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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Donald Ainslie Henderson was an American medical doctor, educator, and epidemiologist who directed a 10-year international effort that eradicated smallpox throughout the world and launched international childhood vaccination programs. From 1977 to 1990, he was Dean of the Johns Hopkins School of Public Health. Later, he played a leading role in instigating national programs for public health preparedness and response following biological attacks and national disasters. At the time of his death, he was Professor and Dean Emeritus of the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, and Professor of Medicine and Public Health at the University of Pittsburgh, as well as Distinguished Scholar at the UPMC Center for Health Security.
Donald Henderson's Published Works
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- Botulinum toxin as a biological weapon: medical and public health management. (2001) (1651)
- Tularemia as a biological weapon: medical and public health management. (2001) (1343)
- Smallpox as a biological weapon: medical and public health management. Working Group on Civilian Biodefense. (1999) (1148)
- Anthrax as a biological weapon, 2002: updated recommendations for management. (2002) (986)
- Plague as a biological weapon: medical and public health management. Working Group on Civilian Biodefense. (2000) (953)
- Anthrax as a biological weapon: medical and public health management. Working Group on Civilian Biodefense. (1999) (935)
- Hemorrhagic fever viruses as biological weapons: medical and public health management. (2002) (671)
- The looming threat of bioterrorism. (1999) (490)
- Diagnosis and management of smallpox. (2002) (339)
- The measles epidemic. The problems, barriers, and recommendations. The National Vaccine Advisory Committee. (1991) (282)
- Measles elimination in the Americas. Evolving strategies. (1996) (270)
- Smallpox vaccination: a review, part II. Adverse events. (2003) (201)
- Bioterrorism as a public health threat. (1998) (199)
- An airborne outbreak of smallpox in a German hospital and its significance with respect to other recent outbreaks in Europe. (1970) (193)
- Poxvirus dilemmas--monkeypox, smallpox, and biologic terrorism. (1998) (164)
- Complications of smallpox vaccination. I. National survey in the United States, 1963. (1967) (142)
- Contact vaccinia--transmission of vaccinia from smallpox vaccination. (2002) (140)
- Smallpox and Vaccinia (1999) (139)
- Polio eradication from the Western Hemisphere. (1992) (134)
- The eradication of smallpox--an overview of the past, present, and future. (2011) (130)
- Smallpox: clinical and epidemiologic features. (1999) (118)
- Disease mitigation measures in the control of pandemic influenza. (2006) (106)
- PARALYTIC DISEASE ASSOCIATED WITH ORAL POLIO VACCINES. (1964) (100)
- Botulinum toxin as a biological weapon (2001) (97)
- Smallpox eradication in West and Central Africa. (1975) (95)
- Eradication: lessons from the past. (1998) (94)
- Public health and medical responses to the 1957-58 influenza pandemic. (2009) (92)
- The statistical analysis of truncated data: application to the Sverdlovsk anthrax outbreak. (2001) (90)
- Smallpox and monkeypox in non-human primates. (1968) (87)
- Smallpox vaccination: a review, part I. Background, vaccination technique, normal vaccination and revaccination, and expected normal reactions. (2003) (86)
- Principles and lessons from the smallpox eradication programme. (1987) (85)
- Tularemia as a biological weapon (2001) (82)
- Smallpox: The Death of a Disease (2011) (77)
