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Dr. Thomas Unnasch (GHIDR) is a Professor in the Department of Global Health. His research has focused upon vector-borne diseases (see "Florida Trend" article). He recently joined USF after spending 18 years on the faculty at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. He has extensive collaborations with investigators in the developing world, including individuals in Ecuador, Ghana, Guatemala, Mexico and Burkina Faso. While at UAB, Dr. Unnasch served as both a mentor and a member of the scientific advisory board of UAB’s Minority International Health Research and Training program. In the 10 years that he was involved in this program, he sponsored roughly 12 trainees for short term laboratory programs in the laboratories of his collaborators in Ghana, Ivory Coast, Burkina Faso and Guatemala. Dr. Unnasch also served as the principal investigator of an NIAID training grant for Bioterrorism Related and Emerging Infectious Diseases at UAB. This program has supported the training of a total of six Ph.D level graduate students and postdoctoral fellows per year for the past four years. While at UAB, Dr. Unnasch served as the coursemaster for courses in the Biology of Parasitism, and as a lecturer for emerging viral infections and helminthic infections in the School of Medicine and as a lecturer on arboviral infections and onchocerciasis in courses offered in the School of Public Health.
Dr. Unnasch is the author or co-author of roughly 120 peer reviewed articles, book chapters and reviews. Most of these have concentrated on the molecular epidemiology, ecology and biochemistry of filarial infections and arthropod borne viruses. He has had a record of uninterrupted funding from the US government and various international agencies (e.g. the World Health Organization) since 1986. He is currently the principal investigator on two R01 research awards (NIAID), as well a research contract from the Carter Center’s Global 2000 program and the CDC. As alluded to above, he was also the PI on a T32 training grant concentrating on emerging infectious diseases while at UAB. He has served on multiple grant review panels for NIH, WHO, NSF and the Gates Foundation, as well as a manuscript reviewer for numerous journals. He is currently on the editorial board of Molecular and Biochemical Parasitology and a member of the Editorial Advisory Board of Public Library of Science (PLoS) Neglected Diseases.
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