Sophal Ear, Ph.D.

Dr. Sophal Ear is an Assistant Frofessor in the Dept. of National Security Affairs at the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, California. Click here to read a recent paper by Dr. Ear on Emerging Disease Surveillance in Cambodia and Indonesia.

Dr. Ear has a decade’s experience in development consulting in post-conflict countries and specializes on Southeast Asia. His research has covered such varied topics as social protection, governance, and the livestock sector as it related to avian influenza. He is working on the institutional arrangements needed to improve effective surveillance of emerging infectious diseases before they jump from animals to humans.
More information about his work can be found by clicking here. Dr. Ear was recently selected as a Young Global Leader 2011 by the World Economic Forum. You may view an interview with him by clicking here.