Donald S Burke

I am now retired, holding the positions of Distinguished University Professor Emeritus of Health Science and Policy and Dean Emeritus of the School of Public Health at the University of Pittsburgh. I am the longest serving Dean (2006-2019) in the history of the school. I also served as the inaugural Jonas Salk Chair in Global Health, Director of the Center for Vaccine Research and Associate Vice Chancellor for Global Health.

Prior to becoming Dean at Pittsburgh, I was at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, where I was Professor of International Health, Director of the Center for Immunization Research, and won the Golden Apple award for best teacher. Before Johns Hopkins, I served for 23 years on active duty at the Walter Reed Army Institute of Research, where I directed medical research on virus diseases of military importance, including dengue, encephalitis, hepatitis, influenza, and HIV. I lived in Thailand for six years, worked extensively in Cameroon, and led cooperative research in India, China, South Africa, and other counties. I have authored over 300 articles and have a citation index that puts me in the top 1% of all infectious disease experts in the world. Through my studies of patterns of emerging diseases, in 1997 I was the first person in the world to warn that coronaviruses posed a serious threat to human health. While Dean I led an NIH infectious disease modeling Center of Excellence.

I have served in key advisory roles to the WHO, the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, and the NIH, FDA, and CDC. Most recently I have studied the epidemiology of drug overdoses. I am Past-President of the American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, a recipient of the John Snow Award for Epidemiology from the American Public Health Association, and the Langmuir Lectureship of the American Epidemiological Society, and I am a Member of the National Academy of Medicine. I co-

founded and served as former president of Epistemix, Inc., a start-up company that produces epidemic modeling software.

Though officially retired, I continue my research collaborations in an advisory role, and work on the history of infectious diseases.