global health governance, best practices in research, development of research capabilities in developing countries, and linkages between research and policy.

 

He holds a PhD in immunology-microbiology from the Australian National University, Canberra, and he is a Fellow of the Royal College of Pathologists (UK), Institute of Biology (UK), American Academy of Microbiology (US), Academy of Medicine of Malaysia, and Academy of Sciences for the Developing World (TWAS).

 

Ms. Yap serves as the coordinator for OCSTO’s strategic engagements with nongovernment technical partners; she has a keen interest in a wide variety of issues that have an impact on homefront security. Ms Yap earned a BSc in psychology from the National University of Singapore. She has been exposed to a wide variety of homefront security work in MHA, ranging from counterterrorism program development, to awareness training, research, strategic engagement programs, and development of technical facilities and capabilities.

 

 

Rear Admiral Kenneth Bernard (USPHS, Ret.) is an advisor on health and international security issues to the defense, health, and foreign affairs communities. Prior to this, he served at the White House from 2002 to 2005 as Special Assistant to the President for Biodefense and as Assistant Surgeon General. From 2001 to 2003, he was head of the US delegation negotiating the Framework Convention on Tobacco Control. From 1998 to 2001, he was Senior Adviser for Security and Health on President Clinton’s National Security Council staff. His other positions have included Senior Political Adviser to the Director-General of the World Health Organization (2005-2007); Senior Adviser for Security, Defense and Intelligence to Health Secretary Tommy Thompson; International Health Attaché at the US Mission to the UN in Geneva; Associate Director for Medical and Scientific Affairs in the Office of International Health, Department of Health and Human Services; and International Health Policy Adviser to the Director of the US Peace Corps. Early in his career, he spent 3 years as a medical epidemiologist at the Centers for Disease Control in Atlanta, Georgia.

 

Dr. Bernard has an MD from the University of California, Davis, a DTM&H from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, is board certified in internal medicine, and is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations.

 

Seth Carus is Distinguished Research Fellow at the Center for the Study of Weapons of Mass Destruction at the National Defense University. His research focuses on issues related to biological warfare, including threat assessment, biodefense, and the history of biological warfare. He has written a working paper, “Bioterrorism and Biocrimes: The Illicit Use of Biological Agents in the 20th Century,” and several articles on allegations of biological agent use. From 2001 to 2003, Dr. Carus was detailed to the Office of the Vice President, where he was the Senior Advisor to the Vice President for Biodefense. Prior to joining NDU, Dr. Carus was a research analyst at the Center for Naval Analyses. From 1991 to 1994, Dr. Carus was a member of the policy planning staff, Undersecretary of Defense for Policy, Office of the Secretary of Defense. Before joining the government, he was a research fellow at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy. Dr. Carus has a PhD from Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland.

 

Working with the CEO, Ms. Cicero directs operations, strategic and budget planning, and program development for the UPMC Center for Health Security. Since joining the Center, she has expanded the Center’s efforts in epidemic preparedness, nuclear resilience, and international programs.

 

Ms. Cicero has authored or co-authored a number of widely cited articles and reports on biosecurity policy, pandemic preparedness, nuclear and radiological consequence management, biosurveillance, international disease surveillance, and public health law.

 

In working to engage the Center in valuable new exchanges, Ms. Cicero launched a number of initiatives to improve mutual understanding and collaboration with countries including China, Kuwait, the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, Singapore, and Taiwan.

 

Before joining the Center, Ms. Cicero spent nearly 2 decades as a practicing attorney in both the US federal government and the private sector. She was Managing Partner in charge of the Washington, DC, office of Drinker, Biddle & Reath, LLP, where she was responsible for more than 300 lawyers and staff. In her legal work, she created and managed a number of pharmaceutical consortia, with a particular focus on clinical research and regulatory compliance. Ms. Cicero’s work required constructive engagement with members of Congress; the World Health Organization; the European Commission; the US Food and Drug Administration; the US Departments of State, Defense, and Health and Human Services; and the Environmental Protection Agency.

 

Before entering private practice, Ms. Cicero focused on environmental litigation and counseling. She began her career as a trial attorney in the Honors Program at the US Department of Justice, Environmental Enforcement Section.

Ms. Cicero is a graduate of the Yale Law School and Oberlin College.

 

Julie E. Fischer is an Associate Research Professor of Health Policy and Management in the Milken Institute School of Public Health at George Washington University. Dr. Fischer co-directs a multidisciplinary team, conducting original analyses on national and global capacities to prevent, detect, and respond to public health events. From 2007 to 2012, Dr. Fischer directed Stimson’s Global Health Security Program, exploring the tools, policies, and partnerships that strengthen global capacities for disease detection and response. She is a former Council on Foreign Relations International Affairs Fellow and American Association for the Advancement of Science Congressional Fellow. As professional staff with the Senate Committee on Veterans’ Affairs, she worked on issues related to emergency medical preparedness and the consequences of biological, chemical, and radiological exposures during military service. She served as a senior research fellow at the University of Washington and Seattle Biomedical Research Institute and as a microbiologist with a Thai-US collaboration aimed at strengthening Thailand’s capacities to identify and control emerging infections of regional and global significance. Dr. Fischer received a BA from Hollins University and a PhD in microbiology and immunology from Vanderbilt University.

