Dr. Janies serves as the Vice President of Global Health Technology at OHGA. He os the Carol Grotnes Belk Distinguished Professor of Bioinformatics and Genomics; and Co-director for Computational Intelligence to Predict Health and Environmental Risks (CIPHER) at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. He worked as a postdoctoral fellow (1996-99) and as a principal investigator (2000-02) at the American Museum of Natural History where he led a team that, using off-the-shelf components, built one of the world’s largest computing clusters in 2001. Dr. Janies originated the field of mapping pathogen genetic data in concert with geography and host animals. Dr. Janies was a tenured faculty member in the College of Medicine at the Ohio State University where he served as a national principal investigator in the Tree of Life program of the NSF. He has advised the White House under President Obama, the Pentagon, and testified to both Houses of Congress.
