As the founder of PHSG, Bill leads the organization's strategic direction and envisions a world free of pandemics. He is passionate about building a cross sectoral, One Health team to bring together the necessary knowledge and skills to tackle some of the grandest global health challenges across the human, animal and environemal paradigm. As a public health surveillance and health systems expert, Bill has worked on various aspects and types of surveillance and health systems in 20+ countries in the African, Asian, and Middle Eastern regions. He has consulted for leading public health organizations [e.g., World Health Organization (WHO), United Nations Develop Programme (UNDP), CARE, The Carter Center] and numerous governments in conducting surveillance assessments, guiding national and regional surveillance strategies, and developing implementation plans to enhance surveillance and the quality of information produced for decision-makers.

He has had great success working on the community, district, national, and international domains of health systems. His understanding of how diseases are detected, reported, assessed, and responded to on each level, coupled with his political know-how and experience working with ministries in 20+ countries, has equipped him with the necessary skillsets to advise on surveillance systems and information building across countries and regions. Bill received his MPH from Emory University and his B.A. from Rutgers University.

Brooke currently leads PHSG in project administration, ensuring our teams stay organized, policies up-to-date, and works with our accountants for financial reporting to our donors and clients. Brooke manages our reporting for UKAID projects as well as other donors, managing our financial reporting and compliance for 12+ countries. She got her start in the field of public health while working for an NGO in Brazil and continued her work in the health field in outpatient clinic settings in the US. She is currently working towards her MPH in Health Promotion and Behavioral Science and MA in Latin American Studies at San Diego State University. Brooke holds a BA in Anthropology from the University of California, Los Angeles.

Odile is a veterinary epidemiologist with expertise in infectious diseases, antimicrobial resistance and drug development. With over 10 years of experience, she worked in a wide range of settings, both in public and private sectors, ranging from human hospitals to animal farms in developed or low-income countries. This professional background, shared between human and animal health, is an asset in understanding the design and implementation of one health policies and strategies.

As an epidemiologist at the Institut Pasteur (Paris), she has gained a significant experience in defining, conducting and coordinating hospital-based multicenter studies on the spread of antibiotic resistant bacteria, within national or European projects. Living one year in Vietnam, she performed an in-depth field investigation on veterinary medicines in Laos, Cambodia and Vietnam on the behalf of IRASEC (research institute on Southeast Asia). Her successes also included, as R&D manager for a pharmaceutical laboratory, the development and commercialization of veterinary vaccines (for rabbit and poultry) and the setting up of good laboratory practices in the animal facilities. Additionally, she has taught epidemiology to veterinary students and worked as clinical trial monitor.

Odile holds a Doctor of Veterinary Medicine degree from the National Veterinary School of Toulouse (France), a diploma of medical bacteriology from the Institut Pasteur (Paris), and a M.P.H. from Paris-Saclay University.

Affan is a public health professional with interests in disease prevention and health systems strengthening. With over seven years of professional experience, Affan’s work engages multilateral stakeholders including inter- and intra- governmental organizations, academic intuitions, NGOs, and communities in building local public health capacities, improving health outcomes, and increasing access. He has worked on the ground across 14 different countries, and during the peak of the MERS-CoV outbreak in Saudi Arabia and following the Ebola epidemic in Sierra Leone. Through his work, Affan is driven to strengthen health systems using evidence-based research. He has had numerous teaching engagements with Emory University, the University of Michigan, and Columbia University, where he has taught courses on public health surveillance, oral communication, and scientific writing.

He has successfully consulted with the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the Africa Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, numerous Ministries of Health throughout Africa, the Middle East, and South Asia, and the World Health Organization. In addition to consulting, he serves as a Visiting Scientist for the National Academy of Sciences and as an International Board Member to the Saudi Arabia Centres for Disease Control and Prevention.Affan holds an MPH in International Health from Boston University and a BA in Economics from University of California, Los Angeles.

Shankar is a veterinary epidemiologist with expertise in statistical and stochastic modeling of highly infectious animal diseases of economic and zoonotic importance. He has worked in different parts of the world (South Asia, North America and Europe) in the field and research settings. He has wide networks among veterinarians and epidemiologists working in the areas of One Health, zoonoses and infectious animal disases particularly in South Asia.

After completing his Bachelor of Veterinary Science and Animal Husbandry degree, Shankar worked as a veterinary officer (private and government organization) for six years (2004-2010) in Nepal and contributed in disease diagnosis, treatment, outbreak investigation, and control. As a Fulbright Scholar, Shankar received his Master’s in Public Health (MPH) degree from Kansas State University, Manhattan, Kansas, USA (2010-2012). His Master’s project was focused on spatial, temporal, and behavioural analysis of animal rabies in Nepal and the Albany County, New York. Later, he earned a PhD degree in Veterinary Epidemiology from Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana, USA (2012-2016) in the areas of modeling and simulation of classical swine fever spread and control in the context of the United States.

After completion of his PhD, Shankar received a postdoctoral fellowship (Oak Ridge Institute of Science and Education (ORISE)) to expand his research through the collaboration with the USDA-APHIS-Center for Epidemiology and Animal Health, Fort Collins, CO and USDA-ARS-Plum Island Animal Disease Center, New York. During his 2.5 years of postdoctoral research at the USDA, he parameterized the foot-and-mouth disease spread models and assessed various control strategies for FMD control in the context of the United States. As a consultant, he worked with FAO (at headquarter; Rome) to contribute to the preparedness and contingency planning for the control of FMD in Europe and coordinated trainings, webinars, workshops for veterinarians or epidemiologist in different parts of the world. Shankar is one of the One Health leads for PHSG and works across subSaharan Africa, South Asia and SouthEast Asia to develop regional frameworks for one health AMR data sharing and use in each region.