Dr Omar A. Khan, MD is president and CEO of
Delaware Health Sciences Alliance, an organization that includes
the major health systems and research universities in the Delaware
Valley. He also holds a master’s degree from the Johns Hopkins
University’s Bloomberg School of Public Health, and has co-authored
several books on global health and infectious disease, including
The End of Polio with Tim Brookes, a Vermont resident and frequent
contributor to VPR and other national publications.
Dr David L. Heymann, MD is the Assistant
Director-General for Health Security and Environment and
Representative of the Director-General for Polio Eradication. Prior
to this, from July 1998 until July 2003, Dr Heymann was Executive
Director of the WHO Communicable Diseases Cluster. From October
1995 to July 1998, Dr Heymann was Director of the WHO Programme on
Emerging and other Communicable Diseases, and prior to that he was
the chief of research activities in the WHO Global Programme on
AIDS. Before joining WHO, Dr Heymann worked for 13 years as a
medical epidemiologist in sub-Saharan Africa on assignment from the
US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Dr Heymann
also worked for two years in India as a medical epidemiologist in
the WHO Smallpox Eradication Programme.
Dr Heymann holds a B.A. from the Pennsylvania State University, an
M.D. from Wake Forest University, a Diploma in Tropical Medicine
and Hygiene from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical
Medicine, and has completed practical epidemiology training in the
two-year Epidemic Intelligence Service of CDC. In 2004 he received
the American Public Health Association Award for Excellence and was
named to the United States Institute of Medicine. In 2005 he was
awarded a Welling Professorship at the George Washington University
School of Public Health and the 2005 Donald Mackay medal by the
American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene. In 2007 he
received the Heinz Award in the Human Condition category.
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