Dr. Guy Palmer is Regents Professor of Pathology and Infectious Diseases and Director of the Washington State University School for Global Animal Health. Dr. Palmer’s research focus is on improving control of animal diseases with direct impact on human health and well-being. For his research at the interface of animal disease and human public health, Dr. Palmer was elected to membership in the National Academy of Sciences Institute of Medicine and is a current member of the Global Health Group. Dr. Palmer serves as a member of the founding Board of Directors of the Washington State Academy of Sciences and of the Executive Committee of the Washington Vaccine Alliance. He is the Chair of the NIH study section on host interaction with bacterial infections and presently serves as an adviser to the Gates Foundation on vaccine development to prevent African sleeping sickness, the Wellcome Trust, and to the U.S. National Institutes of Health. Within Washington State University he chairs the Graduate program in Microbiology and Pathology, and directs the Infectious Diseases and Microbial Immunology Post-doctoral Training Program.