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Gavin H. Harris, Non-Member Physician

Emory University School of Medicine, Georgia

Gavin H Harris, MD is originally from New York, attending college at Columbia University, medical school at the State University of New York Downstate Health Sciences University School of Medicine and internal medicine residency and chief residency at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine in the Bronx. Dr. Harris then completed fellowships in Infectious Diseases & Critical Care Medicine at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine and a fellowship in biosecurity at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health Center for Health Security. He joined Emory University in 2020 and now holds joint appointments in Critical Care Medicine and Infectious Diseases.
He has been a member of the Serious Communicable Diseases Program (SCDP) and Serious Communicable Diseases Unit (SCDU) in varying capacities for some time, with professional interests in disaster preparedness and response, medical countermeasures, and high consequence infectious diseases. He was the founding director of SCDP’s Project ECHO preparedness series, developed the Region IV SitRep platform, co-developed the Region IV Special Pathogens Frontline Preparedness Course, which has trained healthcare and EMS professionals across the southeastern US, and served as the SCDP Director of Education and Outreach from 2023-2025. He is currently the SCDP Director of Regional Education & Training and International Engagement, and an associate medical director of the SCDU. Regionally and nationally, he serves as the Biothreats lead for the Southeastern Regional Disaster Response System, an adult subject matter expert for the National Emerging Special Pathogens Training and Education Center (NETEC) in multiple capacities, and co-chairs the joint NETEC/Infectious Disease Society of America (IDSA)/Task Force for Mass Critical Care Viral Hemorrhagic Fevers Critical Care Guidance Task Force. He was also recently appointed to IDSA's national pandemic preparedness education committee. Internationally, he sits on the World Health Organization’s Technical Advisory Group for Therapeutics Prioritization.

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