Professor Dr. Tony Stewart

Biography

Tony Stewart is a medical epidemiologist and public health physician graduated from Australia's Field Epidemiology Training Program. He has served as a Senior Epidemiologist at the World Health Organization’s Global Outbreak Alert Response Network from 2014 to 2019. He has worked closely with national health departments and regional training networks such as the African Field Epidemiology Network and the Eastern Mediterranean Public Health Network. In his career, he has delivered training in multiple continents including Africa, Europe, and Central America. Notably, he was an early responder to the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami and the 2009 tsunami in Samoa, as well as coordinating responses to the Ebola outbreak in West Africa. His contribution to the Zika response earned him the Director-General's Award. In 2018, he took on the role of senior technical lead for the response in the Rohingya refugee camp in Bangladesh, managing simultaneous outbreaks of diphtheria and cholera. Stewart has extensive experience coordinating with international agencies and NGOs for public health disasters and holds qualifications in medicine and applied epidemiology.

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