Dr. Laura H. Kahn is a physician, author, educator, and consultant. She has a medical degree from the Mount 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. For almost 20 years, she was a research scholar with the Program on Science and Global Security at the Princeton University School of Public and International Affairs. In 2006, she published Confronting Zoonoses, Linking Human and Veterinary Medicine in the CDC journal Emerging Infectious Diseases that helped launch the One Health Initiative (http://www.onehealthinitiative.com) which is a global effort to promote the One Health concept that human, animal, plant, environmental, and ecosystem health are linked. She is the author of two books: Who’s in Charge? Leadership During Epidemics, Bioterror Attacks, and Other Public Health Crises (2nd edition published in 2020 by Praeger Security International) and One Health and the Politics of Antimicrobial Resistance published in 2016 by Johns Hopkins University Press. In June 2020, she launched her Coursera course: Bats, Ducks, and Pandemics: An Introduction to One Health Policy, which has thousands of students enrolled from around the world. In 2014, she received a Presidential Award for Meritorious Service from the American Association of Public Health Physicians, 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. She is currently working on her third book, One Health and coronaviruses.
Confronting zoonoses, linking human and veterinary medicine (2006)
Going viral (2012)
The next epidemic, brought to you by the US government (2015)
Creating dangerous viruses in the lab is a bad way to guard against future pandemics (2021)