Jean-Paul Gonzalez

He has led field and laboratory teams of researchers in countries such as Brazil, Central African Republic, Gabon,[8] Laos, Senegal, Sierra-Leone, Thailand, Ukraine and more.

Gonzalez has been involved in high security laboratory practices and research and, early development of geographical information systems applied to infectious diseases.

This was followed by a residence in French Guiana at the Hôpital André-Bouron, located on the left bank of the Maroni River on the amazonian forest.

Gonzalez was in charge of the adult, pediatric, and geriatric wards, as well of the Acarouany leprosy hospital and, health control over the Maroni River border between French Guiana and Suriname.

Gonzalez did his 18 months national duty as a Volunteer at the National Active Service (VSNA) at the Pasteur Institute of Tunis (Tunisia) where he traveled extensively for the Pasteur Institute as a WHO (World Health Organization) expert collecting mosquitoes’ larvae and identifying imago for the surveillance of malaria in Tunisia.

[41] In 2017 he was appointed at Deputy Director of the Center of Excellence for Animal and Zoonotic Diseases (CEEZAD[42]), Kansas State University (KSU).

Jean Paul Gonzalez
Jean Paul Gonzalez conducting public health interview in Laos
Jean Paul Gonzalez and team training public health workers for viral hemorrhagic fever preparedness and response
Jean Paul Gonzalez presenting the Center of Excellence of Emerging Zoonotic and Animal Disease (Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS) at University of Kansas School of Medicine, Lawrence, KS.