Emerging Infectious Diseases from the Global to the Local Perspective A Summary of a Workshop of the Forum on Emerging Infections (2001) / Chapter Skim
Currently Skimming:
Appendix D: Forum Member and Staff Biographies
Appendix D: Forum Member and Staff Biographies
Pages 107-118
The Chapter Skim interface presents what we've algorithmically identified as the most significant single chunk of text within every page in the chapter.
Select key terms on the right to highlight them within pages of the chapter.
From page 107... ...
Subsequently, he moved to the Robert Wood Johnson Pharmaceutical Research Institute, where he served first as Head of Infectious Diseases and later as Executive Director, Dermatology and Wound Healing.
|
From page 108... ...
Previously, as Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Health Affairs, he managed policy, the Defense Health Program budget, and performance for the Military Health System, including the $16 billion TRICARE health care system and force health
|
From page 109... ...
He is a member of the Global Advisory Group on Health Systems Research of the World Health Organization in Geneva, Switzerland, past president of the Association for Health Services Research and the Foundation for Health Services Research, and a fellow of the New York Academy of Medicine. He is founder of the Partnership for Prevention, a coalition of private-sector business and industry organizations, voluntary health organizations, and state and federal public health agencies based in Washington, D.C., that have joined together to work toward the elevation of disease prevention among the nation's health policy priorities.
|
From page 110... ...
Gupta is active in a number of professional societies, including the Infectious Diseases Society of America and the American Society for Microbiology, where she is a member of the committee on education. She is a frequent presenter at the Interscience Conference on Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy and other major infectious disease congresses, and has been published in leading infectious disease periodicals such as the Journal of Virology, the Journal of Infectious Diseases, and Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy.
|
From page 111... ...
In 1986, she came to NIAID as the Influenza and Viral Respiratory Diseases Program Officer in DMID, and in 1988 she was appointed Chief of the Respiratory Diseases branch, where she coordinated the development of acellular pertussis vaccines. She joined the Division of AIDS as Deputy Director in 1997 and was responsible for developing the Innovation Grant Program for Approaches in human immunodeficiency virus vaccine research.
|
From page 112... ...
Davison Professor and chairman emeritus of pediatrics at Duke University Medical Center, and is the immediate past Chairman of the Board of the Burroughs Wellcome Fund. He has concentrated his research on infectious diseases, focusing primarily on vaccine research and development.
|
From page 113... ...
Layton spent 2 years with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention as a fellow in the Epidemic Intelligence Service, where she was assigned to the New York City Department of Health. In the past, she has volunteered or worked with the Indian Health Service, the Alaskan Native Health Service, and clinics in northwestern Thailand and central Nepal.
|
From page 114... ...
He has served as a grant reviewer for the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs Infectious Diseases Merit Review Board and the National Institutes of Health Special Study Section on the Biology of Mycobacteria.
|
From page 115... ...
He began his career with the U.S. Public Health Service as a medical officer on the Rosebud and the Redlake Indian Reservations and completed his active pediatric practice as Chief of Pediatrics and Chief of the Medical Staff at the Al Hada Hospital and Rehabilitation Center in Taif, Saudi Arabia.
|
From page 116... ...
Dr. Webb is Senior Medical Director in Infectious Diseases Global Marketing at Bristol-Myers Squibb, working on the strategy and development for the anti-infective portfolio including human immunodeficiency virus products.
|
From page 117... ...
Her graduate work has included research and policy analysis on issues including environmental, biodiversity conservation, sustainable development, human health, and emerging and reemerging infectious diseases. In August 1998, she participated in an educational program in Kenya that studied the relationship between ecological degradation and emerging infectious diseases.
|
From page 118... ...
118 EMERGING INFECTIOUS DISEASES policy in 1994 from the George Washington University, and in 1987 she simultaneously earned two bachelor's degrees in international studies and Latin American studies.
|
Key Terms
This material may be derived from roughly machine-read images, and so is provided only to facilitate research.
More
information on Chapter Skim is available.