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Thomas Abraham
Thomas Abraham is an Adjunct Associate Professor at the Journalism and Media Studies Centre at The University of Hong Kong. His research work focuses on risk communication during infectious disease epidemics, the role of the media in communicating risk and infectious diseases, and global health security. He has been a consultant for the World Health Organization and other international organisations on risk communication, and worked at WHO headquarters in Geneva during the influenza pandemic. He is the author of Twenty-first Century Plague: The Story of SARS and most recently, Polio: The Odyssey of Eradication. He has a blog on polio at http://poliohunt.wordpress.com/.Abraham serves on JCIH editorial board since May 2015.