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David Heymann, MD, serves as assistant director-general of the World Health Organization’s Health Security and Environment Cluster and as representative of the director-general for polio eradication. In his many years on the global health front, Heymann has also served as executive director of WHO’s Communicable Disease Cluster and led research activities for WHO’s Global Program on AIDS. Prior to his work with WHO, Heymann worked as a medical epidemiologist in sub-Saharan Africa for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
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To read more from Heymann’s Q&A, including his thoughts on polio and other infectious diseases, visit www.thenationshealth.org.
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- In your role at WHO and as an expert in infectious disease, what are the top two issues you believe most threaten health security and what must be done to counter those threats?
- How do you think global efforts against infectious disease will fare in the new economic climate? And how can public health workers best make the case that health security is inextricably linked to economic security — if you think that is, indeed, the case?
- “CCDM” is now in its 19th edition as the leading sourcebook on infectious disease. As editor of this new edition, what did you add and how do you envision the manual maintaining its relevance for public health workers in the future?
- What are your hopes for the new U.S. presidential administration in terms of the United States’ contributions to better global health and the fight against infectious disease?
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