David Paterson is a health and environmental scientist by training from Montreal, Canada, but works primarily in public policy development and implementation. At I.S.S., he serves as a consultant researcher for the Ebola case-line series. In the past, he worked for the Government of Canada’s public health agency on policy development though the analysis of the political economy and epidemiology of health inequalities; supported environmental protection through legal and policy reform initiatives with several NGOs; assisted with a tuberculosis transmission dynamics research project with Partners in Health in Lima, Peru; and collaborated on health and conservation programs in rural Uganda. David holds a baccalaureate degree from McGill University, and studied public policy and environmental sciences in graduate school at the University of Toronto. He speaks Spanish and French, and is learning Latin and Estonian. [email protected]