Neil Vora

Neil Vora is a policy fellow at Conservation International, where he leads pandemic prevention efforts. Previously, he developed and led New York City’s COVID-19 contact tracing program. Vora served for nearly a decade with the CDC as an epidemic intelligence service officer and as a commander in the US Public Health Service. He deployed to Liberia and to the Democratic Republic of the Congo to assist in the responses to the two largest Ebola outbreaks ever. He also led the investigation of a newly discovered smallpox-like virus in the country of Georgia. He has published extensively in journals including The New England Journal of Medicine and The Lancet, is associate editor of Emerging Infectious Diseases, and is adjunct professor of internal medicine and infectious diseases at Columbia University.