Dr Kashef Ijaz

Dr Kashef ljaz is the vice president for health programs at The Carter Center, where he provides leadership for programs and initiatives working to control, prevent, eliminate, or eradicate six tropical diseases in 18 nations, as well as efforts to improve mental health care in the United States and abroad.

Previously Dr. Ijaz was the principal deputy director in the Division of Global Health Protection, at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) where he helped build disease detection and response capacity for global health security. At CDC, he also served as deputy director for science and programs in the Center for Global Health and chief of the Tuberculosis Field Services and Evaluation Branch. He helped lead the CDC's responses to the West Africa Ebola epidemic of 2014-16, the MERS-CoV outbreak of 2013-14, and the HIN1 pandemic of 2009.

Dr Ijaz is a physician trained in public health from the University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center, has expertise in infectious diseases and global health. He holds certificates in public health leadership from the University of Alabama and in national preparedness and response leadership from the Kennedy School of Government and Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health at Harvard University. He is Professor of Epidemiology & Global Health at Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University. He speaks five languages and has more than 100 articles and presentations published in peer-reviewed journals and at conferences.