Coordinating Team

Cheryl Stroud, DVM, PhD 

Executive Director, One Health Commission 

Immediate Past Chair, North Carolina One  Health Collaborative (NC OHC) 

Adjunct Assistant Professor, Department of Clinical Sciences, NC State University, College of Veterinary Medicine 

Immediate Past AVMA Representative One Health Commission 

Former Veterinary Clinician 

Area of Expertise: Bringing people together across disciplines 

Educational Background:    

• BS, DVM, Mississippi State University: 1974, 1981
• MS, PhD, North Carolina State University: 1985, 1990 

Phone numbers:  

• Business Line: 919- 800-8886
• Direct Line: 224-622-1839

E-mail address:     

cstroud@onehealthcommission.org 

Professional interests:

• One Health/Public Health, Small Animal Veterinary  
• Practice, Internal Medicine / Endocrinology    

Biographical Sketch:    

Dr. Stroud has enjoyed professional experiences in Industry, Academic Research / Teaching, Private Veterinary Practice and One Health. She grew up on a small, hobby farm in central Mississippi where she was surrounded by cows, horses, cats, dogs and open spaces. Before Veterinary School she worked in the Poultry Industry as Manager of a Quality Control lab for a prominent, vertically-integrated  poultry company. After graduation from Veterinary School she worked briefly in Veterinary practice before going to North Carolina State University College  of Veterinary Medicine for a Masters and PhD in Endocrine Physiology.  She then spent 8 years in basic research at Pennsylvania State University studying many topics, ranging from variant molecular forms of prolactin  and  growth  hormone  to  reproductive  cycles  of  women  from  populations  around  the  world. When her family moved to Illinois in 1996 for her husband, also a DVM, PhD, to become Director of the Division of Education and Research for the American Veterinary Medical Association, she returned to private Veterinary practice where she especially enjoyed internal medicine and  educating clients about zoonotic diseases.  

Dr.  Stroud’s  deep  passion  for  the  One  Health  concept  emerged  in  2008  when  she  returned  to North Carolina.  While networking around the Research Triangle Park region of N.C.  she identified a need to bring key Veterinary, Human, Public and Environmental health stakeholders in North Carolina together to work across disciplines. As a result of her exploratory efforts, in 2010 she helped create the North Carolina One Health Collaborative (NC OHC,  http://nconehealthcollaborative.weebly.com/index.html ) and for over three years chaired its Steering Committee which includes DVMs, PhDs, MDs and government officials from Duke University, University of North Carolina, NC State University, NC Department  of Agriculture and Consumer Services, NC Department of Public Health, to name  a few. Since its inception, the NC OHC has sponsored over 80 local One Health  Topic discussion sessions in  a One Health Intellectual Exchange  Group series  that  engages  MDs,  DVMs,  PhDs,  human  and  veterinary  medical  students  and public health graduate students. Continuing today, this discussion series evolved to include,  a parallel weekly series during spring semester, a One Health course that is cross listed at Duke, UNC and NCSU. The NC OHC hosted course will soon begin its 5th year of offerings.  

Dr. Stroud was selected as AVMA representative to the One Health Commission (OHC,   http://www.onehealthcommission.org/ ) in spring 2011, was appointed Vice Chair of the OHC Board in 2012 and became Executive Director of the Commission in September, 2013, moving the Commission from Iowa to North Carolina. Until that time she had enjoyed part time Clinical Veterinary Practice though her primary focus since 2010 has been educating, both locally and nationally,  about One Health.   In 2013 she also served on a National Biodefense Science Board working group on Situational Awareness, Strategic Implementation and Bio-Surveillance. Cheryl believes strongly in interdisciplinary collaborations and seeks, via the Commission, to connect One Health stakeholders into active Teams, creating strategic networks and  partnerships that will educate about all One Health Issues.   She and her husband have a grown son and daughter. In her ‘spare’  time  she  enjoys  horseback  riding,  gardening,  hiking,  writing,  sewing,  reading,  making  and  listening  to music and traveling both nationally and internationally.  

Her forte is bringing people together. 

