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Enjoy a
roundtable discussion with the editorial team behind the Control of
Communicable Diseases Manuals. Featuring David L. Heymann, MD; Omar A. Khan,
MD; Burton W. Wilcke, Jr., PhD this round table will talk how public health has
conquered communicable diseases and what we can expect in the future. With
experience ranging from Polio to Covid it will be hard to find a more
experienced group to have this discussion. With the 21st edition of
the Control of Communicable Diseases Manual set for release, we will also
discuss how this seminal publication has helped control infectious diseases
around the world. A transcript of this event can be found in the resources tab.
Contributors
Dan Doody
MODERATOR Dan Doody is the President and Chief Executive Officer of Doody Enterprises,
Inc. Since 1993, Doody Enterprises has been the most trusted source of
comprehensive, timely, and expert information about newly published books in
the health sciences. More than 5,700 librarians worldwide rely on Doody’s
Review Service® or Doody’s Core Titles® to
help guide their collection development decisions. The Doody’s database
features comprehensive bibliographic and evaluative information on more than
203,000 titles in the health sciences and 42,600 expert reviews. To provide its
unique services, Doody Enterprises has forged successful relationships with
more than 250 health sciences book publishers and established a network of more
than 9,400 academic health sciences professionals as expert reviewers. Prior to
starting Doody Enterprises, Dan worked for 15 years in various general
management, editorial development and sales and marketing capacities for
medical publishing companies, including 13 years at Mosby-Year Book (now wholly
owned by Elsevier.)
David Hartogs
MODERATOR David Hartogs is the
Marketing Manager of APHA Press. He has been with the American Public
Health Association since 2009 and has been marketing scholarly publications for
18 years. David has experience in marketing scientific publications
to the global market, including some of the most important works in public
health: Racism: Science and Tools for the Public Health
Professional and the all-important Control of Communicable
Diseases Manual .He also markets new technology
platforms in the publishing world and is a close follower of international
publishing trends. Prior to joining APHA, David was the marketing
coordinator for the American Geophysical Union. He is a graduate of The
Ohio University and lives in Arlington, Virginia with his wife, two daughters,
and stubborn dog.
Omar Khan, MD, MHS
Dr. Khan is President & CEO of the Delaware Health Sciences Alliance, comprising the major health sciences institutions in the Delaware valley. He is board-certified in Family Medicine, with a particular interest in global health, primary care, and health systems improvement. He serves on the medical faculty of the University of Pennsylvania, Jefferson Medical College, and the University of Vermont, and previously served on the faculty of the Johns Hopkins School of Public Health. He is President of the Delaware Academy of Medicine/Delaware Public Health Association, and Editor-in-Chief of the Delaware Journal of Public Health. He has served as Chair of the International Health Section of APHA; as Chair of Science Board. Chair of Publications Board; co-Chair of JPC; and on the Executive Board of APHA. He is Editor-in-Chief of APHA’s Clinical Control of Communicable Diseases Manual.
David L. Heymann, MD
David Heymann is a medical epidemiologist
and Professor of Infectious Disease Epidemiology at LSHTM. From 1989 to 2009 he
held various leadership positions in infectious diseases at WHO, and in 2003
headed the WHO global response to SARS in his role as executive director of
communicable diseases. In 1976, after spending two years working in India on
smallpox eradication, Heymann was a member of the CDC (Atlanta) team to
investigate the first Ebola outbreak in DRC and stayed on in sub-Saharan Africa
for 13 years in various field research positions on Ebola, monkeypox, Lassa
Fever, malaria and other tropical diseases. Heymann has published over 250 peer
reviewed articles and book chapters, is editor of the Control of Communicable
Diseases Manual, and is an elected member of the UK Academy of Medical Sciences
and the US National Academy of Medicine. In 2009 he was named an Honorary Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the
British Empire for services to global health.
Burton W. Wilcke, Jr. PhD
Burton
Wilcke, PhD is an Emeritus Associate Professor in the Department of Biomedical
and Health Sciences in the College of Nursing and Health Sciences at the
University of Vermont. Currently he is engaged in Global Health consulting work
focusing on leadership training for laboratory directors in developing
countries. He has over twenty-five years of public health practice experience
at the state and local level in California, Michigan and Vermont. In 2002 he became the Chair of the Department
of Medical Laboratory and Radiation Sciences (now Biomedical and Health
Sciences) at the University of Vermont (UVM). Prior to joining the faculty at
UVM he was the Director of Health Surveillance for the Vermont Department of
Health. His experience covers a range of
areas spanning infectious diseases, microbiology, public health practice, the
health workforce and global health. He has previously served on committees and
boards of national health and public health organizations such as the American
Public Health Association, the American Society for Microbiology, the
Association of Public Health Laboratories (APHL) serving as its President, and
the Institute of Medicine. He has also
served on the Editorial Board of the Emerging
Infectious Diseases and Public Health Reports.