Dr. Edward Zuroweste
Technical Consultant 
Pennsylvania, USA

Edward Zuroweste, MD, has over 30 years of experience as a Board-Certified Family Physician focused on the care of underserved populations in the US, namely migrant and seasonal farmworkers. For 20 years, Dr. Zuroweste maintained a full-time clinical practice in family practice and obstetrics in Chambersburg, Pennsylvania, first in private practice and later as the Medical Director of a Migrant/ Community Health Center.   Dr. Zuroweste was a founding member, and current Founding Medical Director of the Migrant Clinicians Network.  He is the Tuberculosis Medical Consultant for the Pennsylvania Department of Health and serves as the attending physician for 8 PA State Health Department TB Clinics.  He is an Adjunct Assistant Professor of Medicine at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine where he has directed an international health elective for medical students in Honduras in the past. In 2009- 2010, Dr. Zuroweste served as a “special medical consultant” for the Global Influenza Program, World Health Organization in Geneva, Switzerland where he worked with a team to develop educational material for limited resource hospitals and clinics related to the most common severe complications of the H1N1 pandemic. During the Ebola Epidemic (Oct/Nov 2014) he was hired as a medical consultant by the WHO in conjunction with the IMAI-IMCI Alliance and participated as part of the WHO Ebola Response Team in both Guinea and Sierra Leone where he trained over 200 Cuban physicians and nurses to prepare them to work in Ebola treatment centers in those countries. In March 2017 he was one of a large team of physicians and nurses who participated in a CDC/WHO project to screen all 6,000 adults on the small island of Ebeye in the Marshall Islands for TB, Leprosy, DM and HTN. He returned to the Marshall Islands in August 2018 for a similar larger project to screen over 24,000 individuals on the island of Majuro.