Dr. Francisco Zagmutt has conducted work that directly informed health policies in the United States and abroad. While Dr. Zagmutt’s experience in risk analysis spans many fields, his core expertise is in epidemiology and risk analysis of the intersection of human health, animal health, and food systems. This includes projects in food safety, nutritional epidemiology, infectious disease epidemiology, antimicrobial resistance, public health, animal health, One Health, outcomes research, and early drug development. Additionally, he has applied risk analysis to other areas of knowledge such as operations, natural resources, pharmaceutical strategy, finance, and invasive species modeling.

Francisco is a managing director at EpiX Analytics and affiliate faculty at Colorado State University, where he also lectures in Risk Management. Francisco is an appointed member of the US National Advisory Committee on Microbiological Criteria for Foods where he provides impartial scientific advice to multiple US federal agencies.