Donald Burke

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Donald Burke is one of the world's foremost experts on the prevention, diagnosis, and control of infectious diseases of global concern. He is Distinguished University Professor of Health Science and Policy at the University of Pittsburgh.

Education
 Bachelor of Arts magna cum laude, Western Reserve University, 1967
 Doctorate in Medicine, Harvard Medical School, 1971

Career
Don Burke is a Distinguished University Professor of Health Science and Policy at the University of Pittsburgh, and dean emeritus of the Graduate School of Public Health. Burke was the longest serving dean in the history of the school (2006-19). He is also the former associate vice chancellor for global health and director of the Center for Vaccine Research.

He is one of the world's foremost experts on the prevention, diagnosis, and control of emerging infectious diseases and infectious diseases of global concern, especially HIV/AIDS, Hepatitis A, and avian influenza. His research has spanned a wide range of scientific activities, including development of new diagnostics, field studies, clinical vaccine trials, computational modeling of epidemic control strategies, and health policy analysis.

Before coming to Pittsburgh, Burke was Professor of International Health and Professor of Epidemiology at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, and Professor of Medicine at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine. He was previously involved in infectious diseases research for several U.S. government agencies, retiring from the U.S. Army Medical Corps as a Colonel after 23 years of service. He has lectured widely on the history of microbiology and vaccines.

Selected honors
 Member, Institute of Medicine of the National Academies of Science, 2009
 UPMC–Jonas Salk Chair in Global Health, University of Pittsburgh, 2006
 Fellow, American Epidemiological Society, 2006
 Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science, 2003
 Fellow, American Academy of Microbiology, 2000
 Fellow, Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, U.K.

Publications
Don Burke is author or coauthor of over 200 scholarly papers. Five of them have been cited more than 1,000 times in other papers, notably "Multifactorial index of cardiac risk in noncardiac surgical procedures", published in 1977 in the New England Journal of Medicine, and cited over 2,800 times since then.

References

External links
 Video: Burke Speaks about Smallpox: The Death of a Disease

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