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Public Health Hero Honored

From U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

September 17, 2001

Dr. William Foege, 66, has been awarded this year's Albert Lasker Award for Public Service. Foege and his wife Paula went to Nigeria in the mid-1960s as medical missionaries. Foege discovered the "surveillance and containment" strategy that led to the complete eradication of smallpox in 1977. After the smallpox campaign ended, Foege was appointed director of the CDC. In that capacity in the early 1980s, Foege presided over the emergence of the AIDS epidemic as the agency struggled to convince politicians and others that it was more than just a "gay disease." After leaving the CDC in 1984, Foege resumed teaching, at Emory University in Atlanta, and took the reins of the Carter Center. Foege is currently serving as a senior adviser on global health to the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.


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Adapted from:
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
09.17.01; Tom Paulson

  
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This article was provided by U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. It is a part of the publication CDC HIV/Hepatitis/STD/TB Prevention News Update.
 
 

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