- Countering the posteradication threat of smallpox and polio. (2002) (72)
- Complications of smallpox vaccination United States 1963. II. Results obtained by four statewide surveys. (1967) (72)
- Smallpox eradication--a cold war victory. (1998) (72)
- Anthrax: The Investigation of a Deadly Outbreak (2000) (68)
- The eradication of smallpox. (1976) (67)
- Measles and rubella eradication in the Americas. (2011) (62)
- A follow-up of cases of plumbism in children. (1954) (55)
- Smear layer: removal and bonding considerations. (1984) (53)
- Hospital preparedness for pandemic influenza. (2006) (51)
- Control and Eradication (2006) (50)
- The aetiology of chronic nephritis in Queensland. (1958) (49)
- The dengue threat to the United States. (2010) (41)
- Biosecurity and Bioterrorism: Biodefense Strategy, Practice, and Science. A decade in biosecurity. Introduction. (2012) (39)
- Lessons from the eradication of smallpox: an interview with D. A. Henderson (2013) (39)
- Studies of cholera El Tor in the Philippines. 3. Transmission of infection among household contacts of cholera patients. (1965) (38)
- Surveillance of smallpox. (1976) (37)
- Ethics and international research (1997) (37)
- Lessons from the eradication campaigns. (1999) (36)
- Original Antigenic Sin and Pandemic (H1N1) 2009 (2010) (34)
- Monkeypox and whitepox viruses in West and Central Africa. (1976) (33)
- Preventing the use of biological weapons: improving response should prevention fail. (2000) (33)
- HIV infection and immunization against other agents. (1987) (31)
- The Lead Content of Bone in Chronic Bright's Disease. (1957) (30)
- The Role of Research in Viral Disease Eradication and Elimination Programs: Lessons for Malaria Eradication (2011) (30)
- Measles Elimination In the Americas-Reply (1996) (30)
- Chronic nephritis in Queensland. (1955) (29)
- Recent events and observations pertaining to smallpox virus destruction in 2002. (2001) (28)
- Life Sciences at a Crossroads: Respiratory Transmissible H5N1 (2012) (27)
- The miracle of vaccination* (1997) (27)
- Studies of cholera El Tor in the Philippines. 2. A retrospective investigation of an explosive outbreak in Bacolod City and Talisay, November 1961. (1965) (26)
- Smallpox vaccination by intradermal jet injection. I. Introduction, background and results of pilot studies. (1969) (25)
- Navigating the storm: report and recommendations from the Atlantic Storm exercise. (2005) (25)
- Studies of cholera El Tor in the Philippines. 4. Transmission of infection among neighbourhood and community contacts of cholera patients. (1965) (24)
- Assessment of serosurveys for H5N1. (2013) (24)
- Improving performance of HVAC systems to reduce exposure to aerosolized infectious agents in buildings; recommendations to reduce risks posed by biological attacks. (2006) (23)
- Disease eradication and control in the Americas. (1993) (22)
- Smallpox: The Death of a Disease - The Inside Story of Eradicating a Worldwide Killer (2009) (20)
- Inactivated Measles Virus Vaccine (1962) (20)
- Epidemiology in the global eradication of smallpox. (1972) (19)
- Cooperative measles vaccine field trial. I. Clinical efficacy. (1966) (19)
- About the First National Symposium on Medical and Public Health Response to Bioterrorism (1999) (18)
- Smallpox virus destruction and the implications of a new vaccine. (2011) (18)
- AN OUTBREAK OF HEPATITIS TRACED TO FOOD CONTAMINATION. (1965) (17)
- Smallpox and its eradicationcontinued. (1988) (17)
- The siren song of eradication. (1998) (16)
- AN OUTBREAK OF HEPATITIS TRACED TO FOOD CONTAMINATION. (1965) (16)
