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"This work describes the history of global health as a story of evolution, with some changes fading for lack of advantage and other changes advancing the field to provide more power or efficiency"-- Provided by publisher.
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William H. Foege is the emeritus presidential distinguished professor of international health at Emory University. He was a director of the Centers for Disease Control, the founding director of the Carter Presidential Center, and a cofounder of the Task Force for Child Survival (now the Task Force for Global Health). He was also an early consultant to the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. He is the author of House on Fire: The Fight to Eradicate Smallpox; The Fears of the Rich, the Needs of the Poor: My Years at the CDC; The Task Force for Child Survival: Secrets of Successful Coalitions; and a coauthor of Change Is Possible: Reflections on the History of Global Health. In 2012, he was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom.Paul Elish, MPH, is currently pursuing a PhD in International Health at Johns Hopkins University. He holds an MPH in Global Epidemiology from Emory University and most recently worked in international respiratory virus surveillance strengthening at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. His prior work experience spans the academic, private, and nonprofit sectors, with a primary focus on public health issues in Latin America, Sub-Saharan Africa, and the United States.Alison T. Hoover, MPH, is a researcher at Emory University focusing on gender, reproductive and sexual health, and bioethics. Prior to Emory, she worked as a communications consultant in Vietnam and a program evaluator in Mexico and Bolivia. She was named a 120 Under 40 global leader in family planning by the William H. Gates Sr. Institute for Population and Reproductive Health in 2019.Madison Gabriella Lee, MPH, is a research environmental scientist. Her research is focused on assessing exposure to chemical contaminants and has appeared in the International Journal of Hygiene and Environmental Health. She is an alumna of North Carolina State University and the Rollins School of Public Health at Emory University.Deborah Chen Tseng, MPH, is a current Oak Ridge Institute for Science and Education (ORISE) fellow with CDC-INFO at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. She previously worked in Appalachian Kentucky with middle schoolers, high schoolers, and staff in the areas of health education and health promotion.Kiera Chan, MPH, is a PhD student at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. Her research studies the intersection of patient-centered care and health disparities, and her work has been featured in scientific publications on women’s health and in a TEDx Talk. She has worked previously with several nonprofits, including Days for Girls International, CARE International, and the International Association for Premenstrual Disorders. She is committed to global health through community work, advocacy, and research.
