Pediatric Psychology Lab
News & Events
November 19, 2009
Gregory C. Gray, MD,MPH, FIDSA hired as Department Chair for the Department of Environmental and Global Health.
EGH warmly welcomes our newest edition, professor Dr. Gregory Gray, who will start working with us as our Department Chair in early January 2010. He will be housed in the College of Public Health and Health Professions. Dr. Gray comes from the University of Iowa where he established and directed a program in infectious disease epidemiology and the Center for Emerging Infectious Diseases (CEID). He is excited by the multiple possibilities for cross-disciplinary research and collaboration that the Emerging Pathogens Institute offers and he is looking forward to forging new lines of research.
"I believe that when you bring people together from different disciplines, and they start to focus their diverse skills in solving a problem, this can lead to some real research breakthroughs," Dr. Gray said. "Emerging Pathogens Institute has a lot to offer in this regard. I'm particularly excited about collaborating with the Veterinary Medicine researchers. It's hard to predict where the networking and brainstorming may lead."
He will also work closely with EPI to develop a zoonotic virology research agenda.
Dr. Gray also hopes to bring a Certificate program in Emerging Infectious Disease from the CEID to the Univ. of Florida. This program trains international practitioners such as epidemiologists, veterinarians, nurses, physicians and other public health professionals who seek graduate level training in emerging infectious diseases.
Dr. Gray has published more than 150 peer-reviewed manuscripts and has been the recipient of numerous academic awards for research and teaching. His current research interests include emerging infectious diseases, especially zoonotic infections, evaluation of rapid diagnostics, and the epidemiology of respiratory pathogen infections, specifically adenovirus, influenza, and human metapneumovirus.
Dr. Gray also enjoys practicing photography, and he said he often makes images of his co-workers when they are working in the field, as well making images of their subjects. He made both of the images below.
Dr. Jamsran (left), head of Hovd Aimag Health Department supports his community in the mountains of Western Mongolia in various ways, including both vaccination campaigns and community-building efforts such as wolf hunts. Pictured here, he searches for wolf pack movement early one very cold morning. Forty-nine percent of Mongolia's total labor force is involved in nomadic livestock herding of sheep, goats, horses, cattle, yaks and camels. Wolves, while greatly respected in Mongolian lore and traditions, have recently increased in number, effecting livestock producers. (Credit: Dr. Gregory Gray, January 2009)
Ms. Chum Chan Nimol, a field worker supervisor, performs a weekly follow-up with children in rural Kampong Cham Province, Cambodia. Ms. Nimol manages enrollment and weekly follow-up of 800 adults and their families living in eight rural villages in this province. She works with the Naval Medical Research Unit No. 2/National Institute of Public Health Laboratory in Phnom Penh to execute a three-year cohort study, Prospective Studies of Avian Influenza Transmission in Asia. (Credit: Dr. Gregory Gray, March 2009)