Biography Dr. Dennis Carroll
Chief Science Officer, URC,
Distinguished Professor of Faculty of Medicine,
Chulalongkorn University
Topic: One Health workforce development initiatives and the growing threats of climate change and AMR: matching training programs to needs, opportunities and effective approaches.
Dr. Dennis Carroll has over 30 years of leadership experience in global health and development. Until recently he served as the Director of the U.S. Agency for International Development’s (USAID) Emerging Threats Division. In this position, Dr. Carroll was responsible for providing strategic and operational leadership for the Agency’s programs addressing new and emerging disease threats. He provided strategic leadership for the Agency’s response to the West Africa Ebola epidemic. He currently heads the Global Virome Project, an international partnership to build the systems and capacities to detect and characterize future viral threats while they are still circulating in wildlife – enabling the world to better prepare for and prevent their transmission to humans.
Dennis has received awards from both the CDC and USAID, including the 2006 USAID Science and Technology Award for his work on malaria and avian influenza, and the 2008 Administrator’s Management Innovation Award for his management of the Agency’s Avian and Pandemic Influenza program.
He is currently University Research Co. LLC’s senior adviser for global health security.
Dr. Dennis Carroll
AFROHUN
Regional One Health university networks in advancing global health security: developing workforce and fighting antimicrobial resistance in the era of climate change.
This conference is co-funded by the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ) and supported by the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH.