**Meet the editor**

David Claborn is the Interim Director of the Master of Public Health Program at Missouri State University, where he teaches courses in international health, environmental health and the public health of disaster. He obtained his Doctor of Public Health (DrPH) from the Uniformed Services University of Health Sciences in Bethesda, Maryland, where his dissertation dealt with

the re-emergence of malaria on the Korean peninsula. He also has degrees in Zoology and Entomology from Texas Tech University. Prior to his academic career, he was a medical entomologist with the U.S. Navy from which he retired at the rank of Commander.
