Guy Palmer
Executive Director, Rabies Free Africa
- Role
- Research Professor of Tropical Infectious Diseases at University Of Nairobi
- Location
- Pullman, WA, US
- LinkedIn followers
- 500 followers
About Guy Palmer
Guy Palmer is Executive Director of Rabies Free Africa, committed to ending human and animal suffering across the African continent. Regents Professor Emeritus of Pathology & Infectious Diseases at Washington State University (WSU), he holds a position in the Division of Microbiology and Infectious Diseases at the National Institutes of Health, where he serves on the Council for the National Institutes of Allergy and Infectious Diseases. The founding director of WSU’s Paul G. Allen School for Global Health and inaugural Jan & Jack Creighton Endowed Chair, he currently holds positions at the University of Nairobi Institute of Tropical Infectious Diseases, the Nelson Mandela African Institute of Science and Technology in Tanzania, the Universidad del Valle de Guatemala, and with Kansas State University. He serves on the Board of Directors for WSU Global Health-Kenya in Nairobi and Global Health-Tanzania in Arusha. Dr. Palmer was elected to the National Academy of Medicine in 2006, is a Medical Sciences Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, a Fellow of the American Academy of Microbiology, and is a founding member of the Washington State Academy of Sciences, where he served as President from 2012-13. Following his clinical training in veterinary medicine and residency in pathology, Dr. Palmer earned a PhD in Infectious Diseases from WSU and completed a NIH fellowship in vaccine immunology. He holds honorary doctorates from the University of Bern (Switzerland) where he completed his fellowship in the Institute of Pathology, and from Kansas State University, where he chaired the Advisory Board for the Biosecurity Institute. He has been recognized with the Poppensiek Professorship at Cornell, the IBM Professorship at Colby College, the Schalm Lecturership at the University of California, the Distinguished Scientist Lectureship at NIH, the Science in Medicine Lectureship at the University of Washington, and the Merck Award for Creativity.
Experience
Research Professor of Tropical Infectious Diseases
Jan 2024 — Present · Nairobi, KE
Education
Kansas State University
Bachelor of Science (BS), Biology
1973 — 1977
Kansas State University
DVM, Veterinary Medicine
1976 — 1980
Washington State University
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Microbiology and Immunology
1980 — 1984
American College of Veterinary Pathologists
Board certification, Pathology and Laboratory Medicine
1980 — 1984
Skills
- Global Health
- Research
- Nonprofits
- Teaching
- Higher Education
- Community Outreach
- Life Sciences
- Bioinformatics
- Statistics
- Public Speaking
- Infectious Diseases
- Science
- Laboratory Skills
- University Teaching
- Laboratory
- Molecular Biology
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