Gary Flory is a biologist and environmental scientist focused on preventing and responding to the threat of transboundary and zoonotic animal diseases including highly pathogenic avian influenza. He spent 30 years with the Virginia Department of Environmental Quality serving as the Agricultural Program Manager. In this role, Gary provided leadership on numerous issues surrounding the nexus of agriculture, the environment, and public health. He also founded the global consulting firm G.A. Flory Consulting to provide services including animal disease and natural disaster research and response, agricultural emergency planning, and agricultural emergency training. G.A. Flory Consulting LLC has been serving clients globally for more than 20 years.
Gary has conducted training courses, presented research findings, and been deployed to animal disease outbreaks in a number of countries, including Timor Leste, the Dominican Republic, Brazil, Vietnam, Tunisia, South Korea, Côte d’Ivoire, Brazil, Cambodia, Laos, Malaysia, and Azerbaijan. Gary provides support to the United States Department of Agriculture, the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO), the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), and the World Organisation for Animal Health (WOAH). Gary currently serves on FAO’s African Swine Fever Global Pool of Expertise and as a Senior Fellow in Animal Disease and Environmental Management for the Institute for Infectious Animal Diseases, Texas A&M University.