Crisis Lab names infectious disease biosurveillance expert to advisory board

Crisis Lab has appointed Dr. James Wilson to its newly established Advisory Board to help guide intelligence products, program development and partnerships. The move adds a veteran health security and biosurveillance operator as the company expands its crisis management intelligence platform.

Why it matters: - Crisis Lab is adding a senior infectious disease warning expert to help sharpen its intelligence products and guide expansion. - The appointment connects Crisis Lab with decades of experience in biosurveillance, outbreak detection and health security networks. - The advisory role is meant to improve alignment between Crisis Lab’s offerings and practitioner needs.

What happened: - Crisis Lab appointed Dr. James Wilson to its newly established Advisory Board on July 21, 2026. - Wilson will serve as a strategic adviser. - His remit includes senior peer review of intelligence products, guidance on programs and products, and introductions across his health security and biosurveillance network.

The details: - Wilson is founder and CEO of Proseko Consulting, Inc., based in Reno, Nevada. - He is a board-certified practicing pediatrician and one of the founders of operational health security intelligence. - Wilson has spent three decades building systems for the anticipation, detection and warning of infectious disease crises. - He served as operations chief of the Department of Homeland Security’s National Biosurveillance Integration Center during its 2005 to 2006 standup. - Wilson led Project Argus at Georgetown University Medical Center, and the project’s federal sponsor recognized its methodology as a new analytic discipline. - His teams warned of the 2009 H1N1 pandemic. - His teams identified Nepalese peacekeepers as the source of the 2010 Haiti cholera outbreak six years before the United Nations acknowledged the role. - His teams detected the COVID-19 outbreak in Wuhan on December 30, 2019, and notified the World Health Organization on January 1, 2020, days before China disclosed its first fatal case. - His work appears in peer-reviewed publications including Intelligence and National Security and JAMIA. - Crisis Lab said Wilson will review pre-publication products from the Intelligence by Crisis Lab line. - Crisis Lab said Wilson will advise on program and product development within his domain expertise. - Crisis Lab said Wilson will also make introductions to institutional partners and qualified subject matter experts. - The Advisory Board provides independent guidance on program and product development, institutional partnerships and the alignment of Crisis Lab’s offerings with practitioner needs. - Crisis Lab is an IACET-accredited crisis management intelligence and professional development platform. - Crisis Lab says it reaches more than 20,000 professionals globally through its intelligence publications, practitioner-taught courses, podcast and newsletter. - Crisis Lab directs readers to more information.

Between the lines: - The appointment suggests Crisis Lab wants to deepen its credibility in health security and biosurveillance by adding an expert with both operational and academic credentials. - Wilson’s background points to a focus on early-warning intelligence, which could shape how Crisis Lab develops products for crisis professionals.

What's next: - Wilson will begin reviewing products and advising on future program and product development. - Crisis Lab is likely to use the advisory board to broaden partnerships and expand its practitioner network. - The company’s intelligence line may become more closely shaped by field-tested biosurveillance expertise.