Dr. Borio is Senior Associate at the Center for Biosecurity of UPMC and Assistant Professor of Medicine at the University of Pittsburgh. She also serves part time at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) as an advisor on biodefense programs. She is an infectious disease physician and continues to practice medicine at Johns Hopkins Hospital. Dr. Borio’s work focuses on policies to improve the nation’s preparedness for bioterrorism, by supporting threat assessments, medical countermeasure development, and medical response plans. Dr. Borio is an associate editor of the peer-reviewed journal, Biosecurity and Bioterrorism: Biodefense Strategy, Practice, and Science, and she is Co-managing Editor of the Clinicians’ Biosecurity Network, a real-time, online communications network designed to facilitate communications among physicians during healthcare crises. She serves on the Global and Public Health Committee and the Bioemergencies Task Force of the Infectious Diseases Society of America, and has previously served on the National Research Council’s committee on Methodological Improvements to the Department of Homeland Security's Biological Agent Risk Analysis. She has lectured extensively and has published a series of manuscripts and book chapters on biodefense-related issues. Dr. Borio is a member of the Infectious Diseases Society of America, Phi Beta Kappa, and Alpha Omega Alpha. Prior to joining the Center for Biosecurity at its founding in 2003, Dr. Borio was a senior fellow at the Johns Hopkins University Center for Civilian Biodefense Strategies and Assistant Professor of Medicine in the Division of Infectious Diseases at Johns Hopkins University. In 2002, Dr. Borio left the Johns Hopkins Center to work full time as Senior Health Advisor at the Department of Health and Human Services. There, she implemented and managed mathematical modeling projects to assess the health effects of bioterrorism on civilians and to inform medical countermeasure procurement activities for the Office of Preparedness and Response. She rejoined the Center in 2003, and continues to serve part-time at HHS, where she advises on the requirements for and development of medical countermeasures. Dr. Borio is originally from Brazil and came to the United States in 1988. She received a BS in 1992 and an MD in 1996 from the George Washington University. She completed residency in 1999 in Internal Medicine at the New York Presbyterian Hospital - Cornell Medical Center, and subsequently completed a combined fellowship in Infectious Diseases (at Johns Hopkins University) and Critical Care Medicine (at the National Institutes of Health). | 
