Matthew Shearer
 Matthew Shearer  (officer, epidemiologist) | |
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| Nationality | US |
| Alma mater | University of Michigan, United States Naval Academy |
| Spouse | Jen Andonian |
Matthew Shearer is a Senior Analyst at the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security and a Senior Research Associate in the Department of Environmental Health and Engineering at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. He was an integral part of developing and implementing the Clade X and Event 201 pandemic exercises.[1]
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Career
Before transitioning his career to health security, he served as the Combat Information Center Officer and Anti-Terrorism/Force Protection Officer for the US Navy. He graduated in aerospace engineering from the United States Naval Academy in 2007, before getting a MPH in epidemiology from the University of Michigan in 2014. [1]
Prior to joining the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security, Shearer worked at local public health departments in Michigan and California, developing and implementing medical countermeasures distribution and dispensing exercises, updating communicable disease response protocols, including Ebola-related preparedness efforts. [1]
Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security
Shearer leads much of the Center’s work on the Biological and Toxin Weapons Convention (BWC) and often represents the Center at BWC meetings in Geneva, Switzerland.
He supported the BWC Implementation Support Unit in hosting a series of regional workshops with Association of Southeast Asian Nations States Parties, including the development of a tabletop exercise scenario. [1]
He is the Lead Analyst for the Center’s Southeast Asia Multilateral Biosecurity Dialogue, which convenes a diverse group of experts from Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, and the United States to discuss ongoing and emerging biosecurity priorities in the Southeast Asia region. He has participated in multiple collaborations with the Taiwan Centers for Disease Control (Taiwan CDC).[1]
He also developed and conducted biosecurity, outbreak response, and exercise development and implementation training for private sector clinicians and other health experts in Iraq. He is currently leading research to develop policy guidance for elected and appointed officials on the use of nonpharmaceutical interventions for emerging outbreaks and epidemics.[1]
Personal
He married Jen Andonian in June 2020. She works with the emergency preparedness team at Massachusetts General Hospital. Before coming to Mass General, Andonian was an infection control epidemiologist and program manager at Johns Hopkins Hospital supporting their biocontainment unit.[2]
Events Participated in
| Event | Start | End | Location(s) | Description |
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| Clade X | 15 May 2018 | 15 May 2018 | A pandemic/biowarfare preparation exercise by Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security. Held May 2018. | |
| Event 201 | 18 October 2019 | 18 October 2019 | New York US | A Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security/World Economic Forum/Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation sponsored large scale simulation of a global coronavirus pandemic predicting an apocalyptic outcome. Held October 2019. |
| SPARS Pandemic 2025-2028 | October 2017 | October 2017 | A tabletop pandemic planning exercise that gave advice how to handle "communication challenges" in a vaccination campaign after the public has become aware that it is more damaging than the disease. Held October 2017. |
