Paul G. Allen School for Global Health Animal & Public Health Research

Gifts to this fund are used to support research initiatives within the Paul G. Allen School for Global Health. This includes projects that validate innovative research ideas to existing projects that incorporate undergraduate and graduate students. 

Our faculty specialize in epidemiology, immunology, infectious diseases, socio-economics, vector-borne disease, vaccine development and zoonotic disease. The team works on projects around the world with research hubs in Kenya, Tanzania and Guatemala. 

Diseases that pass between animals and humans are called zoonotic diseases. Recent studies show that up to 75 percent of recently emerging infectious diseases in humans originally came from animals. These include diseases that have made recent news like Ebola, Zika, Middle East respiratory syndrome and avian influenza. Your gift in support of research will help us learn how to detect diseases faster, develop vaccines to prevent the spread of disease, and help save lives.