Professor David Brett-Major is an Internal Medicine and Infectious Diseases physician and a Scholar of the UNMC Global Center for Health Security. He has worked at home, in South America, Africa, and Asia as a clinician, educator, researcher, and in health emergency risk management. At the University, he teaches infectious diseases epidemiology, conducts research, and works with both the Global Center for Health Security and the College of Medicine’s Division of Infectious Diseases. As a clinical scientist and medical epidemiologist, his research interests focus on risk, how it may be identified, characterized, and managed from patient- and community-centered vantages, particularly related to emerging and re- emerging infectious diseases.