Maria Van Kerkhove

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Born	Maria Rosanne DeJoseph, February 20, 1977, New Hartford, New York, U.S.
Age	49 years
Education	Cornell University (BS, 1999), Stanford University (MS, 2000), London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (PhD, 2009)
Thesis	H5N1/highly pathogenic avian influenza in Cambodia: evaluating poultry movement and the extent of interaction between poultry and humans. (2009)
Children	2

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Maria DeJoseph Van Kerkhove is an American infectious disease epidemiologist. With a background in high-threat pathogens, Van Kerkhove specializes in emerging and re-emerging infectious diseases and is based in the Health Emergencies Program at the World Health Organization (WHO). She is the technical lead of COVID-19 response and the head of emerging diseases and zoonosis unit at WHO.

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