Louise Gresham

Sr. Fellow, Global Health Security

Louise Gresham advises the organization on global health security and helps to develop strategic goals and project-specific grantmaking for achieving these goals. 

Louise is an epidemiologist and holds a Ph.D., MPH in Epidemiology from the University of California San Diego Family Medicine and SDSU School of Public Health.  Her early career with San Diego County’s Health and Human Services Agency focused on surveillance technologies and the control of infectious disease.

Louise transitioned to strengthening and supporting regional infectious disease surveillance for NTIs Senator Sam Nunn and Ted Turner in regions often in conflict including the Middle East, Africa, and the Mekong Basin. She is a member of the delegation that developed the first modern tuberculosis laboratory in North Korea with the humanitarian group CFK and Stanford University.

She advised the Bipartisan WMD Center chaired by Senators Graham and Talent, and held leadership roles with the philanthropic global health leaders Mérieux Foundation and Ending Pandemics. Louise is an adjunct associate research professor, San Diego State University, School of Public Health.