Eric K. Noji MD, MPH
Chairman and CEO of Noji Global Health & Security
Dr. Eric K. Noji is a physician with over 25 years of experience working in the fields of global health, disaster relief, humanitarian assistance, reconstruction, emergency preparedness and crisis monitoring. He has served as Senior Technical Advisor, Team Leader, Program/ Project Manager, and consultant on numerous occasions to solve a wide variety of public health problems for government agencies, NGOs, and international organizations such as USAID, WHO, UNICEF, and the World Bank. He currently lives in Washington D.C. where he manages a consulting firm he established that specializes in global health security and continues to regularly advise senior government officials, international organizations, universities, foundations, NGO’s and the corporate community on pandemic flu planning, continuity of operations, health diplomacy policy and medical applications of information and communications technology. A native of Hawaii, Eric Noji is a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Stanford, and completed his medical studies, graduate work and residency training at the University of Rochester, the University of Chicago and the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. Dr. Noji was a member of the full-time faculty at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and an Attending Emergency Physician at the Johns Hopkins Hospital prior to joining the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) in 1988. At Johns Hopkins and CDC he acquired extensive domestic and international experience in responding to natural, technological and industrial disasters, bioterrorism, violent civil conflict, epidemics, wars and other humanitarian crises affecting millions of people. From 1996-2001 CDC assigned Noji to the World Health Organization's Department of Emergency and Humanitarian Action in Geneva, Switzerland where he served as Director of Global Health Intelligence for Emergencies responsible for monitoring the health of refugees and other forcibly displaced populations around the world (including early warning of pandemic avian and swine flu and other causes of catastrophic life-threatening potential).

Eric Noji is the author or co-author of over 250 scientific articles and publications on disaster medicine, field applications of epidemiology in mass emergencies, clinical toxicology and the public health response to natural disasters, terrorism, weapons of mass destruction, refugee crises, famine and complex humanitarian emergencies. His ground-breaking papers on logistic regression, survival analysis, and survey sampling methodologies have become classics for applied researchers. Two of his books, The Public Health Consequences of Disasters (Oxford University Press, 2003) and Disaster Medicine (Elsevier, 2007) are still the most widely used educational textbooks on these topics. In 2005, he was elected to the prestigious Institute of Medicine of the National Academies of Science for pioneering work in mobile health, particularly the use of telemedicine, the internet, social media and global communications networks for emergencies, disaster relief, humanitarian aid and other public health crises. Eric Noji is an adviser or board member of several major corporations, nonprofit organizations, and government advisory councils and commissions. In 2006-2007, he was Visiting Professor at the University of Geneva in Switzerland and the Free University of Brussels in Belgium, and from 1999 to 2008 served as President of the Society of Alumni of the Johns Hopkins School of Hygiene & Public Health