Global Health Security and Disease Prevention

Andrea (Drea) Finnegan is a Foreign Service Officer who currently works in the State Department Office of International Health and Biodiversity.  She has been posted to Bangkok, Thailand; Chengdu, China; Muscat, Oman; Ljubljana, Slovenia; and Djibouti, Djibouti.  Prior to joining the State Department, she had several careers as diverse as working as strategy consultant at IBM; maintaining websites about concrete; and working on a factory production line.  She earned a BA from Haverford and an MBA from Cornell.  But before all that, she started her adult life of international living as Rotary high school exchange student in Herning, Denmark - for which she is eternally grateful to Rotary.

Andrea Finnegan will represent the U. S. Secretary of State to discuss global health security and disease prevention.  Andrea is with the Office of International Health and Bio Defense who is responsible for policy addresssing both communicable and non-communicable diseases (including polio).  She will address U.S. foreign policy efforts to strengthen global health security and disease prevention.  There are wonderful links in this topic with polio, COVID-19 and perhaps efforts of our own Humanitarian Committee.