AB OSTERHAUS, Professor of Wildlife Virology and Virus Discovery, Hannover, Germany 

Professor Osterhaus has been Head of the Department of Viroscience at Erasmus MC Rotterdam until 2014, is currently Director of the Center of Infection Medicine and Zoonosis Research and Guest-Professor at the University of Veterinary Medicine Hannover. He has a long track record as a scientific researcher and Principal Investigator of numerous major scientific projects. At Erasmus MC, Professor Osterhaus has run a diagnostic virology lab with more than 40 staff and a research virology lab with over 150 personnel. His research programme follows a novel integrated “viroscience” concept, bringing together world- leading scientists in molecular virology, immunology, epidemiology, pathogenesis, and intervention studies on human and animal virus infections. Among the major accomplishments are the discovery of more than 70 new viruses of humans and animals (e.g. human metapneumovirus, coronaviruses and influenza viruses), elucidation of the pathogenesis of major human and animal virus infections, and development of novel intervention strategies. This has enabled health authorities like the WHO to effectively combat disease outbreaks like SARS and avian influenza. The spin-offs, Viroclinics-DDL, Vironovative and CR2O, together employing more than 500 people, allow effective testing and refining of diagnostic tools and other intervention strategies and illustrate additional societally relevant successes. The international recognition of Professor Osterhaus is further highlighted by major prizes, guest lecture invitations, (co-)organiserships of international meetings and editorships of scientific journals. 

Professor Osterhaus has acted as mentor for more than 85 PhD students and holds several key patents. He is also the author of more than 1360 papers in peer-reviewed journals, together cited 90,000 times, with an H index 130. He is inventor on many patents and has been Chair of the European Working Group on Influenza (ESWI) for the past decades and is presently chair of the Global One Health Commission. He organised numerous international scientific conferences on influenza and other emerging infections, and received numerous prestigious awards. He holds several senior editorships and is Chief Editor of One Health Outlook, a newly established journal of the Springer-Nature group. He is member of the Dutch and German National Academies of Sciences, member of the Belgium Academia of Medicine, and Commander of the Order of the Dutch Lion.

For almost 20 years, Dr. Laura H. Kahn was a research scholar with the Program on Science and Global Security at the Princeton School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University. Her education and training encompass nursing, medicine, public health, and public policy. 

In April 2006, she published Confronting Zoonoses, Linking Human and Veterinary Medicine in the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) Journal of Emerging Infectious Diseases which helped launch the One Health Initiative, a global movement promoting the health of all species by increasing communication and collaboration between human, animal, plant, environmental, and ecosystem health professionals. 

Princeton University awarded her course, Hogs, Bats, and Ebola: An Introduction to One Health Policy, with a 250th Anniversary Fund for Innovation in Undergraduate Education. She converted the course into a free, online Coursera course, Bats, Ducks, and Pandemics: An Introduction to One Health Policy that enrolled over 9000 students from around the world from 2020 to 2023. 

Dr. Kahn is the author of several books. The first, Who’s in Charge? Leadership during epidemics, bioterror attacks, and other public health crises, was originally published in 2009 by Praeger Security International. In 2020, a second edition was issued with a new preface discussing leadership during the COVID-19 pandemic. Her second book, One Health and the Politics of Antimicrobial Resistance, was published in June 2016 by Johns Hopkins University Press. Her third book, One Health and the Politics of COVID-19, will be published in 2024 by Johns Hopkins University Press. She has written many online columns for the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists and has published in many peer-reviewed journals. 

A native of California, Dr. Kahn holds a bachelor’s degree in nursing from UC Los Angeles, a doctorate in medicine from the Mt. Sinai School of Medicine, a master’s degree in public health from Columbia University and a master’s degree in public policy from Princeton University. Dr. Kahn is a fellow of the American College of Physicians. In 2007, the New Jersey Chapter of the American College of Physicians awarded her with their highest honor, the Laureate Award. In 2014, the American Association of Public Health Physicians awarded her with a Presidential Award for Meritorious Service, and in 2016, the American Veterinary Epidemiology Society (AVES) awarded her with their highest honor for her work in One Health: the K.F. Meyer-James H. Steele Gold Head Cane Award.

