Kevin Bardosh, PhD, has been the Director and Head of Research at Collateral Global since the fall of 2023.

A medical anthropologist, he has worked in more than 20 countries on a wide variety of infectious disease and health system projects. He has designed and implemented large-scale public health programs focused on sanitation, vector control, vaccination, food safety, and outbreak response. Much of his work prior to 2020 focused on neglected tropical diseases, Ebola, zoonotic diseases like sleeping sickness and rabies, and vector-borne diseases such as dengue and malaria.

Kevin is the editor of two books, Locating Zika: Social Change and Governance in an Age of Mosquito Pandemics (2019) and One Health: Science, Politics and Zoonotic Disease in Africa (2016). He has co-authored more than 50 peer-reviewed scientific papers and numerous book chapters and reports. He is a regular contributor to the British online news outlet Unherd.

Kevin previously held academic positions at the School of Public Health, University of Washington, Edinburgh Medical School, University of Edinburgh, and The Emerging Pathogens Institute, University of Florida. Prior to joining Collateral Global, he was also long-term consultant to The Carter Center’s Hispaniola program.

He is currently an Evidence Informed Fellow at Kellogg College, University of Oxford.

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