College Panel

Siam Rezwan

BSc Student (Public Health)

Johns Hopkins University

Siam Rezwan is a 3rd-year student at Johns Hopkins University majoring in Public Health. He is the Chair of The Global Health Leaders Conference at JHU, Editor-In-Chief of The Pre-Collegiate Global Health Review, and a Clinical Research Assistant at The Johns Hopkins School of Medicine

Max van Wijk

MSc Student (Infectious Diseases and One Health)

University of Edinburgh

Max van Wijk is a second-year graduate student pursuing a Master degree in Infectious Diseases and One Health, and a recipient of an Erasmus Mundus scholarship funded by the European Union. He is currently based at the University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom. His international Master’s degree has allowed him to study at the Université de Tours, France and the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain. Born and raised in the Netherlands, he holds a BSc in Molecular Life Sciences degrees from Utrecht University.

Van Wijk is a co-founder of Infectious Disease Daily that was launched in July 2020 and a graduate research fellow at the Barcelona Institute for Global Health (ISGlobal). His current research focuses primarily on the effect of climate change on infectious diseases. He will join the Oxford University Clinical Research Unit (OUCRU) in Hanoi, Vietnam in spring 2021, where he will conduct his master thesis on interventions to reduce the unnecessary use of antibiotics in low and middle income countries.  

Andreas Pappas

Veterinary Medicine Student, President of the International One Health Student Alliance (ISOHA)

University of Thessaly

Andreas Pappas is a final year veterinary student at the University of Thessaly, Greece. He is the current president of the International Student One Health Alliance (ISOHA) and the former ISOHA Vice president of Education (2019-20). He has also served as Chair of the Standing Committee on One Health of the International Veterinary Students’ Association (IVSA SCOH 2019-20), IVSA SCOH YouTude Creator (2018-19), IVSA Thessaly One Health Manager (2018-19) and IVSA Thessaly Event Manager (2018-20). Andreas believes that the man is a multidimensional being so he is also trying to develop a multifaceted character and that is why he has graduated from the “ Marketing of Pharmacies and Clinics” Program , is a professional Sailing trainer, is the holder of the Piano Degree, has been volunteering in many local projects and authorities and is currently attending the “Intercultural care” program.

Jamie Goltz

MSc Student (Epidemiology), Collaborative Specialization in One Health

University of Guelph

I obtained my Honours Bachelor of Science (majoring in Biochemistry and minoring in Microbiology) at the University of Guelph. After my undergraduate degree, I performed research in the department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology at Mount Sinai Hospital on a genetics project for patients with undiagnosed diseases. I also worked in the School of Environmental Science at the University of Guelph to perform water testing for enteric viruses from surface and groundwater samples in the Grand River.

A year after my undergraduate degree, I enrolled in my MSc in Epidemiology, with a collaborative specialization in One Health at the University of Guelph. My project is a collaboration with a team at the Public Health Agency of Canada, focusing on antimicrobial resistance. It aims to examine extended-spectrum beta-lactamase-producing Enterobacteriaceae specifically, and to evaluate how Canadians can be exposed to these resistant bacteria and which exposures are higher risk than others. I am using a One Health approach in this research to help understand the interconnection of resistant bacteria transmission between humans, animals, and the environment, especially in the agri-food system, to provide a more holistic understanding of the human exposures.

Soe Yu Naing

MSc Student (Infectious Diseases and One Health)

University of Edinburgh

Soe Yu Naing is an aspiring public health scientist from Myanmar (Burma). Naing holds a bachelor's degree in Neuroscience from Earlham College in the United States. Later, he joined the AIDS clinical trial unit at the University of Pennsylvania to work on HIV "cure", and therapeutics projects using gene therapy approaches in human clinical trials.

Currently, Naing is an Erasmus Mundus scholar pursuing a master's degree in Infectious Diseases and One Health in Europe.  He is a visiting graduate research fellow at Barcelona Institute for Global Health (ISGlobal). He is also a co-founder of Infectious Disease Daily, a digital platform that was launched in July. Naing received training in Infectious Diseases from molecular biology and immunology perspectives in France. He studied zoonotic diseases, food safety, and emerging infectious diseases from an epidemiological point of view in Spain. Currently, he is studying Animal Science at the University of Edinburgh Roslin Institute, and he will be conducting his master thesis on antimicrobial resistance at the Utrecht University in the Netherlands.   

Along with his interdisciplinary research experience in North America and Europe, he aims to combat zoonotic diseases and antimicrobial resistance utilizing a One Health approach in low and middle-income countries. 

Iyiola Oladunjoye

Microbiologist, Medical Student, Resources and Event Tracker, ISOHA Educational Committee.

University of Ilorin

Iyiola Oladunjoye is an ardent advocate of One Health from Nigeria with about 2 years of work experience in environmental and public health microbiology, and STEM advocacy.

In 2018, he graduated with a First Class Honors in Microbiology from the University of Ilorin, Nigeria and proceeded with his national service at the Department of Microbiology, Rivers State University, Nigeria as a Graduate Teaching Assistant. Subsequently, he gained an executive position in Rouleaux Foundation, a nonprofit organization aimed at promoting science for sustainable development in Africa as a Group Executive in the capacity of Health, Agriculture and Life Sciences. Shortly before the conclusion of his national service, he was offered a position as a Microbiologist at EnvironQuest Limited, a leading environmental consulting firm in Nigeria.

Iyiola has a long-term professional goal of becoming an infectious disease physician and an epidemiologist. This influenced his decision to enroll in the Medicine and Surgery program at the University of Ilorin, Nigeria. He hopes to contribute his quota in the implementation of the One Health approach in tackling global health issues such as Infectious Disease Outbreaks, Antimicrobial Resistance, Zoonoses in Nigeria and Africa at large.