David J Wolking

Experience

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  City Year

  Jul 2001 - Aug 2002

  Corps Member, City Year Detroit
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  Heartland Alliance

  Aug 2002 - Apr 2004

  Case Manager
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  AEI Consultants, Inc

  Jul 2005 - Aug 2006

  Environmental Scientist
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  University of California, Davis

  Nov 2006 - Feb 2010

  Program Manager (Global Livestock CRSP)
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  One Health Institute at UC Davis

  Feb 2010 - now

  My role at the One Health Institute (OHI) is to help develop teams, build foundations, and create systems necessary for leading the successful implementation of premier global health, research, and development programs. These programs are funded by multiple US Government Agencies including USAID, NIH, DTRA, DARPA, USFWS and by the Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations (CEPI). As senior manager, a day in the life involves integrating technical and operational teams, communicating across cultures and disciplines with partners in over 20 countries, responding to challenges and identifying ethical and cost effective solutions. Based at the University of California, my work also involves grant writing and capture management, teaching and mentoring students, leading and conducting independent research, and publishing and presenting findings to the global community we serve. Show less

  • Senior Manager, Global Programs

    Oct 2009 - now

  • Senior Project Manager (DARPA PREEMPT Project)

    Oct 2018 - Jan 2022

  • Global Operations Manager (USAID PREDICT Project)

    Oct 2014 - Sept 2020

  • Assistant Director (HALI)

    Jan 2010 - Sept 2020

  • Project Manager (DTRA-funded One Health Approach to Rift Valley Fever and Brucellosis Surveillance)

    Jul 2015 - Oct 2018

  • Project Manager (DTRA-funded Viral Sharing Among Bats, Primates, and People in Tanzania Project)

    Jul 2015 - Sept 2018

  • Global Operations Officer (USAID PREDICT)

    Feb 2010 - Sept 2015
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  University of California

  Jan 2016 - Dec 2016

  Co-founder and working group member (University of California, Global Operations)
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  University of California, Davis

  Jan 2017 - Apr 2017

  Instructor (International Agricultural Development)
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  USAID One Health Workforce - Next Generation

  Feb 2022 - now

  Technical Director/Deputy Chief of Party

  As technical director for the world's largest global network of universities in the US, Africa, and Southeast Asia, I have the privilege to collaborate and innovate with brilliant scientists leveraging the strengths of universities to develop the workforce needed for national and global health security.For over 5 years, we developed the networks capacities for growth and sustainability, diversifying funding portfolios and generating revenue, leading to over 200 new partnerships across 20 countries. Our education and workforce training programs (including over 2,000 project-derived materials and products) have reached over 60,000 individuals from 90+ countries. We designed and launched the world's first One Health Workforce Academy (now with sister academies in Africa and Southeast Asia), which offers 16 online courses to 5,000+ enrolled learners supporting competency-based training and education in health challenges and pandemic prevention. Show less

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  University of California, Davis

  Aug 2022 - now

  Lead project manager for a unique Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations (CEPI)-funded initiative (under their Disease X programme) that aims to expand the UC Davis "SpillOver" database to identify virus families most likely to emerge as the next Disease X with pandemic potential. In this role I lead communications, implementation, change management, and performance monitoring in collaboration with the infectious disease and data science teams. SpillOvers is applying artificial intelligence to integrate risk factors and data to help scientists identify viral families most likely to jump from animals to people and single out those most likely to cause human disease. Together with CEPI, we aim to use these data to inform and prioritize investments in vaccine library and Disease X R&D programmes, helping to further compress vaccine development timelines. Show less

  • Senior Project Manager (CEPI SpillOvers Project)

    Nov 2022 - now

  • Deputy Director (Institute for Pandemic Intelligence)

    Aug 2022 - Jul 2024