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Jean-paul Gonzalez

Jean-paul Gonzalez MD, PhD, MS

Medicine
Kansas City, Kansas, United States of America

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Dr. Jean-Paul J. Gonzalez is Deputy Director of the Center of Excellence for Emerging and Zoonotic Animal Diseases (CEEZAD) at Kansas State University. A graduate of Bordeaux University’s Medical School, Dr. Gonzalez was named deputy director in February of 2017. He came to CEEZAD following a lengthy career that included an assignment as science advisor for Health For Development, an international entity committed to extending accessibility to health care to under-served regions. Based in Washington and Paris, he specialized in development of advanced biosurveillance tools and strategies as well as capacity building within the framework of global biosurveillance. Prior to that he was a senior staff scientist specializing in emerging diseases and biosecurity for Metabiota Inc., which is headquartered in San Francisco.
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