Focus
Upcoming
Thursday, January 18
Infectious Diseases Seminar Series
Arresting Epidemics: Global Efforts to Fight Diseases of the Poor—The Evolution of Public Policy from Polio Immunization to Global Eradication
Presenter:
Walter Dowdle, Task Force for Child Survival and Development
12:00-2:00 p.m.
Benjamin Waterhouse Faculty Room
Gordon Hall
Harvard Medical School
25 Shattuck Street
Boston
An expert on infectious diseases, Walter Dowdle is a member of the Task Force for Child Survival and Development and a senior adviser to the U.S. Surgeon General on polio eradication and containment. He is also a consultant to the World Health Organization's Global Poliomyelitis Eradication Initiative.
For seven years he was the deputy director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and prior to that was director of its Center for Infectious Diseases. Dowdle has also held the positions of director of the Malarone Donation Program for control of malaria in East Africa; deputy administrator of the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry; and director of both the WHO's Collaborating Center for Influenza and its Collaborating Center for Virus Reference and Research.