Faculty
Allen School Faculty Profiles
The Allen School is home to dedicated faculty who often work in multiple departments. Since much of our work requires interdisciplinary resources, our faculty is committed to excellent communications and collaboration between departments. Our facilities also allows us to host visiting faculty from around the world.
Timothy Baszler
baszlert@wsu.eduExecutive Director (WADDL)
Associate Director and Professor (Allen School)
Douglas Call
drcall@wsu.eduProfessor of Molecular Epidemiology.
Associate Director for Research and Graduate Education, Allen School.
Director, Immunology and Infectious Disease Graduate Program
FSI Molecular epidemiology, ecological and physiological basis for genetic structuring of microbial populations
Lauren Charles
lauren.charles@wsu.eduSenior Data Scientist, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Research Professor, Paul Allen School for Global Animal Health
Samuel Thumbi Mwangi
thumbi.mwangi@wsu.eduClinical Assistant Professor & Director of Rabies Free Kenya
M. Kariuki Njenga
mkariuki.njenga@wsu.eduProfessor of Epidemiology and Virology
Country Director of WSU-Global Health - Kenya
Eric Osoro
eric.osoro@wsu.eduAdjunct Faculty
Deputy Country Director WSU - Global Health Program in Kenya
Guy Palmer
gpalmer@wsu.eduRegents Professor of Pathology and Infectious Diseases
The Jan and Jack Creighton Endowed Chair & Senior Director of Global Health
Affiliated & Adjunct Faculty
Troy Bankhead
tbankhead@wsu.eduAssociate Professor
Mechanisms of persistence and virulence associated with the Lyme disease spirochete, Borrelia burgdorferi
Thomas E. Besser
tbesser@wsu.eduProfessor and Rocky Crate-Wild Sheep Foundation Chair in Wild Sheep Disease Research
Epidemiology of zoonotic bacterial agents in domestic animal reservoirs
Shira Broschat
shira@eecs.wsu.eduProfessor and Diversity Coordinator, School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Sarah Cleaveland
Adjunct Faculty
Appolinaire Djikeng
Adjunct Faculty
Gaetano Donofrio
Adjunct Faculty
Emmanuel Mpolya
Adjunct Faculty
Anthony V. Nicola
anthony.nicola@wsu.eduAssociate Professor
Virus entry, herpes simplex virus, viral glycoproteins, membrane fusion, virus-cell interactions
Susan M Noh
smnoh@wsu.eduAffiliate Faculty
Tick borne diseases: vector - pathogen interface and the interface between the pathogen and the mammalian host
Devendra H. Shah
dshah@wsu.eduAssociate Professor
Food and water-borne bacterial diseases; avian infectious diseases
Gabriel M. Shirima
Adjunct Faculty
Bill Sischo
wmsischo@wsu.eduProfessor
DVM, MPVM, PhD, Food Safety Initiative Microbiologist, Field Disease Investigation Unit
