Audrey Thevenon
Senior Program Officer, National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine
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Bio
Audrey D. Thévenon, Ph.D., is a Senior Program Officer for the Board on Life Sciences at the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, where she leads and supports activities that address complex environmental health challenges, explore the benefits and risks of publishing computational models of biological agents, and inform ways of countering zoonotic spillover of high consequence pathogens. Since joining the National Academies, Audrey has supported collaborative regional and international activities at the intersection of infectious disease research and policy decisions that explicitly promote transdisciplinary research in global health. Audrey led and co-led activities aimed at sustaining biological collections for research and education, increasing biosafety and biosecurity capacity and training opportunities, informing about the potential risks and benefits of infectious disease and genome editing research, and promoting an integrated approach to solving issues at the intersection of animal, environmental, and human health. Audrey holds a Ph.D. and M.S. in biology from Georgetown University, specializing in tropical medicine and immunology, and an M.S. in cell biology and physiology from the University of Rennes, France. Her postdoctoral research focused on placental pharmacology and HIV-malaria studies.