Josh, who has been with Tunnell since 2013, is a Principal and Senior Scientific Advisor. He provides direct technical support to federal and academic clientele as a program manager and as a source of subject matter expertise in topics ranging from public health, infectious disease, veterinary medical countermeasure development and biosafety. He has been instrumental in supporting Tunnell’s initiatives at the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and with programs at the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). While participating in the Laboratory Testing and Diagnostics Working Group, Office of the Assistant Secretary for Health (OASH), Josh supported the HHS-Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) interagency response under the direction of the White House Coronavirus Task Force and OASH. He also co-authored the first HHS COVID-19 Strategic Testing Plan, a report to Congress submitted in May 2020, prepared in response to the Paycheck Protection Program and Health Care Enhancement Act, P.L. 116-139.

In his limited spare time Josh dotes on Miller, his Great Pyrenees/Chow mix, and travels the world catching exotic fish with his self-designed flies. In fact, one of them, the Montauk Monster, is even sold by Orvis.