**Meet the editor**

David Claborn is an associate professor in the Master of Public Health Program at Missouri State University where he teaches graduate courses in international health and environmental health. He obtained his Doctor of Public Health (DrPH) from the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences in 2001, and his dissertation dealt with the reemergence of malaria in

South Korea. Prior to his academic career, he was a military officer, retiring from the US Navy in 2008. In 1991, he was a medical entomologist for the First Marine Expeditionary Force during Desert Shield and Desert Storm. He lives in Springfield, Missouri, with his wife and daughter.
