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Gray MD, MPH, FIDSA is an infectious disease epidemiologist and a Professor at Duke Kunshan University, Duke University, and Duke-NUS Medical School (Singapore). He manages research teams with infectious disease laboratories in each of these facilities.

He leads the Duke One Health Network which involves more than 30 professionals studying more than 30 pathogens under 30 research and training projects running in 11 countries: China, Iraq, Malaysia, Mongolia, Pakistan, South Africa, the Philippines, the United States, and Vietnam (see the Duke One Health web site at: http://sites.globalhealth.duke.edu/dukeonehealth/).

Dr. Gray has conducted diverse epidemiological studies of infectious diseases for 25 years in 5 continents. He has authored more than 300 peer-reviewed manuscripts and book chapters.  Much of his work has involved identifying risk factors for occupational diseases, particularly for respiratory virus infections. He has studied numerous occupational groups including farmers, animal breeders, veterinarians, military personnel, turkey workers, poultry workers, horse workers, hunters, and pig workers. A strong supporter for the One Health approach, he has won multiple One Health research and training grants, helped to established centers of One Health (USA, Romania, China) and developed 4 graduate programs in One Health (PhD, MHS, and certificate).

He has won numerous professional awards including a US Navy Commendation Medal, the US Secretary of Defense Medal for Outstanding Public Service, and a US Department of Defense Legion of Merit medal for epidemiological research; College of Public Health Faculty Teaching Award, Global Health Studies Program Faculty Member of the Year, College of Public Health Faculty Research Award, International Studies Faculty Mentor of the Year, and College of Public Health Distinguished Faculty Lecturer all at the University of Iowa; the Medal of Honor from Mongolia’s Minister of Health for health sector development (MoH’s highest award), and the Peace Medal awarded by the President of Mongolia for research and prevention of communicable diseases (The Mongolian government’s highest honor for a foreigner); and Duke University’s Global Health Graduate Professor of the Year. 

His work in China has resulted in more than 30 research publications, designation as a high-end expert, and a visiting professorship. In 2014, he helped to organize the first One Health International Symposium in China (Guangzhou). His One Health Laboratory was the first laboratory on the DKU campus.  He currently serves as principal investigator for a five-year U.S NIH/NIAID R01 grant studying swine influenza virus transmission in China.

” (Health Affairs, March/April 2006) which led to the Sec. 524 amendment in the Food and Drug Administration Amendments Act of 2007.  The article recommended, and the legislation made into law, a new incentive for neglected tropical disease medicines: the priority review voucher (PRV).  A PRV is awarded for US registration of a new medicine (new chemical, biological) for a voucher-eligible disease (19 high burden and emergent diseases including TB, malaria and Ebola).  An awarded voucher is exercised on a second drug that receives priority review as a reward for registration of the disease-eligible drug.  FDA awarded the first voucher to Coartem® in 2009 and 13 vouchers have been awarded as of February 2017.  The PRV program was amended in 2012 and again in 2016 to make pediatric cancer medicines and rare pediatric diseases voucher eligible.  4 vouchers have been awarded for neglected tropical diseases and 9 for other pediatric voucher-eligible diseases.  In August 2017, Moe co-authored an article advocating for the creation of a new incentive for vector control agents (“A Voucher System To Speed Review Could Promote A New Generation Of Insecticides To Fight Vector-Borne Diseases” (Ridley, Moe & Hamon, Health Affairs, August 7, 2017)

In response to requests by the Development Research Center of the Chinese State Council, Moe has led international country comparator studies regarding drug procurement and the use of specialists in health care.  Those research papers have been translated into Chinese and published by the China Development Press.  His research interests include incentives to stimulate research and development of new medicines for global diseases; identification and replication of health care delivery innovation, global health ethics and “reverse innovation” where new products and services introduced in Southern low resource settings have application in the higher income West.

Moe received his Ph.D. in Organization Development and Behavior from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 1981.  He graduated from the Kellogg School, Northwestern University, Executive Development Program in 1997.  Moe has previously been a lecturer at the University of Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, South Africa.

He is also Associate Director of DGHI for China Initiatives, and Executive Director of Global Health Program at Duke Kunshan University in China, as well as Director of Research Hub for Asia-Pacific Observatory on Health Systems and Policies/WHO, which has research projects in Cambodia, Nepal, Vietnam and other Asian countries. In his capacity at Duke Kunshan University, he was elected as President of Chinese Consortium of Universities for Global Health (CCUGH) in November 2015. Tang has more than 30 years of experience undertaking research on health systems reform, disease control and maternal and child health in China and other countries, and has provided consultancy services on health systems strengthening to many international organizations and governments of developing countries. In 2012, Tang came to Duke from the UNICEF/UNDP/World Bank/WHO Special Program for Research and Training in Tropical Diseases (TDR), based in Geneva, where he was Unit Leader for TB/HIV and Health Systems. Before his assignment at WHO, Tang was a faculty member at Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine in UK, and School of Public Health of Fudan University (former Shanghai Medical University).

unicable Chronic Diseases (NCDs) Research at the Global Health Research Center of Duke Kunshan University in China since July 2014. Previously, she was the Deputy Director of the George Institute for Global Health at Peking University Health Science Center and Director of the China International Center for Chronic Disease Prevention, a large network of 5 international academic institutions and 7 Chinese institutions dedicated to combat NCDs in China. She has a bachelor’s degree in Sociology from Peking University, a Master of Public Health degree and a doctoral degree in Demography from the University of California, Berkeley. Her main areas of research are chronic disease prevention and control (hypertension, heart disease, and stroke in particular), healthy aging, and innovation in translational health systems and services research and implementation science. She is the Principal Investigator or Co-Investigator on a number of NHLBI-funded and China-funded research grants. She has published dozens of peer-reviewed scientific papers some of which in leading medical journals such as JAMA, Lancet, Circulation, and BMJ. She also provides advices and consultancy to national and international organizations.