Christopher LeBoa

Mr. LeBoa will spend his fellowship year at the International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research (iccdr,b) in Bangladesh under the mentorship of Nadia Rimi, MS, Layla Kwong, PhD, and Jay Graham, PhD, MBA, MPH. His research will focus on preventing airborne spillover of highly pathogenic avian influenza in Bangladeshi live poultry markets.

Mr. LeBoa is a PhD student at the University of California, Berkeley. He hopes to work between government and non-government actors globally to implement interventions meant to reduce infectious disease spillover, especially in areas of migration and displacement. He believes that the way work happens and the relationships between people are as important as the goals of the research itself. He is influenced by scholars like Sibyl Diver and Emily Polk in their work organizing multidisciplinary teams. He will walk in the footsteps of Drs. Steve Luby and Jason Andrews who work between government and academics fluidly.