PROFILE
 

Professor Daniel Bausch, MD, MPH&TM, FASTMH, is an American/Swiss physician-scientist trained in internal medicine, infectious diseases, tropical medicine, and public health. He specializes in the control of emerging tropical diseases, with over 25 years’ experience in sub-Saharan Africa, Latin America, and Asia combating viruses such as Ebola, Marburg, Lassa, hantavirus, and SARS coronaviruses. In addition to his contributions as a researcher and public health responder, Professor Bausch has a particular interest in the economic, sociopolitical and governance underpinnings that make people vulnerable to these dangerous diseases. He places a strong emphasis on capacity development in all his projects and has a keen interest in the role of the scientist in promoting health and human rights, striving to ensure that biomedical advances translate to better health for those most in need.

In addition to the Geneva Graduate Institute, Professor Bausch holds appointments at the National University of Singapore and London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. Previously he held leadership positions as the Senior Advisor for Global Health Security at FIND (Geneva, Switzerland), Director of the United Kingdom Public Health Rapid Support Team (London, UK), Technical Lead of the Epidemic Clinical Management Team at the World Health Organisation (Geneva, Switzerland), Chief of the Virology and Emerging Infections Department at U.S. Naval Medical Research Unit No. 6 (Lima, Peru), Professor at Tulane School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine (New Orleans, USA), and Medical Officer at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (Atlanta, USA). He is a past President and Scientific Program Chair of the American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene and serves on various Advisory Boards and Committees for the World Health Organisation, academic institutions, the private biotech sector, and non-governmental humanitarian organisations, including the WHO Strategic and Technical Advisory Group on Infectious Hazards with Pandemic and Epidemic Potential and the Scientific Advisory Board for the Global One Health Community.

Professor Bausch was recently honoured by Tulane University with their 2025 International Alumni Award for Exceptional Achievement.

THEMATIC EXPERTISE
 

• Outbreak-prone pathogens
• Pandemic preparedness, prevention and response
• Global health governance
• One Health
• Infectious diseases and climate change
• Health and human rights

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
 

• Bausch DG, H Kavunga-Membo, RF Grais et al (2024). Building Partnerships and Confronting Challenges: Implementation of an Ebola Virus Vaccine Clinical Study During an Outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. In LaBeaud D and A Stewart (Eds), Infectious Disease Work in a Changing World: People, Pathogens and Partnerships. Nature Springer, London, UK
• Bausch DG (2022). ASTMH – A means to what end? The nexus of Tropical Medicine and Human Rights. Amer J Trop Med Hyg 108(2):241-244
• Riley-Powell AR, Lee GO, Naik NS, Jensen KE, O'Neal C, Salmón-Mulanovich G, Hartinger SM, Bausch DG and VA Paz-Soldán (2018). The impact of road construction on subjective well-being in communities in Madre de Dios, Peru. Int J Environ Res Public Health 15(6). pii: E1271
• Jain V, Duse A, and DG Bausch (2018). Planning for Large Epidemics and Pandemics: Challenges from a Policy Perspective. Curr Opin Infect Dis 31(4): 316-24
• Bausch DG, Kouri V, Resik S et al (2017). The Cuba-United States Thaw: Building Bridges Through Science and Global Health Am J Trop Med 96(6):1267-1269
• Bausch DG and MM Clougherty (2015). Ebola Virus—Sensationalism, Science, and Human Rights. J Infect Dis 212 Suppl 2:S79-83
• Bausch DG and L Schwarz (2014). Outbreak of Ebola Virus Disease in Guinea: Where Ecology meets Economy. PLoS Negl Trop Dis 8(7):e3056
• Kelly JD, Barrie MB, Ross RA, Temple BA, Moses LM, and DG Bausch (2013). Housing equity for health equity—A rights-based approach to the control of Lassa fever in post-war Sierra Leone. BMC Int Health Hum Rights 13(1):2
• Bausch DG, Sprecher AG, Jeffs B, and P Boumandouki (2008). Treatment of Marburg and Ebola hemorrhagic fevers: a strategy for testing new drugs and vaccines under outbreak conditions. Antiviral Res 78 (1):150-61
• Bausch DG, Nichol ST, Muyembe-Tamfum JJ et al (2006). Marburg hemorrhagic fever associated with multiple genetic lineages of virus. N Engl J Med. 355(9):909-919