- ORAL POLIOMYELITIS VACCINES. REPORT OF SPECIAL ADVISORY COMMITTEE ON ORAL POLIOMYELITIS VACCINES TO THE SURGEON GENERAL OF THE PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE. (1964) (15)
- GLOBAL MEASLES ERADICATION (1982) (15)
- Experience in the United States (1965) (15)
- The Two Faces of Smallpox: A Disease and Its Prevention in Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Sweden (1999) (14)
- Rethinking Smallpox (2004) (14)
- The challenge of eradication: lessons from past eradication campaigns. (1998) (13)
- The smallpox threat: a time to reconsider global policy. (2014) (13)
- The risk of engineering a highly transmissible H5N1 virus. (2012) (13)
- Studies of cholera El Tor in the Philippines. I. Characteristics of cholera El Tor in Negros Occidental Province, November 1961 to September 1962. (1965) (12)
- The Threat of Aerosolized Biological Weapons (2004) (11)
- Smallpox eradication--the final battle. (1975) (11)
- Surveillance of poliomyelitis in the United States, 1962-65. (1967) (11)
- Recommendations for future research and action (1993) (11)
- Selective primary health care. XXV. Management priorities. (1986) (11)
- Biopreparedness and public health. (2001) (10)
- Defining global medical education needs (1989) (9)
- Urbanization of Rural America (1997) (8)
- Reflections on epidemic neuromyasthenia (chronic fatigue syndrome). (1994) (8)
- Monovalent Asian influenza vaccine: evaluation of its use during two waves of epidemic Asian influenza in partly immunized penitentiary population. (1960) (8)
- The history of smallpox eradication. (1980) (8)
- Meeting Report Hospital Preparedness for Pandemic Influenza (2006) (8)
- The history of smallpox eradication. (1980) (7)
- Vaccination policies and practices. (2010) (7)
- The Scientific Response to a Pandemic (2006) (7)
- A discussion on technologies for rural health. Smallpox eradication. (1977) (7)
- Optimization of interventions in ebola: differential contagion. (2014) (7)
- Strategies for the Twenty-First Century - Control or Eradication?* (1992) (6)
- Point-counterpoint: the public health versus medical model of prevention. (1989) (6)
- Potential use of new poliomyelitis vaccines: memorandum from a WHO meeting. (1990) (6)
- Monkeypox and its relevance to smallpox eradication. (1973) (6)
- 32 – Smallpox and vaccinia (2013) (6)
- Developed countries should not use inactivated polio vaccine for the prevention of poliomyelitis (1997) (6)
- Eradication of Smallpox (1973) (5)
- Smallpox: clinical and epidemiologic features. (1999) (5)
- Smallpox: epitaph for a killer? (1978) (4)
- The saga of smallpox eradication: an end and a beginning. (1979) (4)
- Commentary on Dr. Alan Zelicoff's Epidemiological Analysis of the Aralsk Outbreak (No. 3) (2003) (4)
- Thirty years after smallpox: celebration and sobering thoughts. (2010) (4)
- THE CEREBROSPINAL FLUID IN TYPE III POLIOMYELITIS (1966) (4)
- Smallpox and monkeypox in primates. (1969) (4)
- Smallpox eradication: a WHO success storycontinued. (1987) (4)
- The deliberate extinction of a species. (1982) (4)
- The saga of smallpox eradication: an end and a beginning. (1979) (4)
- Vaccination with attenuated polioviruses in Costa Rica (1959) (4)
- Preface: On the Eradication of Smallpox and the Beginning of a Public Health Career (2011) (3)
- OUTBREAKS OF SMALLPOX DUE TO VARIOLATION IN CHINA, 1962–1965 (1988) (3)
- Role of the United States in the global response to emerging infections. (1994) (3)
- Smallpox epidemic models and response strategies. (2013) (3)
- New challenges for tropical medicine. (1993) (3)
- The challenge of eradication: lessons from past eradication campaign [The Pittsfield Lecture]. (1998) (3)
- Chapter 58 – Smallpox and Monkeypox (2006) (3)