 

Dr. Gronvall is a Senior Associate at the UPMC Center for Health Security and an Associate Professor at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine and Graduate School of Public Health. She is an immunologist by training. She is a member of the Threat Reduction Advisory Committee (TRAC), which provides the Secretary of Defense with independent advice and recommendations on reducing the risk to the United States, its military forces, and its allies and partners posed by nuclear, biological, chemical, and conventional threats. She served as the Science Advisor for the Commission on the Prevention of Weapons of Mass Destruction Proliferation and Terrorism from April 2009 until the Commission ended in February 2010. She has testified before Congress about the safety and security of high-containment biological laboratories in the United States and served on several task forces related to laboratory security, including a 2008 Defense Science Board task force and a 2008 National Academy of Sciences (NAS) panel charged with providing technical input on the risk of operating Boston University’s National Emerging Infectious Diseases Laboratory. Dr. Gronvall has investigated and presented policy recommendations on the governance of science to the Biological Weapons Convention (BWC) in Geneva, Switzerland (2003, 2005, and 2006).

 

Dr. Gronvall is an Associate Editor of the journal Health Security (formerly Biosecurity and Bioterrorism). She is a founding member of the Center, and, prior to joining the faculty in 2003, she worked at the Johns Hopkins University Center for Civilian Biodefense Strategies, which she joined in 2001. From 2000 to 2001, she was a National Research Council Postdoctoral Associate at the US Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases (USAMRIID) at Fort Detrick, Maryland.

 

Dr. Gronvall received a BS in biology from Indiana University, Bloomington. She subsequently worked as a protein chemist at the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center and received a PhD from Johns Hopkins University for work on T-cell receptor/MHC I interactions.

 

William P. Hostyn is the Director, Advisory Committees and Programs Office, Defense Threat Reduction Agency, and STRATCOM Center for Combatting Weapons of Mass Destruction (DTRA/SCC-WMD). In this capacity, he is the senior Department of Defense (DoD)–designated federal officer responsible for the Threat Reduction Advisory Committee (TRAC). TRAC provides the Secretary of Defense with independent advice and recommendations on reducing the risk to the United States, its military forces, and its allies and partners posed by nuclear, biological, chemical, and conventional threats. Additionally, he oversees DoD program management of the Project on Advanced Systems and Concepts for Countering Weapons of Mass Destruction; the Project on Nuclear Issues; the Emerging Leaders in Biosecurity Initiative; and the Nuclear Strategy Forum. 

 

Prior to his current assignment, Mr. Hostyn was the Chief, Systems and Engineering Division, in DTRA’s Advanced Systems and Concepts Office (ASCO). While assigned to ASCO, he oversaw the development and execution of technical projects and strategic international dialogues that cut across federal agencies for weapons of mass destruction (WMD) threat reduction in nuclear, chemical, biological, and emerging requirements. He further maintained interagency liaison on programs, policy, and doctrinal issues and was a principal interface with think-tanks in the Washington, DC, area and the Naval Post Graduate School, Monterey, CA. He also served as Chief, Joint Military Personnel Division, with DTRA. 

 

Mr. Hostyn retired from the US Air Force in 2003 after more than 20 years of distinguished service. Having served on 3 major command staffs (Headquarters Tactical Air Command, Pacific Air Forces, and Air Force Space Command), he was primarily engaged in manpower and personnel force structure planning and execution of programs stemming from the Base Realignment and Closure Commission for installation-wide and unit level activation, inactivation, and conversions in missile, satellite, and fixed and rotary wing weapon systems. A graduate of the Air University Contingency Warfare Planning Course, he further worked with Joint Chief of Staff (JCS) contingency warfare planning while serving on the Air Component Staff, Headquarters Seventh Air Force, Osan Air Base, Republic of Korea.

 

Mr. Hostyn has a BS in organizational management from Colorado Christian University, an MS in public administration from Troy State University, and an MS in national resources strategy with a minor as a national security professional from the National Defense University, Industrial College of the Armed Forces.

 

Dr. Hynes has more than 40 years of medical and public health experience in both international and domestic settings. She is a physician trained in internal medicine, infectious diseases, tropical medicine, and epidemiology.

 

In 2007 she transitioned from 30 years of government service, including having served as Senior Advisor to the Vice President of the United States for Medicine and Public Health (Homeland Security) and Deputy Assistant Secretary for Public Health Emergency Preparedness and the Director of the Office of Public Health Emergency Medical Countermeasures at the US Department of Health and Human Services.

 

Currently, she serves on the faculty of both the Schools of Medicine and Public Health at Johns Hopkins University, where she directs the Geographic Medicine Center of the Division of Infectious Diseases and co-directs the infectious diseases concentration in the master of public health program at the Bloomberg School of Public Health. Her research focuses on vaccine-preventable diseases, tropical diseases, and zoonotic infections.

 

Since 2014 she has served as a member of the National Biodefense Science Board/National Preparedness and Response Science Board, which provides advice to the Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response at the US Department of Health and Human Services.

