KANYA LONG

Kanya Long is a virologist and public health policy researcher. She is currently an Assistant Adjunct Professor in the new Herbert Wertheim School of Public Health and Human Longevity Science at UCSD. Prior to this, Kanya served as Roger Revelle Fellow in Global Stewardship, an endowed AAAS Science & Technology Policy Fellowship position, and Health Specialist in the Agriculture Global Practice at the World Bank, working with a program to expand laboratory and disease surveillance capacity in West Africa... Kanya aims to design disease surveillance strategies and foster collaborations that will lead to more equitable public health policies. Currently, Kanya is working with others to identify methods for self-governance in the development and testing of gene drive organisms for public health and conservation. She has a long-standing interest in reducing divides between the laboratory and field, with current work to understand how community engagement can guide the development of new..