GOC May 2010 Speaker Biosketches

Louise S. Gresham, PhD, MPH, Senior Director, Global Health and Security Initiative

Dr. Gresham has extensive experience managing infectious disease surveillance and response activities, syndromic surveillance systems, and policy making, having served as the Senior Epidemiologist for San Diego County’s Health and Human Services Agency. Dr. Gresham brings expertise in national and international disease surveillance systems, including U.S. Mexico Border Infectious Disease Surveillance, the Middle East Consortium on Infectious Disease Surveillance, the Mekong Basin, and the Southern African Centre for Infectious Disease Surveillance. She is part of a health diplomacy consortium that developed a tuberculosis lab in the Democratic People’s Republic of North Korea. She directed the San Diego State University Center for Public Health Security. Dr. Gresham holds an adjunct Associate Professor appointment, Graduate School of Public Health, San Diego State University and is well published in peer reviewed journals and texts.