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Dr. Amesh Adalja is a board-certified physician in internal medicine, emergency medicine, infectious diseases, and critical care medicine. His work is focused on emerging infectious disease, pandemic preparedness, and biosecurity. He is a Senior Scholar at the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security and is a Fellow of the Infectious Diseases Society of America (IDSA), the American College of Physicians, and the American College of Emergency Physicians. He is currently a member and media representative of IDSA’s Precision Medicine working group. Dr Adalja is frequently interviewed on mainstream international and national media networks such as MSNBC, CNN and Fox and on popular social media regarding such topics as the COVID-19 epidemic, outbreaks of other infectious disease and emergency preparedness. Dr. Adalja is a native of Butler, Pennsylvania, and actively practices in the Pittsburgh metropolitan area, where he also serves on the City of Pittsburgh’s HIV Commission and on the advisory group of AIDS Free Pittsburgh.

Dr. Adalja has served on US government panels tasked with developing guidelines for the treatment of plague, botulism, and anthrax in mass casualty settings and the system of care for infectious disease emergencies, and as an external advisor to the New York City Health and Hospital Emergency Management Highly Infectious Disease training program, as well as on a FEMA working group on nuclear disaster recovery. Dr. Adalja is a member of the American College of Emergency Physicians Pennsylvania Chapter’s EMS & Terrorism and Disaster Preparedness Committee as well as the Allegheny County Medical Reserve Corps. He is formerly a member of the National Quality Forum’s Infectious Disease Standing Committee and the US Department of Health and Human Services’ National Disaster Medical System, with which he deployed to Haiti after the 2010 earthquake.

Dr. Adalja is an Associate Editor of the [Journal Health Security]. He was a coeditor of the volume [Global Catastrophic Biological Risks], a contributing author for the [Handbook of Bioterrorism and Disaster Medicine] , the Emergency Medicine CorePendium, Clinical Microbiology Made Ridiculously Simple , UpToDate’s section on biological terrorism , and a NATO volume on bioterrorism. He has also published in such journals as the New England Journal of Medicine, the Journal of Infectious Diseases , Clinical Infectious Diseases , Emerging Infectious Diseases , and the Annals of Emergency Medicine,.