• Director, Health Advancement & Prevention Strategies, Lehigh University
• Associate Executive Director, One Health Commission
• Owner, Public Health Group, LLC 

Peter Costa is Director of the Health Advancement & Prevention Strategies Office at Lehigh University which exists to support student success by examining and addressing preventable health issues that affect academic performance. Peter received his Master of Public Health degree from East Stroudsburg University in 2005 with a concentration in Community Health Education and he is a Master Certified Health Education Specialist. He started his public health career at the Bethlehem Health Bureau in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania where he worked as a Community Health Specialist under a Public Health Preparedness & Response Grant. From there Peter accepted a position with the North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services, Division of Public Health. In this role, as both an Epidemiologist and Public Health Educator, he directed statewide educational and training efforts on environmental emergency response; developed syndromic surveillance and response protocols; and led community-based health promotion and exposure prevention awareness programs for environmental hazards having the potential to harm public health. Prior to accepting his role at Lehigh in October 2012, Peter served as the Director of Education, Outreach and Communications for the non-profit 501 (c)(3), Global Alliance for Rabies Control. In this role he directed the development, implementation and evaluation of international health communication, education and prevention outreach activities including management and global coordination of the largest rabies awareness campaign, World Rabies Day, held in 150 countries. Now at Lehigh University, Peter is tasked with developing and implementing a high-level strategic plan that fully coordinates all prevention-related efforts and supports Lehigh's core competencies for student learning and personal development. The creation of Peter's office and position represents a paradigm shift in the way Lehigh addresses student health through prevention and a shift from individual- to population-level prevention; and from direct health education to program, policy and coalition development. This approach brings Lehigh University into greater alignment with best practices among institutions of higher education and demonstrates Lehigh's strong commitment to being a national leader in prevention.

Dr. Bruce Kaplan, a retired veterinarian, lives in Sarasota, Florida. He formerly worked as an Editor/Writer/Public Affairs consultant. Until October 2001, he was editing/writing the Ask a Veterinarian column in the St. Petersburg Times. Dr. Kaplan currently devotes his time to promoting the “One Health” movement with One Health collaborators, the One Health Initiative Autonomous pro bono Team: Laura H. Kahn, MD, MPH, MPP ▪ Bruce Kaplan, DVM ▪ Thomas P. Monath, MD ▪ Lisa A. Conti, DVM, MPH ▪ Thomas M. Yuill, PhD ▪ Helena J. Chapman, MD, MPH, PhD ▪ Craig N. Carter, DVM, PhD ▪ Becky Barrentine, MBA. 

A One Health leader, he is the primary contents manager for the One Health Initiative website https://onehealthinitiative.com/ and previously served as Contributing Editor on the editorial board of the One Health Newsletter https://onehealthinitiative.com/newsletter/ when it was actively operated by the University of Florida (USA). He also currently serves on the Veterinaria Italiana Journal’s Scientific Advisory Board http://www.izs.it/vet_italiana/scadvboard_vet_it.htm, and is a member of the American Veterinary Epidemiology Society (AVES) Board. 

Dr. Kaplan has written, co-authored and edited numerous articles for newspapers such as a pet care column for three years in the Louisville Courier-Journal and scientific publications such as the Inspection Insights food safety column for three years in the Journal of the American Veterinary Medical Association (AVMA) for the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS). Over the years, he has published many scientific articles on canine and feline medical and surgical concepts in veterinary medical professional journals. 

