Mary Elizabeth G. Miranda Chief Executive Officer Field Epidemiology Training Program Alumni Foundation Inc.
MARY ELIZABETH MIRANDA Chief Executive Officer Field Epidemiology Training Program Alumni Foundation Inc (FETPAFI) • field epidemiologist, public health veterinarian, One Health practitioner • 2002-2005, Regional Focal Point - rabies, SARS, avian influenza, emerging zoonoses, WHO Western Pacific Regional Office • 2005-2010, Regional Veterinary Epidemiologist and Infectious Diseases Specialist, FAO UN Regional Office Asia & the Pacific, Emergency Center for Transboundary Animal Diseases; contributed to regional capacity building for prevention and control of avian influenza and other zoonoses in Bangladesh, Cambodia, Indonesia, Lao PDR, Myanmar, Nepal, Philippines, Timor Leste, Vietnam • 2007-2014, Asian Coordinator, Global Alliance for Rabies Control, co-proponent/field implementation partner for Communities Against Rabies in the Philippines & Indonesia • 2008-2019, deployed by FAO/OIE/WHO Crisis Management Center rabies outbreak missions - Indonesia, Azerbaijan, Vietnam & Sarawak Malaysia • 22 years, Research Institute for Tropical Medicine Philippines; Veterinary Research Department Head; Institutional Biosafety Officer, Rabies and Filovirus Research Leader; Biodefense Working Group, Dengue Study Group; Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee Chair; Ethics Review Board Member & Infection Control Committee Member • FETPAFI support for the Department of Health Field Epidemiology Training Program, & technical lead of research grants &public health initiatives • Co-lead w/ Prof Katie Hampson, University of Glasgow - SPEEDIER (Surveillance integrating Phylogenetics and Epidemiology for Elimination of Disease: Evaluation of Rabies Control in the Philippines) since 2017, jointly funded by Philippine Government, UK Medical Research Council, University of Glasgow & Wellcome Trust • Other projects - neglected tropical diseases, emerging & re-emerging Infectious diseases, regional biobanking, TB, malaria, HIV, NCDs, FETP Intermediate Courses