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Adejare (Jay) Atanda is a senior policy researcher at the Meselson Center within the Global and Emerging Risk division at RAND. His research examines development of new technological tools, the potential to misuse them and their convergence with traditional threats with a primary focus on AI security, biosecurity, and AIxBio policy. Atanda has written for scientific audiences and the public, publishing refereed work in the International Journal of Public Health, Health Security, Cancer Letters, BMJ Open, and BMC Oral Health. He has presented his work at both national and international meetings of experts such as the WHO Global Technical Meeting and is a frequent guest speaker at several universities. His prior research used real-world data, health econometrics, and big data methods to generate real world evidence that inform dental outcomes. Before coming to RAND, Atanda managed a policy and research portfolio at the U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s Countering Weapons of Mass Destruction Office. Atanda is co-chair of the Data and Information Technology workgroup of the Maryland Commission of Public Health, serves on the epidemiology section of the American Public Health Association, the scientific program committee of the Global Health Security Conference and the editorial board of several journals. He earned a DMD from University of Ibadan, an MPH from Johns Hopkins University, a DrPH from Morgan State University, and completed his residency training at the National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research at NIH.