He has co-authored the Food Safety in the United States chapter in a 1998 American Society of Microbiology (ASM) book about organisms causing foodborne illness such as the dangerous strain of E. coli O157:H7 featured so prominently in the news. Dr. Kaplan also co-authored another ASM book chapter published in March 2000, Campylobacter Prevention and Control: the USDA-Food Safety and Inspection Service Role and New Food Safety Approaches; this discusses the most common cause of bacterial foodborne illness in the United States. He co-authored the Jan-March 2007 Veterinaria Italiana article, Confronting zoonoses through closer collaboration between medicine and veterinary medicine (as ‘one medicine’) http://www.izs.it/vet_italiana/2007/43_1/5_19.pdf and the March 2008 The American Journal of Medicine, Teaching “One Medicine, One Health” http://www.amjmed.com/article/S00029343%2807%2901082-0/abstract. Dr. Kaplan co-edited a unique ‘first of its kind’ One Health monograph in the Veterinaria Italiana Journal’s 2009 - Volume 45 (1), January-March http://www.izs.it/vet_italiana/2009/45_1/45_1.htm with Drs. Kahn, and Monath and also coauthored the introductory chapter to the recent 2010 groundbreaking ‘first of its kind’ One Health book “Human-Animal Medicine – Clinical Approaches to Zoonoses, Toxicants and other Shared Health Risks” http://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/16/6/10-0367_article. He co-authored the One Health Initiative team’s April 2013 “One Health Initiative Advances Care for Humans, Animals and the Environment” publication in Horizon Solutions Site http://www.solutionssite.org/node/875; co-edited the First Edition, 2013 book “Zoonoses: Protecting People and Their Pets http://www.cfsph.iastate.edu/Products/zoonoses-protecting-people-and-th…, Iowa State University (USA); co-authored the One Health chapter “One Health approach for preventing and controlling tuberculosis in animals and humans” in Zoonotic Tuberculosis: Mycobacterium bovis and Other Pathogenic Mycobacteria, 3rd Edition, 2014 http://www.wiley.com/WileyCDA/WileyTitle/productCd-1118474295,subjectCd…; and co-edited the 2014 One Health book “Confronting Emerging Zoonoses – The One Health Paradigm” http://www.springer.com/978-4-431-55119-5 with Akio Yamada, DVM, PhD and the One Health Initiative team. 

Dr. Kaplan practiced veterinary medicine for over 23 years. He has held positions in public health with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) as an epidemiologist and the USDA's Office of Public Health and Science in Washington, D.C. He also served as the USDAFSIS public affairs specialist in California for 14 western states. Dr. Kaplan earned his Doctor of Veterinary Medicine Degree (D.V.M.) from Auburn University in 1963. Listed in Who’s Who in America-65^th Ed. 2011 and 66^th Ed. 2012, his awards include the AVMA's Practitioner Research Award, the USDA's Group Honor Award for Excellence, an Honorary Diploma from the American Veterinary Epidemiology Society (AVES), the Karl F. Meyer-James H. Steele Gold Headed Cane Award (2012), an American Association of Public Health Physicians Presidential Award for Meritorious Service (2013) and the AVMA Meritorious Service Award (2017) https://www.avma.org/javma-news/2017-09-15/meritorious-service-award-go…;

May 2020 

Curriculum Vitae upon request

Joanne Lindemayer, DVM, MPH, is Chair of the One Health Commission Board of Directors and a member of the One Health Education Task Force. Previously she served as Senior Manager of Disaster Operations and Haiti Program with the Humane Society International and at Tufts University Cummings School of Veterinary Medicine, she directed and taught courses based on the One Health approach. She also taught in the School’s Conservation Medicine Master’s degree program. She and her faculty colleagues from the Medical School and the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences led a seminar titled, “One Health: Interdisciplinary approaches to the health of people, animals and the environment.” 

A former EIS Officer and Fellow in the CDC’s State-based Epidemiology for Public Health Practice Program, Dr. Lindenmayer is a past chair of the Public Health Committee of the Association of American Veterinary Medical Colleges. She was the recipient of a One Health grant from the Rockefeller Foundation and, along with colleagues in Indonesia and Thailand, assessed the application of One Health by veterinarians during the avian influenza pandemic in Southeast Asia. She is former Co-Principal Investigator for the Cummings School award from USAID’s RESPOND component of its Emerging Pandemics Threats Program which aims to improve the capacity of health professionals from human, animal and environmental health to collaborate in responding to outbreaks of emergent zoonotic diseases. Dr. Lindenmayer cochaired the National Stakeholders meeting organized by the Alliance for the Prudent Use of Antibiotics (APUA) and sponsored by the Pew Charitable Trusts on the use of antimicrobials in food animal production. She received the 2013 Roy Montgomery Award from the EvidenceBased Veterinary Medical Association for developing a biostatistics course using the flipped classroom model for practicing veterinarians. 

Dr. Lindenmayer’s primary research interests include using electronic veterinary medical records for animal and human population health, animal sentinels for infectious diseases, antimicrobial resistance and environmental contaminants, and integration of veterinarians into the public health system. She is owned by four dogs and two cats.

