Adjunct Prof Dr David Swayne

Dr. David E. Swayne is a veterinarian with specialization as a Veterinary Pathologist and Poultry Veterinarian. For the past 38 years, his research focused on control of avian influenza. He has published over 369 peer-reviewed papers and 119 book/proceedings chapters and served as Editor or Associate Editor for 16 books, including Diseases of Poultry, Avian Influenza, and Fenner’s Veterinary Virology. He is on the editorial boards of Emerging Infectious Diseases and Avian Diseases. He has served in leadership roles at the World Organization for Animal Health (WOAH) in updating the Avian Influenza chapters in Terrestrial Animal Health Code and Manual and completed a 1.5-year sabbatical to study HPAI control. With WOAH and FAO, he served on the revision committee for the Global Strategy for Prevention and Control of HPAI. He currently serves as a member of the Steering Committee for OFFLU, the joint WOAH/FAO Animal Influenza Network. Previously, he was the Laboratory Director for the Southeast Poultry Research Laboratory (28.5 years), USDA, Athens, Georgia, USA and for 7 years as a tenured faculty member at The Ohio State University. He is currently a private veterinarian consulting on avian influenza control and an adjunct Professor at the University of Georgia.