James English

WORK HISTORY

EDUCATION

ABOUT JAMES ENGLISH

National Program Leader and Technical Advisor with a demonstrated history of working in USG, DoD, Higher Education, NGOs, Allied Governments and Industry. Skilled in Program Leadership, Development and Evaluation, Biosurveillance of Biological Threats, Animal Ecology, Disease and Pathogen Ecology, Integrated Vector Mgmt, and International Capacity Building to meet strategic goals. I lead groups of visionary highly skilled scientists and multi-disciplinary thinkers to solve intractable problems that usually transform the fields I work in. I usually work in systems during times of abrupt and significant change, which requires realignment, vision-sharing, communication, technology transfer, paradigm shifts, and economically.Half my career spent in Applied Public Health, One Health & Disease Vector Scientist and Education Leadership with a history of Capacity Building in Global Public Health context, designing and implementing programs to meet strategic goals, building capacity to implement country-specific programs, and measuring success toward meeting those goals. The balance has been spent developing National programs in the U.S, including US Navy & Marine Corps West Nile Virus plan, building a next-gen satellite/remote imagery arthropod-borne global risk analysis mapping system for military use, Directing the Notre Dame Environmental Research Center, serving as Department Chair and Academic Director of a Sustainability Center and Environmental Science graduate and undergraduate program at a University, serving the World Health Organization and Pan-American Health Organization (WHO, PAHO) as a technical expert and liaison to Department of Defense, serving on re-accreditation and new-program accreditation bodies for institutions of higher education, and more recently serving the Department of Interior as USGS\'s Invasive Species Program Manager before become its Biosurveillance Network Coordinator and developing the National Early Detection Rapid Response Framework for Invasive Species, which has me working across Federal government, States, Tribes, Territories, with Universities, NGOs and Internationally to change how resource managers address invasive species but becoming more proactive, predictive and coordinated.