Dr. Thomas P. Monath, a physician, is a consultant to the biotechnology industry. Dr. Monath is currently managing partner and chief scientific officer Crozet BioPharma https://www.crozetbiopharma.com/. He also serves as a Consultant to BioProtection Systems/NewLink Genetics Corp. and was previously Chief Scientific and Chief Operations Officer the Corporation’s whollyowned subsidiary, BioProtection Systems Corp. where he helped determine if the Canadian/NewLink Ebola vaccine candidate will provide part of the solution to one of the world’s biggest public health challenges. He was formerly Chief Medical Officer of Hookipa BioTech AG and Chief Technical Officer of PaxVax Inc, where he was also engaged in development of new vaccines. His expertise and experience cut across discovery research, process and analytical development, manufacturing, preclinical and clinical development, and regulatory affairs. Monath is also a Venture Partner at Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers and is a Director of Sentinext plc, Rapid MicroBiosystems Inc, and U.S. Biologics Inc. 

Between 1992-2012 he was Adjunct Professor, Harvard School of Public Health. Between 1992 and 2006. Dr. Monath was Chief Scientific Officer and an Executive Director, Acambis plc (a publicly traded biopharmaceutical company recently acquired by Sanofi Pasteur) where he pioneered the development of ChimeriVax® vaccines against dengue, West Nile, and Japanese encephalitis (using yellow fever as a live vector), vaccines against yellow fever, Clostridium difficile, and Helicobacter pylori, as well as a cell based smallpox vaccine, ACAM2000 which has now replaced calf lymph vaccine in the US national stockpile. The JE vaccine (IMOJEV®) is licensed in multiple countries; the West Nile vaccine (Prevenile®) is licensed for use in horses; and the dengue and C. difficile vaccines are in Phase III trials. 

Dr. Monath received his undergraduate and M.D. degrees from Harvard and trained in internal medicine at the Peter Bent Brigham Hospital, Boston. COL Monath retired from the US Army in 1992 after 24 years in the uniformed services (Army and U.S. Public Health Service). Between 1973-1988, he was Director, Division of Vector-Borne Viral Diseases, U. S. Centers for Disease Control (CDC), Fort Collins CO and from 1989-92 Chief, Virology Division, U.S. Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases (USAMRIID). He has worked overseas in Nigeria, Sierra Leone, Cameroun, Argentina, Ecuador and elsewhere doing field research on arboviruses and hemorrhagic fevers. In 1972, he discovered the rodent reservoir of Lassa fever virus. He is on the editorial board of 5 scientific journals. 

He received the Nathanial A. Young Award (1984), the Richard M. Taylor Award (1996), and the Walter Reed Medal (2002) from the American Society of Tropical Medicine & Hygiene and was President of that Society (2004-05). He has served on numerous government and international committees on infectious diseases, biosecurity, World Health Organization expert committees and the National Vaccines Advisory Committee (USA). From 1998-2000, Monath was Senior Science advisor to the Director, Central Intelligence Agency. Dr. Monath has published 400 papers and 6 books on the epidemiology, immunology and pathogenesis of arboviruses and on vaccine development. A leader in the “One Health” movement http://www.onehealthinitiative.com/publications/2ST26%20B%20Kaplan%20%2…, Dr. Monath served on the American Veterinary Medical Association’s “One Health” Task Force and subsequently the One Health Commission (USA). He currently co-manages the One Health Initiative website http://www.onehealthinitiative.com with Laura H. Kahn, MD, MPH, MPP, Bruce Kaplan, DVM, Jack Woodall, PhD and Lisa A. Conti, DVM, MPH. Dr. Monath co-edited a unique ‘first of its kind’ One Health monograph in the Veterinaria Italiana Journal’s 2009 - Volume 45 (1), January-March http://www.izs.it/vet_italiana/2009/45_1/45_1.htm with Drs. Kahn and Kaplan. They also co-authored the introductory chapter to the 2010 One Health book “Human-Animal Medicine – Clinical Approaches to Zoonoses, Toxicants and other Shared Health Risks” http://www.us.elsevierhealth.com/product.jsp?isbn=9781416068372 and co-edited the 2014 One Health book “Confronting Emerging Zoonoses – The One Health Paradigm” http://www.springer.com/978-4-431-55119-5 with Akio Yamada, DVM, PhD and the One Health Initiative team. 

April 2018 

Curriculum vitae available upon request