Neil Vora

Dr. Neil Vora is a physician with Conservation International, an American nonprofit environmental organization focusing on science, policy, and partnership with businesses, governments, and communities. In this role, he leads the organization's efforts on pandemic prevention. Previously, he served with the United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), leading an investigation in the country of Georgia concerning a newly discovered poxvirus. He was deployed to Liberia in 2014 and to the Democratic Republic of the Congo in 2019 to assist in the responses to the two largest Ebola outbreaks in history. From 2020-2021, Vora developed and led New York City’s COVID-19 contact tracing program. He still sees patients in a public tuberculosis clinic in New York City.