# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/michael-j-ryan
# Generated: 2026-08-13T04:07:34.322Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/michael-j-ryan"
name: "Michael J. Ryan"
slug: "michael-j-ryan"
description: "Michael Joseph Ryan is an Irish epidemiologist and former trauma surgeon, specialising in infectious disease and public health. He is executive director of the World Health Organization's Health Emergencies Programme, leading the team responsible for the international containment and treatment of COVID-19. Ryan has held leadership positions and has worked on various outbreak response teams in the field to eradicate the spread of diseases including bacillary dysentery, cholera, Crimean–Congo hemorrhagic fever, Ebola, Marburg virus disease, measles, meningitis, relapsing fever, Rift Valley fever, SARS, and Shigellosis."
tagline: "Irish epidemiologist and trauma surgeon"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Michael_Ryan_ESCAIDE_2019_(49198471961)_(cropped).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
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  slug: "doctors"
profileType:
  name: "Doctor"
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  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1965"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
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  momentum:             0
  historical:           11.697812
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     70
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: 241
platforms:
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    handle:    "drmikeryan"
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    title: "Mike Ryan (arts)"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump