Dr. Deborah L. Birx, M.D., has spent her first career serving the United States, as an Army Colonel and later, running some of the most high-profile and influential programs at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and U.S. Department of State. Most recently, Dr. Birx served as the White House Coronavirus Response Coordinator,
John is a medical entrepreneur and currently the CEO of Allergy Standards Ltd (ASL), an international standards and certification body, a company he founded while working as an Emergency Room Doctor. As the founder he has led the development of an international intellectual property portfolio of patents and trademark applications and negotiated complex licensing
John Lowe is an associate professor of environmental, agricultural, and occupational health at the University of Nebraska Medical Center College of Public Health. Lowe’s research areas include infectious disease microbiology, disaster preparedness, and environmental exposure assessment with a focus on remediation of biological weapon contamination, highly infectious patient transport, nosocomial environmental contamination, environmental sampling,
Dr. Mark Hernandez attained all his degrees from University of California at Berkeley. He is a registered professional civil engineer and an expert on the characterization and control of bioaerosols – both indoors and out. A generation of his research leverages modern biophysics and forensic science for wide area surveillance and novel disinfection systems
Paul Meechan has nearly 30 years of experience in biosafety. A veteran of the pharmaceutical industry, Meechan has also worked for the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), In addition to overseeing large scale production facilities and containment labs, he served as president of ABSA International and is the editor of the
Elizabeth Caley (EC) is Co-CEO of Poppy Health. Prior to founding Poppy, EC was Chief Operating Officer of Meta, an AI company that organized the world’s scientific information. After the acquisition of Meta by Mark Zuckerberg & Dr. Priscilla Chan, EC was an executive at the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, overseeing tech and science information
Jeremy Duguay is a molecular biologist with over 15 years of biotechnology experience in the public, private and academic sectors. With a wide-ranging background in technical sales, customer support and research and development, he takes pride in understanding customer needs and helping customers solve complex problems. An educator at heart, Jeremy is driven to help
Patty Olinger is the Executive Director for GBAC. Prior to joining GBAC, Olinger was an Assistant Vice President in the Office of Research Administration and the Executive Director of the Environmental, Health and Safety Office (EHSO) at Emory University. During Olinger’s 13-year tenure, EHSO had university-wide responsibility for all aspects of Environmental, Health and
Elizabeth Caley (EC) is Co-CEO of Poppy Health. Prior to founding Poppy, EC was Chief Operating Officer of Meta, an AI company that organized the world’s scientific information. After the acquisition of Meta by Mark Zuckerberg & Dr. Priscilla Chan, EC was an executive at the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, overseeing tech and science information
John is the President of Lighthouse Environmental Infection Prevention. He leads a team of experts who are dedicated to ensuring safe facility environments through building and maintaining effective environmental infection prevention programs. In 2017, John founded Environmental Infection Prevention (EIP) as a result of his career long commitment to reducing illness and saving lives