{
  "id": 19523378,
  "title": "Epidemiologist Neil Vora joins Mongabay’s board as it expands global reach and planetary health coverage",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/11/11/epidemiologist-neil-vora-joins-mongabays-board-as-it-expands-global",
  "topic": "science",
  "section": "Science",
  "published": "2026-11-11T16:47:22.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Mongabay",
    "slug": "mongabay",
    "url": "https://news.mongabay.com/2026/11/epidemiologist-neil-vora-joins-mongabays-board-as-it-expands-global-reach-and-planetary-health-coverage/"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": "Dr. Neil Vora, a physician and epidemiologist with extensive experience in Ebola outbreaks, has joined Mongabay's board of directors. Previously, Vora led New York City's COVID-19 contact-tracing operation, which traced over 700,000 people. He also worked at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) for nearly a decade, where he focused on understanding the factors that enable diseases to jump from animals to humans. Vora's expertise lies in the ecological causes of emerging diseases, and he now leads the Preventing Pandemics at the Source Coalition. This coalition advocates for governments and funders to address the ecological factors that contribute to the spread of diseases. Mongabay founder and CEO, Rhett Butler, expressed gratitude for Vora's knowledge and experience in bridging public health and conservation. Butler also noted a personal connection between Vora and himself, as they both share an interest in reptile and amphibian conservation.",
  "summary": "Neil Vora has worked on Ebola outbreaks in Liberia and the Democratic Republic of the Congo and ran New York City’s COVID-19 contact-tracing operation that traced more than 700,000 people. Now the physician and epidemiologist is joining Mongabay’s board of directors. The Ebola deployments came during nearly a decade at the U.S. Centers for Disease […]",
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}