Kevin Olival
Associate Dean And Associate Director For Research
Honolulu, Hawaii, United States
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Top SchoolKevin Olival is a conservation biologist and global health research leader with 20+ years’ experience directing One Health, emerging infectious disease, and conservation programs across 30+ countries. As Associate Dean and Associate Director for Research at the University of Hawaiʻi and former VP for Research at EcoHealth Alliance, he has raised $10M as PI and co-led efforts that secured over $350M in research and global health funding while managing multidisciplinary teams and complex international partnerships. He blends fieldwork expertise—from Hawaiian tree snail conservation to Nipah virus ecology—with strategic program building, biosurveillance, and pandemic intelligence advising for WHO and NIH initiatives. A prolific researcher with 90+ peer-reviewed articles, he is known for translating ecological and evolutionary insights into practical surveillance protocols and capacity-strengthening in lower-middle-income settings. Based in Honolulu, he pairs academic mentorship and grantmaking acumen with hands-on lab and field experience, often bridging local cultural contexts and global policy arenas.
9 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS), Biology/Biological Sciences, General, Bachelor of Science (BS), Biology/Biological Sciences, General at Colorado State UniversityMaster of Arts (M.A.), Conservation Biology, Master of Arts (M.A.), Conservation Biology at Columbia University in the City of New YorkDoctor of Philosophy - PhD, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at Columbia UniversityEnvironmental Policy Certificate, Environmental Policy, Environmental Policy Certificate, Environmental Policy at Columbia | SIPA
English, bahasa indonesian/malaysian
Github Skills (5)
phylogeny9
doi8
pathogen8
modeling3
analytics2
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (3)
kevinolival/eha-ma-handbook
Mar 2021 - Mar 2021
EcoHealth Alliance Modeling & Analytics Handbook
Contributions:1 push in 1 day
alliancemodelinganalyticshandbook
ecohealthalliance/HP3
Jun 2016 - Jul 2016
Repository for Host-Pathogen Phylogeny Project. Paper DOI: 10.1038/nature22975
Contributions:44 commits in 22 days
doipathogenphylogenyhosthost-pathogen
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