Dorothy Preslar

Executive Director
International Lookout for Infectious Animal and
Anthropo-Zoonotic Diseases (ILIAAD)

ILIAAD conducts research in Tanzania testing the use of compact and portable technologies to detect, identify and report disease outbreaks in wild and farmed animals.

Formerly with the Federation of American Scientists, Ms. Preslar was a founding principal of ProMED-mail, director of the Animal Health/Emerging Animal Disease program and worked with the FAS biological weapons project. She has written several papers on the economic and security impacts of infectious disease, including The Importance of Disease Monitoring and Surveillance in the Watch for Agro-terrorism or Economic Sabotage.

Ms. Preslar is a graduate of Wake Forest University and did graduate study in law and business at Georgetown, George Washington, and American universities.