Jacqueline Cattani, Ph.D.

Professor of Global Health and Director, USF Center for Biological Defense Came to USF: 1998
Contact Information: Office: 3602 Spectrum Blvd., DOH N08 E-Mail: jcattani@health.usf.edu or jcattani@hsc.usf.edu Phone: (813) 974-7789 FAX: (813) 974-1479	Discipline: Epidemiology Economics
	Specialization: Biodefense Global Health Disease Surveillance Intervention Research Epidemiology of malaria and other parasitic infections
Degrees: M.A., Economics, University of California, Santa Barbara, 1976 M.P.H., Epidemiology, University of California, Berkeley, 1980 Ph.D., Epidemiology, University of California, Berkeley, 1984	Other Information: Cattani publications Research and Support Cattani CV Course Syllabi

Dr. Cattani is Professor of Global Health and Director of the Center for Biological Defense in the College of Public Health. She received her Master's Degree in Economics from the University of California, Santa Barbara, and her MPH and Ph.D. in epidemiology from the University of California, Berkeley. Prior to coming to USF, she served as epidemiologist/scientist for the UNDP/World Bank/WHO Special Programme on Research and Training in Tropical Diseases (TDR) at the World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland, as a faculty member in the Department of Tropical Public Health at the Harvard School of Public Health, and as malaria epidemiologist at the Papua New Guinea (PNG) Institute of Medical Research in Madang, PNG.

She has Chaired and served as member of numerous NIAID/NIH review panels and is a member of the NIAID Microbiology and Infectious Diseases Research Committee Study Section. She was a member of the American Association of Medical Schools Expert Panel on Bioterrorism Education for Medical Students in 2001-2002 and has served on the Fogarty/NIH International Brain Disorders Review Group in 2006 and 2007. She also served as member of the Infectious Disease Control Subcommittee of the Defense Health Board from 2002 through 2007 and was awarded the Secretary of Defense Medal for Outstanding Public Service in 2003. Dr. Cattani was a member of the National Academy of Sciences Committee on decontamination of public facilities following a bioterrorist attack, and has served on various task forces and advisory groups on bioterrorism response at national, state and local levels.

Her current research focuses on dual-use disease surveillance for bioterrorism and other public health emergencies, and evaluation of new technologies for medical event, laboratory, and clinical diagnosis. She manages research on a broad spectrum of technologies with applications to rapid recognition and response to potential bioterrorist events and emerging infectious diseases of public health importance.