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Dr. James C. Shepherd is an infectious disease specialist based in New Haven, Connecticut. His work takes him around the globe, including working with the World Health Organization in New Delhi advising the Government of India on Tuberculosis control, directing a research program in TB and HIV for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Botswana, and assisting the University of Maryland to start a large AIDS treatment program in Nigeria. As of 2020, he is currently involved in managing the COVID-19 pandemic.

He still finds time to run Smokedown Farm, a hops farm in northwestern Connecticut. Smokedown Farm supplies hops to many local breweries in the region.