Amesh Adalja
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Dr. Amesh Adalja is a senior scholar at the Johns Hopkins University Center for Health Security, with his work focusing on emerging infectious disease, pandemic preparedness, and biosecurity. He is a board-certified physician in internal medicine, emergency medicine, infectious diseases, and critical care medicine, as well as an associate editor of the journal Health Security.
Adalja was a co-editor of the volume Global Catastrophic Biological Risks, a contributing author for the Handbook of Bioterrorism and Disaster Medicine, the Emergency Medicine CorePendium, Clinical Microbiology Made Ridiculously Simple, UpToDate's section on biological terrorism, and a NATO volume on bioterrorism.
He is a member of the American Medical Association, the HIV Medicine Association, and the Society of Critical Care Medicine, among other medical societies. Adalja is a graduate of the American University of the Caribbean School of Medicine, and he obtained a bachelor of science degree in industrial management from Carnegie Mellon University.