Guy H. Palmer
Guy H. Palmer, DVM, PhD
Diplomate, American College of Veterinary Pathologists
Regents Professor of Pathology and Infectious Diseases
The Creighton Chair and Director of the WSU
Paul G. Allen School for Global
Animal Health
Dr. Palmer's goal is to improve control of animal diseases with direct
impact on human health and well-being. Within this focus, he has led
collaborative infectious diseases research programs in southern and eastern
Africa, the Middle East, and Latin America, where he currently directs a
multi-institutional research effort studying genetic change in microbial
pathogens and the risk for shifts in disease pattern and emergence. In
addition, Dr. Palmer's research focuses on vaccine discovery and
development. For his research at the interface of animal disease and human
public health, Dr. Palmer was elected to membership in the National Academy
of Sciences and is a current member of the Global Health Group within the
Institute of Medicine. Additionally, Dr. Palmer is a member of and serves
on the Board of Directors of the Washington State Academy of Science (Washington
State Academy of Sciences), which provides expert scientific and
engineering analysis to inform public policy-making. Dr. Palmer has been
recognized with the Merck Award for Creativity, the Schalm Lectureship at
the University of California, the NIH Distinguished Scientist Lecture, the
Sahlin Award for Research, Scholarship, and the Arts, and is a Fellow of the
American Association for the Advancement of Science. Currently, Dr. Palmer
serves as an adviser to the U.S. National Institutes of Health, the Wellcome
Trust in the U.K., the International Science Foundation, and for the Bill
and Melinda Gates Foundation. Dr. Palmer received his BS and DVM from
Kansas State University and his PhD from Washington State University; he is
board-certified in anatomic pathology.
Useful Links
Dr. Palmer is the Creighton Chair and Director of the Paul G. Allen
School for Global Animal Health [http://globalhealth.wsu.edu]
and currently serves as Chair of the Graduate Studies Program in the
Department of Veterinary Microbiology and Pathology [http://www.vetmed.wsu.edu/graduate/VMP/],
which provides MS and PhD level training; and as Director of the NIH
Infectious Diseases and Microbial Immunology Training Program [http://www.vetmed.wsu.edu/research_vmp/itp/],
which recruits post-DVM and post-PhD fellows for mentored laboratory
training in the College of Veterinary Medicine and the School of Molecular
Biosciences. Additional training opportunities are available through the
NIH Biotechnology Training Program
http://sciences.wsu.edu/biotech/
