Guy Palmer

Background

About Guy Palmer

Guy Palmer holds the Jan & 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 Health, he currently is the Senior Director of Global Health at WSU and serves as Chair, WSU Global Health-Kenya in Nairobi and as President, Global Health-Tanzania in Arusha. 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 is a member of Council for the National Institutes of Allergy and Infectious Diseases at NIH and serves as a member of the Board on Animal Health Sciences, Conservation and Research at the National Academies of Science, Engineering and Medicine. He currently chairs the National Academies’ Committee on Committee on Community Wastewater-based Infectious Disease Surveillance Following his clinical training in veterinary medicine and residency in pathology, Dr. Palmer earned a PhD in Infectious Diseases from WSU and completed a NIH fellowship in vaccine immunology. He holds honorary doctorates from the University of Bern (Switzerland) where he completed his fellowship in the Institute of Pathology, and from Kansas State University, where he chaired the Advisory Board for the Biosecurity Institute. He has been recognized with the Poppensiek Professorship at Cornell, the IBM Professorship at Colby College, the Schalm Lecturership at the University of California, the Distinguished Scientist Lectureship at NIH, the Science in Medicine Lectureship at the University of Washington, and the Merck Award for Creativity. Dr. Palmer also holds appointments the University of Nairobi, the Nelson Mandela African Institute of Science and Technology, the Universidad del Valle de Guatemala, Kansas State University and the University of Washington.