William Foege

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William H. Foege
Born	March 12, 1936 (1936-03-12) (age 72) Decorah, Iowa
Occupation	Epidemiologist
Employer	Centers for Disease Control

William H. Foege (/'fe?gi:/), M.D., M.P.H. (born 1936-03-12, Decorah, Iowa) is an American epidemiologist who has worked extensively with smallpox, particularly its control in Nigeria.

Early life

Foege's father was a Lutheran minister in Eldorado, IA at the time of his birth. The family moved to Chewelah, Washington when Foege was 10 years of age. In his younger days he was inspired by Albert Schweitzer and by his uncle, Rev. Henry Foege, a pioneer Lutheran missionary to Papua New Guinea.

Education

Foege graduated from Pacific Lutheran University, completed his M.D. at the University of Washington and his Master's degree in public health from Harvard University.

Employment and Positions

• Director, Centers for Disease Control, (1977-1983)
• Senior Fellow, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation^[1]
• Advisory Board Member, Emory University Global Health Institute^[2]
• Professor Emeritus, Rollins School of Public Health^[3]
• Health Policy Fellow, The Carter Center^[4]
• Executive Director (1986 - 1992), The Carter Center^[4]
• Honorary Fellow, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine^[5]
• Regent, Pacific Lutheran University

Awards and honors

• Mary Woodard Lasker Award for Public Service, 2001
• Albert B. Sabin Gold Medal, 2006
• The William H. Foege building, named in his honor, houses the University of Washington School of Medicine's Departments of Bioengineering and Genome Science.

Bibliography

Books

• Amler, Robert W.; Dull, H. Bruce (1987). Closing the Gap: The Burden of Unnecessary Illness. Oxford [Oxfordshire]: Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-505483-0. OCLC 16755579. 
• Albert Schweitzer (1998). The Primeval Forest. Baltimore, Md: Johns Hopkins University Press in association with The Institute for the Humanities. ISBN 0-8018-5958-1. OCLC 38925138. 
• O'Carroll, Patrick W. (2003). Public Health Informatics and Information Systems. Berlin: Springer. ISBN 0-387-95474-0. OCLC 133157982. 
• Pearson, Clarence E.; Rockefeller, David; William H. Foege; Black, Robert (2005). Global Health Leadership and Management. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass. ISBN 0-7879-7153-7. OCLC 57579300. 

Journal articles

• Foege W (2002). "Keynote Address: Issues in Overcoming Iron Deficiency.". J. Nutr. 132 (4 Suppl): 790S–3S. PMID 11925483, http://jn.nutrition.org/cgi/pmidlookup?view=long&pmid=11925483. 
• Foege WH (2003). "Polio and Policy Options.". MedGenMed 5 (4): 34. PMID 14745381, http://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/466027. 
• Foege WH (2003). "Holding Our Breath.". MedGenMed 5 (1): 11. PMID 12827072, http://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/450180. 
• Foege WH (2004). "Redefining Public Health.". J Law Med Ethics 32 (4 Suppl): 23–6. doi:10.1111/j.1748-720X.2004.tb00178.x. PMID 15807317. 
• McGinnis JM, Foege WH (2004). "The Immediate vs The Important.". JAMA 291 (10): 1263–4. doi:10.1001/jama.291.10.1263. PMID 1501045110.1001/jama.291.10.1263, http://jama.ama-assn.org/cgi/pmidlookup?view=long&pmid=15010451. 

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