Joshua Glasser

Joshua Glasser is a Foreign Affairs Officer at the U.S. Department of State's Office of International Health and Biodefense, where he holds a portfolio focused on human health and the global environment. He has also served with the Department's Bureau of East Asian and Pacific Affairs and the Special Envoy for Climate Change. Josh has worked on a variety of human-animal-environmental health (“One Health”) issues, including in the Arctic region, Southeast Asia, and India, and in the context of the Global Health Security Agenda and the World Health Organization. He graduated from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill with a degree in political science and public policy analysis. He holds a Master of Science in Global Health and Population from the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, where his thesis focused on mapping human vulnerability to climate-related health risks. He has also studied as a Fulbright Scholar in Vietnam (2007-2008). Josh joined the State Department as a Presidential Management Fellow in 2013; his work has been recognized with a Superior Honor Award, four Meritorious Honor Awards, and a Director's Award from the National Institutes of Mental Health.