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Maria D. Van Kerkhove
Born
Maria Rosanne DeJoseph

(1977-02-20) February 20, 1977 (age 47)
London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (PhD
, 2009)
Spouse
Neil Van Kerkhove
(m. 2003)
Children2
Scientific career
ThesisH5N1/highly pathogenic avian influenza in Cambodia : evaluating poultry movement and the extent of interaction between poultry and humans. (2009)

Maria DeJoseph Van Kerkhove (born February 20, 1977) is an American infectious disease

Health Emergencies Program at the World Health Organization (WHO).[1] She is the technical lead of COVID-19 response and the head of emerging diseases and zoonosis unit at WHO.[2][3]

Early life and education

Van Kerkhove was born Maria Rosanne DeJoseph in

In 2000, she received an M.S. in epidemiology from Stanford University School of Medicine.

In 2009, she earned a Ph.D. in infectious disease

London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, where she wrote her thesis on the avian flu in Cambodia.[10]

Career

Van Kerkhove began her research career while an undergraduate student at Cornell University. She worked as a research assistant with Eloy Rodriguez studying the medical plants of the Amazon. As a masters student, she continued as a research assistant at Stanford University Medical School.

From 2000 to 2005, Van Kerkhove was a senior epidemiologist at

Institut Pasteur
de Cambodia from 2006 to 2008, while conducting field studies on H5N1 for her Ph.D.

Van Kerkhove was a senior research fellow in the Medical Research Council Centre for Outbreak Analysis and Modelling at

MERS-CoV task force.[12]

From 2015 to 2017, Van Kerkhove was the head of the Outbreak Investigation Task Force at the Institut Pasteur’s Center for Global Health, conducting field research into surrounding

pathogenic avian influenza H5N1 (HPAI/H5N1), with a focus on transmission risk from poultry to humans.[11]

Van Kerkhove has been an honorary lecturer at Imperial College London since 2015.

Geneva, Switzerland, since March 2017. She is currently the head of the Emerging Diseases and Zoonoses Unit in the WHO Health Emergencies Programme. She also serves as the COVID-19 technical and health operations lead. As part of her work with WHO, Van Kerkhove appears in regular press conferences by WHO regarding the COVID-19 pandemic.[2][14] Van Kerkhove has provided answers to common questions about the pandemic. Van Kerkhove spent two weeks in China in February 2020 to better understand the COVID-19 pandemic and to understand how China was trying to control the virus.[1]

Personal life

Van Kerkhove lives in Geneva, Switzerland, with her husband Neil and two sons.[6]

Selected works and publications

See also

References

  1. ^ a b Kuzmanovic, Aleks; Van Kerkhove, Dr Maria (17 March 2020). "Q&A on Coronavirus - COVID-19 with WHO's Dr Maria Van Kerkhove". World Health Organization (WHO).
  2. ^ a b Lovelace, Berkeley Jr.; Higgins-Dunn, Noah; Feuer, William (16 March 2020). "WHO considers 'airborne precautions' for medical staff after study shows coronavirus can survive in air". CNBC.
  3. ^ Martin, Rachel; Van Kerkhove, Maria (20 March 2020). "What Has The WHO Learned Since The COVID-19 Outbreak Began?". NPR.
  4. ^ Segelken, Roger (10 January 1997). "Cornell student ethnobotany expeditions to Amazon, Yucatan may yield secrets of Indian herbal medicines". Cornell Chronicle. Retrieved 9 June 2020. Maria DeJoseph, a sophomore from central New York who traveled to the Yucatan, wants to pursue a Ph.D. in pharmacology, chemical ecology or ethnobotany.
  5. ^ "Finding Joy". Cornell74.org. Cornell Class of 1974. 22 April 2020. Retrieved 9 June 2020.
  6. ^ a b "2017 Institut Pasteur – OMI Seminar in Pandemics" (PDF). Institut Pasteur. August 2017.
  7. ^ Wilson, Reid (20 April 2020). "EXCLUSIVE: Meet the top American fighting COVID-19 at WHO". The Hill. Retrieved 9 June 2020. A native of New Hartford, N.Y., Van Kerkhove is one of a growing generation of global public health leaders...
  8. ^ Price, Dalton (25 March 2020). "Letter to the Editor: Let's Not Forget the Women, Van Kerkhove '99 Leads Global COVID-19 Response". The Cornell Daily Sun.
  9. ^ "Home - Dr Maria D Van Kerkhove". www.imperial.ac.uk. Retrieved 2022-02-14.
  10. (PDF) on 2020-04-13. Retrieved 2020-03-24.
  11. ^ a b c "Dr Maria D Van Kerkhove, Faculty of Medicine, School of Public Health - Honorary Lecturer". Imperial College London. Retrieved 25 March 2020.
  12. ^ "WHO: Biographies of the members of, and advisers to, the IHR Emergency Committee concerning Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV): Dr Maria Van Kerkhove, Head, Outbreak Investigation Task Force, Center for Global Health, Institut Pasteur, Paris, France". World Health Organization. Retrieved 20 March 2020.
  13. ^ "Member: Project Manager - Alumni Maria Van Kerkhove". 2008. Archived from the original on 15 February 2020.
  14. ^ "COVID-19 – Virtual Press conference 18 March, 2020" (PDF). World Health Organization. 18 March 2020.

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