Institute for Diseases and Disaster Management – The Team
The Team
Dr. Syra Madad, Principal Investigator
Dr. Laura Iavicoli, Senior Medical Advisor for Emergency Medicine
Dr. Michael Meguerdichian, Senior Medical Advisor for Simulation
About the Principal Investigators
Dr. Syra Madad, DHSc, MSc, MCP is an internationally recognized public health leader and epidemiologist in infectious disease and special pathogens preparedness and response. She serves as the Principal Investigator at the Institute of Disaster and Disaster Management and Chief Biopreparedness Officer at New York City Health + Hospitals. She is also Core Faculty in the National Emerging Special Pathogens Training and Education Center (NETEC), and Fellow at Harvard Kennedy School’s Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs. Dr. Madad’s work focuses on the preparedness for, response to and recovery from infectious disease outbreaks with an emphasis on healthcare and public health biopreparedness. She’s responded to multiple infectious disease outbreaks including Ebola, Zika, measles and COVID-19. Dr. Madad is featured in 2 documentaries, the Netflix docuseries, Pandemic: How to Prevent an Outbreak and the Discovery documentary, The Vaccine: Conquering COVID.
Email: syra.madad@nychhc.org
Dr. Richard James Salway MD, MSc, CHEP
