{"id":1022,"date":"2025-03-28T13:47:55","date_gmt":"2025-03-28T12:47:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/prep.prezode-initiative.org\/en\/?post_type=member&#038;p=1022"},"modified":"2025-04-14T16:03:08","modified_gmt":"2025-04-14T14:03:08","slug":"neil-vora","status":"publish","type":"member","link":"https:\/\/prep.prezode-initiative.org\/en\/member\/neil-vora\/","title":{"rendered":"Neil Vora"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Neil Vora, MD, is a policy fellow at <a href=\"about:blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Conservation International<\/a> where he leads its efforts on pandemic prevention.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He served for nearly a decade with the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), including as an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/eis\/downloads\/you-can-be-a-public-health-hero.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Epidemic Intelligence Service officer<\/a> and a Commander in the US Public Health Service. Neil deployed for CDC to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/mmwr\/preview\/mmwrhtml\/mm63e1104a1.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Liberia in 2014<\/a> and to the Democratic Republic of the Congo in 2019 to assist in the responses to the two largest Ebola outbreaks ever.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Dr. Neil Vora also led the investigation of a newly discovered <a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/sections\/health-shots\/2014\/05\/01\/308357520\/new-virus-related-to-smallpox-is-found-in-republic-of-georgia\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">smallpox-like virus<\/a> in the country of Georgia in 2013. From 2020-2021, Neil developed and led <a href=\"https:\/\/www1.nyc.gov\/office-of-the-mayor\/news\/341-20\/test-trace-mayor-de-blasio-builds-out-tracing-isolation-operation\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">New York City\u2019s COVID-19 contact tracing program<\/a>, overseeing a team of <a href=\"https:\/\/jamanetwork.com\/journals\/jamanetworkopen\/fullarticle\/2798102\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">over 3,000 people<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He has published more than <a href=\"https:\/\/pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/?term=neil+vora\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">60 articles<\/a> in leading outlets such as the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2023\/04\/02\/opinion\/the-last-of-us-fungus-climate-change.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">New York Times<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/d41586-022-01312-y\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Nature<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nejm.org\/doi\/full\/10.1056\/NEJMoa1407647\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">New England Journal of Medicine<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thelancet.com\/journals\/lancet\/article\/PIIS0140-6736(15)60118-0\/fulltext\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">The Lancet<\/a>. He is an <a href=\"https:\/\/wwwnc.cdc.gov\/eid\/about\/editors\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Associate Editor<\/a> at CDC\u2019s Emerging Infectious Diseases journal, an Adjunct Professor of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.genmed.columbia.edu\/profile\/neil-m-vora\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Internal Medicine<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.infectiousdiseases.cuimc.columbia.edu\/profile\/neil-m-vora\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Infectious Diseases<\/a> at Columbia University, and a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.presidentialleadershipscholars.org\/classof2023\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Presidential Leadership Scholar<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Neil Vora still sees patients in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.treatmentactiongroup.org\/statement\/u-s-government-funded-research-brings-shorter-tuberculosis-treatment-regimens-to-new-york-city\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">a public tuberculosis clinic in New York City<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":true},"member-group":[],"member-type":[25],"class_list":["post-1022","member","type-member","status-publish","hentry","member-type-sc"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - 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