Role: Investigator

Dr. Laura Goodman, Assistant Professor at Cornell University Baker Institute for Animal Health and Department of Public and Ecosystem Health, is an emerging infectious disease researcher trained at Cornell and Harvard. She is the section chief for Infectious Disease Epidemiology in the Cornell Public Health program. The Goodman Lab investigates mechanisms of pathogen emergence and … Read more

Dr. Gerdes is an assistant professor of technical communication and rhetoric at Virginia Tech. She studies institutional communication about and during public health emergencies of international concern (PHEICs). Her forthcoming book, Infectious Urgency: The Making of an International Public Health Emergency moves from spillover to the circulation of behavior messages to examine concepts of rhetoric, … Read more

Colin E. Bishop PhD holds the position of Professor in the Wake Forest Institute for Regenerative Medicine. His research interests include Gene Editing, Reproductive Genetics and Stem Cell Biology. His current research involves the construction of a human “body on a chip” using Organ Tissue Equivalents (Organoids) for fast predictive toxicology studies and disease modeling.

Dr. Bento is an assistant professor of infectious disease ecology in the Department of Public & Ecosystem Health at Cornell University. She leads a team of transdisciplinary researchers to shape, develop and coordinate integrative research into how data-driven modeling can end current and prevent future pandemics. At the Bento Lab the approach is to develop … Read more