Emily Douglass is the Associate Director of the Data and Operations Management Center (DOMC) in the Center for Emerging and Reemerging Pathogens in the Division of Infectious Diseases at Rutgers University, New Jersey Medical School. She is a public health specialist and researcher specializing in clinical epidemiology and the design, implementation and management of global health and translational research programs. She received her MPH from Boston University and has 15 years of implementation experience in Eastern and Southern Africa, South America and Asia. Ms. Douglass’ professional focus is on building collaborative research and sustainable training programs in low-resource areas to improve healthcare, testing, diagnostics and research capacity in areas burdened by particularly high TB and HIV prevalence. She has more than a decade of expertise in coordinating clinical research, training, and public health programs at the local, national and international level in Infectious Diseases, Population Medicine and Emergency Medicine. She has an acute interest in community based research programs and improving TB diagnostics especially in pediatric populations. In addition to working with the FEND Administrative and leadership teams, she directs the Pediatric projects in Uganda and Peru along with the Oxford Pediatric team. Ms. Douglass is also co-founder of a non-profit Community-based Health Research Advocacy organization as well as an Adaptive and Inclusive Climbing initiative, both based in Cape Town, South Africa.