- Comments from the Center for Biosecurity of UPMC on proposed revisions to federal quarantine rules. (2006) (3)
- The Siren Song of Eradication (1998) (3)
- Recognition and treatment of anthrax [4] (multiple letters) (1999) (3)
- Universal influenza vaccination: an optimal goal--but how and when? (2010) (2)
- Emerging problems in infectious diseases. (1999) (2)
- 15 Bioterrorism An Overview (2014) (2)
- A history of eradication—successes, failures, and controversies Nancy Leys Stepan (2012) (2)
- David A. Koplow. Smallpox: The Fight to Eradicate a Global Scourge (2004) (2)
- John Bartlett and bioterrorism. (2014) (2)
- Smallpox eradication (1977) (2)
- Role of the United States in the global response to emerging infections. (1994) (2)
- Recognition and Treatment of Anthrax—Reply (1999) (1)
- Stocks of variola virus. (1987) (1)
- REPORT ON ORAL POLIO VACCINES. (1965) (1)
- Citation of Unethical Research—Reply (2002) (1)
- Measles and Rubella Eradication in the Americas Seasoned Strategies for Sustained Success (2011) (1)
- Invited Commentary on “Epidemiology of Smallpox in West Pakistan III. Outbreak Detection and Interlocality Transmission” (1995) (1)
- Current status of live attenuated virus vaccines. (1966) (1)
- Recombinant Vaccinia Virus Vaccines (1999) (1)
- HISTORY OF CURRENT THREAT EPIDEMIOLOGY OF ANTHRAX MICROBIOLOGY PATHOGENESIS AND CLINICAL MANIFESTATIONS DIAGNOSIS VACCINATION THERAPY INFECTION CONTROL DECONTAMINATION AUTHOR/ARTICLE INFORMATION REFERENCES INDEX OF FIGURES AND TABLES Anthrax as a Biological Weapon, 2002 Updated Recommendations for M (2002) (1)
- Smallpox, Public Health Threat (2003) (1)
- Smallpox and Bioterrorism (2008) (1)
- Chapter 7 – Disease Eradication and Control (2006) (1)
- Control and Eradication of Smallpox (1971) (1)
- A conversation with D. A. Henderson. Interview by Jonathan M. Samet. (2005) (1)
- A discussion on technologies for rural health. Smallpox eradication. (1977) (1)
- Bioweapons preparedness chief discusses priorities in world of 21st-century biology. Interview by Rebecca Voelker. (2002) (1)
- Primary Health Care as a Practical Means for Measles Control: Discussion (1983) (1)
- American College of Epidemiology 10th annual scientific meeting. Disparities in health between minorities and nonminorities. Recommendations for future research and action. (1993) (1)
- Current status of live attenuated virus vaccines. (1966) (1)
- Children's vaccine initiative ad hoc committee on an investment strategy for measles control (1994) (1)
- MEASLES ELIMINATION IN THE AMERICAS. AUTHORS' REPLY (1996) (1)
- Strategies for Vaccine Delivery: Introduction (1989) (1)
- Smallpox eradication in West and Central Africa. Commentary (1998) (1)
- The cerebrospinal fluid in type 3 poliomyelitis. (1966) (1)
- Assessment of Serosurveys for H 5 N 1 (2013) (1)
- CONTINUING EDUCATION AND PEER REVIEW (1980) (0)
- TOXIC REACTIONS TO DRUGS, FROM THE POINT OF VIEW OF THE GENERAL PHYSICIAN * (1959) (0)
- Combating mad cow disease in the United States. (1997) (0)
- Smallpox: The Fight to Eradicate a Global Scourge (review) (2004) (0)
- Special section: Confronting biological weapons (2000) (0)
- Book ReviewVaccination, not eradication: The Eradication of Smallpox by Hervé Bazin (2000) (0)
- Dawn of a New Era for Infectious Disease Challenges (2014) (0)
- Factors in African Americans Pursuing Higher Education after Age 30 Years. (2011) (0)
- Public health and virus diseases. (1985) (0)
- Studies ofCholera ElTorinthePhilippines (1965) (0)
- Confronting Biological Plagues (2014) (0)
- [Evaluation of the vaccination programs]. (1969) (0)
