William Foege

Infobox Person
name = William H. Foege

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image_size = 200px
birth_date = birth date and age|1936|3|12
birth_place = Decorah, Iowa
occupation = Epidemiologist
employer = Centers for Disease Control

William H. Foege (IPA|/'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 Foundationcite web | url = http://www.gatesfoundation.org/AboutUs/QuickFacts/LeadershipStaff/BioGHFoege.htm | title = William Foege | author = Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation | accessdate = 2007-11-28 ]
*Advisory Board Member, Emory University Global Health Institutecite web | url = http://www.sph.emory.edu/GHI/aboutUs/advisoryBoard/foege.php | title = Global Health Institute: William H. Foege| accessdate = 2007-11-28 | author = Emory University]
*Professor Emeritus, Rollins School of Public Healthcite web | url = http://www.sph.emory.edu/faculty/WFOEGE | title = William H. Foege| accessdate = 2007-11-28 | author = Rollins School of Public Health]
*Health Policy Fellow, The Carter Centercite web | url = http://cartercenter.org/about/history/chronology_1980.html | author = The Carter Center | title = Frequently Asked Questions | accessdate = 2007-11-28 ]
*Executive Director (1986 - 1992), The Carter Center
*Honorary Fellow, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine [http://www.lshtm.ac.uk/annualreport/annualreport2005-06.pdf Annual Report, 2005-2006, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine] ]
*Regent, Pacific Lutheran University

Awards and honors

*Mary Woodard Lasker Award for Public Service, 2001
*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

*cite book | author = Amler, Robert W.; Dull, H. Bruce | title = Closing the G
publisher = Oxford University Press | location = Oxford [Oxfordshire] | year = 1987 | pages = | isbn = 0-19-505483-0 | oclc = 16755579
*cite book | author = Albert Schweitzer | title = The Primeval Forest | publisher = Johns Hopkins University Press in association with The Institute for the Humanities | location = Baltimore, Md | year = 1998 | pages = | isbn = 0-8018-5958-1 | oclc = 38925138
*cite book | author = O'Carroll, Patrick W. | title = Public Health Informatics and Information Systems | publisher = Springer | location = Berlin | year = 2003 | pages = | isbn = 0-387-95474-0 | oclc = 133157982
*cite book | author = Pearson, Clarence E.; Rockefeller, David; William H. Foege; Black, Robert | title = Global Health Leadership and Management | publisher = Jossey-Bass | location = San Francisco | year = 2005 | pages = | isbn = 0-7879-7153-7 | oclc = 57579300

Journal articles

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

References

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