 

Dr. Inglesby is Director of the UPMC Center for Health Security, a nongovernmental organization dedicated to protecting people’s health from the consequences of epidemics and disasters and to ensuring that communities are resilient to those challenges. He is an Associate Professor of Medicine and Public Health at the University of Pittsburgh Schools of Medicine and Public Health.

 

Dr. Inglesby's work is internationally recognized in the fields of public health preparedness, pandemic flu and epidemic planning, and biosecurity. He is Chair of the Board of Scientific Counselors, Office of Public Health Preparedness and Response, US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). He is Chair of the National Advisory Council of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation National Health Security Preparedness Index. He is a member of the External Laboratory Safety Workgroup appointed by the CDC Director that is examining the biosafety practices of the CDC, the National Institutes of Health (NIH), and the Food and Drug Administration (FDA). He is on the Advisory Committee to the Biomedical Advanced Medical Research Authority (BARDA) in the Office of the Assistant Secretary of Preparedness and Response of the Department of Health and Human Services. He has also served on committees of the Defense Science Board and the National Academies of Sciences and in an advisory capacity to DHS and DARPA. 

 

During the past 15 years, Dr. Inglesby has authored or co-authored more than 80 peer-reviewed articles, reports, and editorials on a range of issues related to health and security. He is Editor-in-Chief of the journal Health Security, which he helped to establish 13 years ago as the first peer-reviewed journal in its field, under its original title, Biosecurity and Bioterrorism. He was a principal editor of the JAMA book Bioterrorism: Guidelines for Medical and Public Health Management. 

 

Dr. Inglesby has been invited to brief White House officials from the past 3 presidential administrations on national biosecurity challenges and priorities, and he has delivered Congressional testimony on public health preparedness and biosecurity. He is regularly consulted by major news outlets for his expertise. He is also on the Board of Directors of PurThread, a company dedicated to developing antimicrobial textiles.  

 

Dr. Inglesby completed his internal medicine and infectious diseases training at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, where he also served as Assistant Chief of Service in 1996-97. Dr. Inglesby received his MD from Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons and his BA from Georgetown University. He continues to see patients in a weekly infectious disease clinic.

 

Dr. Johnson is the owner of the consulting company Biosafety Biosecurity International. She is a microbiologist with more than 20 years of experience as a senior scientist in the US government in the area of biosafety, biocontainment, and biosecurity. She provides training and consultation in the United States and internationally on biorisk assessment, management, and mitigation; facility design, testing, certification, and construction for BSL/ABSL 2-4 and BSL-3 Ag laboratories; and development of compliance documentation in the form of manuals, SOPs, and site-specific risk assessments and NEPA documentation. 

 

Dr. Johnson’s technical and policy advice and strategies are requested in the United States by various government agencies, companies, universities, subcommittees (ANSI, NRC-Life Sciences Board, Senate, NBBTP, etc.), and international ministries of health.

 

Dr. Johnson is a registered biosafety professional, an approved facility certifier and trainer by the Singapore Ministry of Health, past president of ABSA, a founding member of IFBA, and Co-Editor of the peer-reviewed journal Applied Biosafety.

 

Michael S. Malley joined the Department of National Security Affairs in December 2004. He teaches comparative politics, as well as courses on the domestic politics, political economy, and international relations of Southeast Asia. He speaks Indonesian fluently and has lived, worked, and traveled extensively in Indonesia since the late 1980s.

 

His research is focused on issues of state formation, state failure and survival, and regime change in Southeast Asia. He has particular expertise in the area of center-local relations, decentralization policy, and provincial politics in Indonesia. Recently, he has begun to examine the impact of domestic politics on regional security, paying special attention to the way Southeast Asian countries deal with nuclear energy.

 

He earned his doctorate in political science at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, a master's degree in Southeast Asian studies from Cornell University, and a bachelor's degree from Georgetown University's School of Foreign Service. As part of these academic programs, he also studied at the National University of Singapore and 2 Indonesian universities, Gadjah Mada University in Yogyakarta and IKIP in Malang.

 

Ms. Ravi is a Senior Analyst at the UPMC Center for Health Security. She is an Associate Editor of the peer-reviewed journal Health Security (formerly Biosecurity and Bioterrorism) and co-editor of Preparedness Pulsepoints. Ms. Ravi also serves as analyst manager for Center projects examining healthcare preparedness in the United States, biosecurity policy, and the risks and societal impacts associated with synthetic biology research. She has previously contributed to projects exploring mass population displacement, nuclear emergency preparedness, and mobile health technologies. Ms. Ravi’s research interests include global health systems, infectious disease policy, and medical countermeasure delivery.

 

In 2013, Ms. Ravi received a master of public health degree in infectious disease management, intervention, and community practice from the Graduate School of Public Health at the University of Pittsburgh, where her thesis explored the dynamics of blood product management during public health emergencies. As a graduate student, she contributed to research on nosocomial infections, community-based health education, and geriatric health. In 2013, she served as a Global Impact Fellow with Unite for Sight in Tegucigalpa, Honduras, delivering basic eye care to underserved regions. Ms. Ravi earned a BA in biology from Saint Louis University in 2011.