Steven Ault

Steven K. Ault is recently retired as the Senior Advisor for Neglected Infectious Diseases at the Pan American Health Organization, Regional Office of WHO, in Washington DC. His portfolio of work included the coordination of the program of neglected tropical diseases control and elimination focusing on parasitic diseases such as lymphatic filariasis, onchocerciasis, schistosomiasis and soil-transmitted helminthiasis, Chagas disease, leishmaniasis, leprosy, blinding trachoma, Buruli ulcer, fascioliasis, fungal infections, ectoparasites, myiasis and integrated vector control. He served as Regional Ecologist for PAHO/WHO based in Brasilia, Brazil from 1999-2005, where he worked in the control of neglected parasitic and vector-borne diseases, toxicology, risk assessment and environmental and occupational health. His basic academic degree (B.S.) was in entomology and his post-graduate training (M.Sc., Ph.D. programs) in entomology, ecology and parasitology was undertaken at the University of California (Davis) and the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine in England, with additional training in International Agricultural Development (M.S. Cand.) and environmental and occupational health at the School of Public Health of George Washington University in Washington, D.C.
Steven was the PAHO/WHO Environmental Health Advisor in Guatemala (1997-99). He served as Technical Director for Public Health in the U.S. Agency for International Development´s Environmental Health Project (1994–97), where he worked on environmental and occupational health projects in Central Europe, Nicaragua, and Egypt. Earlier he served as the Deputy Director of the California EPA Comparative Risk Project (1991-1993) and Chief of Research Services at the California Integrated Waste Management Board in the early 1990s. In the late 1980s and early 1990s he also worked as a senior lecturer in environmental studies at the California State University, Sacramento. He was a member of the WHO/FAO/UNEP Panel of Experts on Environmental Management for Vector Control, temporary advisor to USAID, WHO and PAHO on vector-borne diseases and rapid assessment procedures, and a short-term consultant to the World Bank.