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Dr. Tolbert Geewleh Nyenswah, BSc., LLB, MPH, DrPH is a Faculty at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Department of International health,USA. Researcher and interagency personnel at the United States National Institute of Health (NIH). An internationally recognized legal scholar and a global public health expert. Specializes in health policies, strategies and plans, disease control and prevention, public health emergencies preparedness and response, advising on incident management system functionalities. He was appointed 3 times and Senate confirmed by President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf in various cabinet positions…advises President Sirleaf during the 2014-2016 Ebola crisis in West Africa; and still is on President Sirleaf Advisory team on global pandemic response initiatives. He was awarded one of Liberia's highest honor, Order of the African Redemption with the rank of Grand Commander by President Ellen JohnsonSirleaf, for leading Liberia’s successful response to the Ebola Epidemic. Tolbert is the Author of the Book titled, "Collapse and Resiliency, The Inside Story of Liberia's Unprecedented Ebola Response." He author/co-author 107 peer reviewed scientific papers in high quality journals, such as the Lancet Global Health, BMC Public Health, New England Journal of Medicines, MMWR etc.

He recently participated in Catastrophic Contagion! tabletop exercise presented to the Gates Foundation and WHO as part of the Foundation's Grand Challenges Annual Meeting in Brussels and was a key factor in its success. Tolbert has been engaged with fighting some of worst dangerous pathogens, several public health emergencies, including, Ebola, Lassa fever, Zika, Meningitis and currently the COVID-19 response. Nine (9) years fighting endemic malaria. Since COVID-19, some of the major contributions, to the COVID-19 response includes the development of a opened source contact tracing course ) developed by Johns Hopkins and the Bloomberg Philanthropies that has over 1.3 million people enrollment and certificated, and over 15 million viewers. The course is used in all US 50 States, Departments of Health, and translated in Subtitles: Chinese (Traditional), Arabic, French, Portuguese (European), Italian, Portuguese (Brazilian), Vietnamese, Korean, German, Russian, Indonesian, English, Spanish, Nepal.

Tolbert helped Harvard University on developing a Crowdsourcing surveillance course on high pathogen diseases including COVID-19 and Ebola for capacity building in diseases surveillance. Tolbert appears on several webinars advising high level political and technical global leaders: Center for Global Development, Carey Business School, Cornell University, JHU Faculty Real time COVID-19 response. Tolbert has been interviewed by: African, North American, Asian, European, and South American media.

Tolbert has been recognized as public health leader both at home and internationally as a leader in Liberia's successful response to the 2014-2016 Ebola crisis, as Incident Manager, for the multinational and multidisciplinary response. Prior to joining Johns Hopkins University, Tolbert was Assistant Minister for disease prevention and Deputy Minister of Health for Disease Surveillance and Epidemic Control, Ministry of Health, Liberia. His leadership has saved millions of lives in Liberia preventing the Global spread of Ebola and now globally with COVID-19. He led the establishment of Liberia's First National Public Health Institute after the Ebola crisis and became its First Director General and Chief Executive Officer (CEO). He has and continue to serve on many international boards and committees, including as member of the panel of experts on the Global Health Security Index; Member of the Committee on Public Health Interventions and Countermeasures for Advancing Pandemic and Seasonal Influenza Preparedness and Responses, the National Academy of Sciences and Engineering, USA. Member of the UHC2030 technical working group that drafted the new UHC2030 policy brief on COVID-19 and fragile setting led by WHO and other international partners.

Tolbert holds a Doctor of Public Health (DrPH) and Master of Public Health (MPH) degrees (Dean's Scholarship Award, Student Recognition Award, Outstanding Alumina Award, Bloomberg Outstanding Emerging Leader Award, and Delta-Omega Award and many more) from Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. Tolbert also holds a Bachelor of Science (BSc) and Law (LLB) degrees from the University of Liberia.