Joseph Fair

Joseph Fair is a virologist and former vice president and director of research and development for Metabiota, Inc.[1][2] Since March 2020 he has been a science contributor for the American television network NBC.[3]

Joseph Fair
Alma materTulane University, Loyola University
Scientific career
FieldsVirology
InstitutionsMetabiota, Inc., NBC

Education

After briefly attending the University of Kentucky, Fair received his bachelor's degree in biology from Loyola University New Orleans, and his M.P.H. and Ph.D. in molecular biology from Tulane University.[4]

Work

Fair is known for his work with hemorrhagic fevers notably Ebola and Lassa fever (LHF),[1] as well as the tracking and biosurveillance of infectious diseases.[1]

From April 2008 to April 2014, Fair was a corporate vice-president at Metabiota, Inc. (formerly Global Viral Forecasting, Inc.). He then worked as a consulting advisor to Fondation Mérieux.[2] From 2015 to 2017 he was a chief adviser in Global Health Surveillance & Diagnostics for MRIGlobal and a Senior Fellow in Global Health Security at Pennsylvania State University.[5] In 2018 he worked with International Medical Corps.[6] Since January 2018 he has been a Senior Fellow at the Scowcroft Institute of International Affairs at the Bush School of Government and Public Service, Texas A&M University.[5]

In 2020, Fair was hospitalized with flu-like symptoms and was initially believed by his doctors to have caught COVID-19.[7] Later testing, however, revealed it was not COVID; the cause of his illness remains unknown.[8]

References
  1. "Joseph Fair". American Society for Microbiology. Archived from the original on 19 May 2020. Retrieved 14 May 2020.
  2. "A Virologist Takes You Inside the Ebola Protective Suit". NPR. Archived from the original on 9 May 2020. Retrieved 16 April 2020.
  3. "Joseph Fair". IMDb. Archived from the original on 2017-02-15. Retrieved 2020-07-03.
  4. "Alumnus is working front lines of Ebola outbreak in West Africa - Loyola University New Orleans". www.loyno.edu. Archived from the original on 2015-09-07. Retrieved 2020-07-03.
  5. "Senior fellows: Joseph Fair". Bush School of Government and Public Service. Archived from the original on 14 November 2018.
  6. "Ebola in DRC: Q&A with Dr. Joseph Fair". Outbreak Observatory. Archived from the original on 2022-04-01. Retrieved 2020-07-04.
  7. "Virologist hospitalized with coronavirus believes he got it through his eyes". NBC News. Archived from the original on 2022-04-01. Retrieved 2020-07-04.
  8. "After severe illness, NBC's Dr. Joseph Fair tests negative for COVID-19 antibodies". TODAY.com. Archived from the original on 2020-07-09. Retrieved 2020-07-11.
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