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CREATE-NEO: E. Megan Davidson Averill
UTMB Team

E. Megan Davidson Averill is Program Manager for CREATE-NEO based at the University of Texas Medical Branch. She has more than two decades of experience advising, managing, and leading infectious disease and global health programs. From 2020 to 2023 she served as Scientific Program Leader for emerging infectious disease (EID) research and vaccine development programs at the Duke Human Vaccine Institute. She provided technical assessments, capacity development and support for health and development programs across Africa and Asia (FHI 360, 2008-19), including as Senior Technical Advisor based in Vietnam (2015-19). Her passion for infectious disease work began while coordinating an NIH-funded consortium on policy, ethics and law for EID and biodefense research (2003-8).

Megan completed her Bachelor of Arts in Environmental Science at the University of Pennsylvania; and post-graduate coursework in epidemiology, health policy, and public health research at Duke University, the University of London SOAS, and Wake Forest University.

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Email: eldavids@utmb.edu


CREATE-NEO members

The Centers for Research in Emerging Infectious Disease (CREID) is a coordinated network with centers in regions around the globe where emerging and re-emerging infectious disease outbreaks are likely to occur. Multidisciplinary teams of investigators will conduct pathogen/host surveillance, study pathogen transmission, pathogenesis and immunologic responses in the host, and will develop reagents and diagnostic assays for improved detection for important emerging pathogens and their vectors.

NIAID launched the CREID Network in 2020.This website is run by CREATE-NEO, a member of the CREID Network independent of NIH/NIAID.