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EXAMPLE OF A VISIONARY “ONE HEALTH” PHYSICIAN ACTIVIST/ADVOCATE   Gregory C. Gray, MD, MPH, FIDSA, Professor, Medicine, Environmental Health and Global Health Professor, Duke University School of Medicine, Duke Infectious Diseases & Duke Global Health Institute, Durham, North Carolina (USA) and Program in Emerging Infectious Diseases Duke-NUS Graduate Medical School Singapore. Formerly, Director, One Health Center of Excellence for Research & Training, Professor Department of Environmental and Global Health, College of Public Health and Health Professions, and Infectious Diseases and Pathology, College of Veterinary Medicine, University of Florida (USA). (919) 684-1032 gregory.gray@duke.edu Visit Website Download CV     Duke Medicine Professor, Division of Infectious Diseases, Global Health Institute, & Nicholas School of the Environment, Duke University DUMC Box 102359, Durham, NC 27710 Tel: +1-919-684-1032 Duke-NUS Medical School, Singapore Professor, Program in Emerging Infectious Diseases 8 College Road, Singapore 169857 Tel: +65-16-7666 DukeKunshan University, China Professor, Global Health No. 8 Duke Avenue, Kunshan, Jiangsu, China 215316 Tel: +86-400-892-0508 Duke One Health: http://sites.globalhealth.duke.edu/dukeonehealth/       Summary IN FULL sEE: https://globalhealth.duke.edu/people/faculty/gray-gregory AND https://medicine.duke.edu/faculty/gregory-c-gray-md Dr. Gregory C. Gray, a physician, is a member of the One Health Initiative team’s Advisory Board http://www.onehealthinitiative.com/advBoard.php and a Professor at Duke University with 3 affiliations: the Division of Infectious Diseases in Duke Universitys School of Medicine, Duke Global Health Institute, and Duke Nicholas School of the Environment. He also serves part-time as a Professor in the Program in Emerging Infectious Diseases at Duke-NUS Medical School, Singapore and as a Professor of Global Health at Duke Kunshan University in China.   Dr. Gray has visiting professorship positions in six other academic institutions in China, Romania, Australia, and the USA. His medical boards are in Preventive Medicine and Public Health. Gray has conducted diverse epidemiological studies of infectious diseases for 25 years in 5 continents. Much of his work has involved identifying risk factors for occupational diseases, particularly for infectious diseases. He has studied numerous occupational groups including farmers, animal breeders, veterinarians, military personnel, turkey workers, poultry workers, horse workers, hunters, and pig workers.   A strong supporter and champion of the One Health approach, Gray has won multiple One Health research and training grants, established two centers of One Health (USA & Romania) and developed 4 graduate programs in One Health (PhD [the first known internationally], MHS, Certificate and Program) when he directed the One Health program at the University of Florida, Gainesville, FL (USA); while there he helped support and champion the exceptional One Health Newsletter http://epi.ufl.edu/onehealth/news/one-health-newsletter/. He has mentored more than 50 graduate students, postdocs, and international scholars in research and often guides their work to peer-reviewed publication.    He has served on numerous national expert advisory committees including those associated with the US Armed Forces Epidemiological Board, the Infectious Disease Society of America, and the Institute of Medicine. He has authored more than 260 scientific reports and book chapters in the peer-reviewed medical literature. Currently, he serves on the Editorial Board for the journals Influenza and Other Respiratory Viruses and Tropical Diseases,Travel Medicine and Vaccines.   Gray was recently recognized in an April 10, 2017 One Health Initiative website NEWS item https://goo.gl/Q0kFvl entitled “PHYSICIANS in the One Health Vanguard!”