- SMAILPOX ERADICATION : A SAGA OF TRIUMPH AND BETRAYAL (1999) (0)
- Chapter 2 Smallpox and Bioterrorism (2019) (0)
- Ad Hoc Advisory Committee on Poliomyelitis Vaccines -- 1964 -- Poliomyelitis, Conferences/Committees -- letter, 1964-07-02 (1964) (0)
- Use of surveillance in disease eradication efforts: PART 1: Introduction to the concept and use of surveillance in the eradication of smallpox (2013) (0)
- An exclusive profile/interview of Dr. Donald A. Henderson, dean of the Johns Hopkins University School of Hygiene and Public Health. Interview by Blaine Taylor. (1980) (0)
- Others should follow the US line on bioweapons (1999) (0)
- NEWER SURVEILLANCE METHODS IN THE CONTROL OF COMMUNICABLE DISEASE. II. VIRAL HEPATITIS. EXPERIENCE IN THE UNITED STATES. (1965) (0)
- War and Public Health. Barry S. Levy and Victor W. Sidel, eds. New York: Oxford University Press, 1997, 421 pp. US$55.00. ISBN 0-19-510814-0. Oxford University Press, 198 Madison Ave., New York, NY 10016-4314, USA. (1998) (0)
- Opera and Politics: From Monteverdi to Henze. By Bokina John. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1997. 240p. $25.00. (1998) (0)
- Books Received (1995) (0)
- The Red, White, and Black Continent. Latin America—Land of Reformers and Rebels (1967) (0)
- Poliomyelitis surveillance report no. 285, SEPTEMBER 30, 1964 (1964) (0)
- Lessons Learned from Smallpox Eradication and Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Outbreak: Part 1: The use of Surveillance in the Eradication of Smallpox and Poliomyelitis (2008) (0)
- The Triumph of Scientific Medicine in America: An Essay Review (1982) (0)
- Is Influenza Vaccination Worthwhile? (1965) (0)
- Knowledge, Information and Intergovernmental Cooperation (2000) (0)
- The eradication of smallpox (Hervé Bazin) (2000) (0)
- Combating mad cow disease in the United States. (1997) (0)
- Organizing for Health Rather than Sickness (2019) (0)
- RECOGNITION AND TREATMENT OF ANTHRAX. AUTHORS' REPLY (1999) (0)
- A centennial remembrance of Koch's discovery of the tubercle bacillus: William Osler, Harbinger of clinical microscopy. (1982) (0)
- Expanding horizons on a diminishing planet. (1981) (0)
- The Child Survival Revolution (1990) (0)
- Feeble fortress vs variola. (1970) (0)
- Evaluation of the vaccination programs (1969) (0)
- Studies on the total synthesis of lactonamycin. (2005) (0)
- NEWER SURVEILLANCE METHODS IN THE CONTROL OF COMMUNICABLE DISEASE. II. VIRAL HEPATITIS. EXPERIENCE IN THE UNITED STATES. (1965) (0)
- The lessons learnt. (1987) (0)
- An exclusive profile/interview of Dr. Donald A. Henderson, dean of the Johns Hopkins University School of Hygiene and Public Health. Interview by Blaine Taylor. (1980) (0)
- Victory over smallpox: interview with Donald A. Henderson. (1986) (0)
- Public health and virus diseases. (1985) (0)
- A centennial remembrance of Koch's discovery of the tubercle bacillus: William Osler, Harbinger of clinical microscopy. (1982) (0)
- Modelling and analysis of non-coding DNA sequence data. (1999) (0)
- Henderson, Donald A. “DA”, MD, MPH, (EIS Class 1955) [interview with Donald A. Henderson conducted April 12, 2012 by Karen Torghele] (2012) (0)
- D.A. Henderson: acting globally, thinking locally. (2003) (0)
- Design of immunization programmes for developing countries. (1972) (0)
- CONFRONTING B IOLOGICAL W EAPONS INVITED A RTICLE (2004) (0)
- Synthesis of L-(-)-Carnitine (2006) (0)
- Bioterrorism (2014) (0)
- Emerging problems in infectious diseases. (1999) (0)
- Vaccination, not eradication (2000) (0)
- Continuing education: a solution. (1980) (0)
- Continuing education: a solution. (1980) (0)
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