Guy Palmer holds the Creighton Endowed Chair in Global Health and is Regents Professor of Pathology & Infectious Diseases. The founding Director of the Paul G. Allen School for Global Health, he is currently WSU’s Senior Director of Global Health and serves as Chair of WSU Global Health-Kenya and President of Global Animal Health-Tanzania. He is the Director of Rabies Free Africa, which is committed to ending human deaths due to rabies. Dr. Palmer was elected to the National Academy of Medicine in 2006, is a Medical Sciences Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and is a founding member of the Washington State Academy of Sciences, where he served as President from 2012-13. He holds appointments at the University of Nairobi, the University of Washington, the Nelson Mandela Institute, the Universidad del Valle de Guatemala and at the National Academies of Science, Engineering, and Medicine.