Donald Burke
Donald Burke | |
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Born | Donald S. Burke |
Nationality | American |
Alma mater | Harvard Medical School Case Western Reserve University |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Microbiology |
Institutions | University of Pittsburgh |
Donald S. Burke is an expert on the prevention, diagnosis, and control of
Education
- Bachelor of Arts Western Reserve University, 1967
- Doctorate in Medicine, Harvard Medical School, 1971
Career
Burke is a Distinguished University Professor[1] of Health Science and Policy at the University of Pittsburgh, and dean emeritus of the Graduate School of Public Health. Burke was the longest serving dean in the history of the school (2006-19). He is also the former associate vice chancellor for global health and director of the Center for Vaccine Research.[2]
Burke is one of the world's foremost experts on the prevention, diagnosis, and control of emerging infectious diseases and infectious diseases of global concern, especially HIV/AIDS, Hepatitis A, and avian influenza. His research has spanned a wide range of scientific activities, including development of new diagnostics, field studies, clinical vaccine trials, computational modelling of epidemic control strategies, and health policy analysis.[3]
Before coming to Pittsburgh, Burke was Professor of International Health and Professor of Epidemiology at the
Selected honors
- John Snow Award, American Public Health Association, Epidemiology Section, 2018[2]
- Member, Institute of Medicine of the National Academies of Science, 2009[2]
- UPMC–Jonas Salk Chair in Global Health, University of Pittsburgh, 2006
- Fellow, American Epidemiological Society, 2006
- Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science, 2003
- Fellow, American Academy of Microbiology, 2000
- Fellow, Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, U.K.
Publications
Burke is author or coauthor of over 200 scholarly papers. Five of them have been cited more than 1,000 times in other papers, notably "Multifactorial index of cardiac risk in noncardiac surgical procedures", published in 1977 in the
Together with a number of other persons, in 2016 he proposed a
References
- ^ "Policy and Procedure Governing Appointments to Distinguished Professorships". University of Pittsburgh Faculty Handbook. University of Pittsburgh. 2013-02-05. Archived from the original on 2007-09-05. Retrieved 2017-03-16.
- ^ a b c d "Graduate School of Public Health - Donald S. Burke". Public Health website. University of Pittsburgh. Retrieved 2017-03-17.
- ^ "Burke Named Distinguished University Professor..." PittChronicle. University of Pittsburgh. 2011-06-20. Retrieved 2017-03-17.
- ^ "Don Burke - Google Scholar". Google Scholar. Google Scholar. 2017-03-17. Retrieved 2017-03-17.
- PMID 27059886.