Regents Professor and Director of the School for Global Animal Health
Washington State University
Guy Palmer is Regents Professor of Pathology and Infectious Diseases and Director of the School for Global Animal Health at Washington State University. Dr. Palmer's goal is to improve control of animal diseases with direct impact on human health and well-being. Within this focus, he has led collaborative infectious diseases research programs in southern and eastern Africa, the Middle East, and Latin America, where he currently directs a multi-institutional research effort studying genetic change in microbial pathogens and the risk for shifts in disease pattern and emergence. For his research at the interface of animal disease and human public health, Dr. Palmer was elected to membership in the National Academies Institute of Medicine and is a current member of the Global Health Group within the Institute. Dr. Palmer has been recently recognized with the Merck Award for creativity, the Schalm Lectureship at the University of California, and the Sahlin Award for Research, Scholarship, and the Arts. Currently, Dr. Palmer serves as an adviser to the Wellcome Trust, the International Science Foundation, and for the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation Trypanosomiasis Vaccine Project. Within Washington State University, Dr. Palmer directs the NIH Immunology Training Program, chairs the Graduate Program in Microbiology and Pathology, and is on the Steering Boards for the NIH Biotechnology Training Program and the University Biotechnology Center. Palmer received his DVM from Kansas State University and his PhD from Washington State University; he is board-certified in anatomic pathology.