Dr. Jon Kim Andrus, MD is Professor at George Washington University. Over his 35-year global health career, Dr. Andrus has served as Deputy Director of the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO); Lead Senior Technical Advisor and chief of PAHO’s immunization program; and Regional Advisor for Polio Eradication and chief of the immunization program in WHO’s Southeast Asia Region. He began his global health career as a Peace Corps volunteer, serving as the District Medical Officer in Malawi. He graduated from Stanford University and UC Davis School of Medicine and undertook a family medicine residency at UC San Francisco. He completed Epidemic Intelligence Service and Preventive Medicine Residency training programs at the USA CDC. Currently, Dr. Andrus serves as chair of PAHO’s Regional Monitoring and Re-verification Commission on Measles and Rubella Elimination and as a member of PAHO’s Technical Advisory Group for Vaccine Preventable Diseases and of WHO’s South East Asia’s Regional Verification Commission for MRE. He has published >130 scientific peer-reviewed papers and received numerous awards. In 2000, he received the Distinguished Service Medal, the US Public Health Service’s highest award, for his polio eradication work in Southeast Asia, and in 2013, he received UC Davis School of Medicine’s Transformational Leadership Award for his work in measles elimination. In 2019, he was inducted as an Honorary Member of Mexico’s National Academy of Medicine.