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Joseph Fair, PhD. recently joined the GVFI effort as Director of Field Activities. He received his Bachelor's degree in Microbiology from Loyola University and his MPH and PhD degrees from Tulane University in Tropical Medicine and Molecular Virology, respectively.
Dr. Fair is a specialist in the laboratory diagnosis and pathogenesis of viral hemorrhagic fevers, particularly Lassa and Ebola viruses and has spent much of the past ten years studying these pathogens in Africa, as well as the maximum containment laboratories at the US Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases at Fort Detrick, MD. As a recipient of the Department of Defense's prestigious Science, Mathematics, and Research for Transformation of Defense (SMART) Fellowship, Joseph initiated and managed a novel research program to develop recombinant diagnostics for Arenaviruses. As a result of this work, he succeeded in providing the first in-country diagnostic system for Lassa fever in Sierra Leone and the Mano River Union countries since 1993.
More recently Joseph served as the Chief Scientist of Southern Research Institutes' Biological Threat Reduction Program effort in Ukraine, where he worked as the lead scientific consultant in an effort to modernize and overhaul the Ukrainian Especially Dangerous Pathogen Laboratory network.
Joseph's research and interests have been funded by the NIAID, the Department of Defense Global Emerging Infections Systems (DoD-GEIS), the Military Infectious Disease Research Program (MIDRP), and the Pasteur Institute.
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Dr. Fair is a specialist in the laboratory diagnosis and pathogenesis of viral hemorrhagic fevers, particularly Lassa and Ebola viruses and has spent much of the past ten years studying these pathogens in Africa, as well as the maximum containment laboratories at the US Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases at Fort Detrick, MD. As a recipient of the Department of Defense's prestigious Science, Mathematics, and Research for Transformation of Defense (SMART) Fellowship, Joseph initiated and managed a novel research program to develop recombinant diagnostics for Arenaviruses. As a result of this work, he succeeded in providing the first in-country diagnostic system for Lassa fever in Sierra Leone and the Mano River Union countries since 1993.
More recently Joseph served as the Chief Scientist of Southern Research Institutes' Biological Threat Reduction Program effort in Ukraine, where he worked as the lead scientific consultant in an effort to modernize and overhaul the Ukrainian Especially Dangerous Pathogen Laboratory network.
Joseph's research and interests have been funded by the NIAID, the Department of Defense Global Emerging Infections Systems (DoD-GEIS), the Military Infectious Disease Research Program (MIDRP), and the Pasteur Institute.
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