Guy Palmer DVM, PhD holds the Jan and Jack Creighton Endowed Chair at Washington State University (WSU) where he is Regents Professor of Pathology & Infectious Diseases. The founding director of WSU’s Paul G. Allen School for Global Animal Health, he currently leads university-wide efforts as Senior Director of Global Health.  A board-certified veterinary pathologist, Dr. Palmer leads global health programs in Africa and Central America as well as directing the Robert R. Fast Infectious Diseases Research Laboratory.  He heads the NIH Training Program in Infectious Diseases and holds a NIH MERIT award for research on pathogen emergence. He holds a joint appointment at the Nelson Mandela African Institution of Science and Technology and directs the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation supported Integrated PhD Program between WSU and the Mandela Institution.  He also serves as the President of Global Animal Health-Tanzania (Arusha) and as Chairman of WSU Global Health-Kenya (Nairobi).

            Dr. Palmer was elected to the U.S. National Academy of Medicine in 2006 and is an AAAS Medical Sciences Fellow.  Dr. Palmer has been recognized with Cornell’s Poppensiek Professorship, the IBM Professorship at Colby College, the Schalm Lecturership at the University of California, the Ramsey Lectureship at Iowa State University, the Distinguished Scientist Lectureship at NIH, the Science in Medicine Lectureship at the University of Washington, and the Merck Award for Creativity. Dr. Palmer holds honorary doctorates from the University of Bern (Dr.Med.Vet, 2011) and Kansas State University (PhD, 2016).