Stephen S. Morse
Stephen S. Morse (born November 22, 1951) is an American
Biography
Youth and education
Morse was born in New York City on November 22, 1951. He attended the Bronx High School of Science, and received a
Career
Morse was formerly an assistant professor of virology at
Morse served on the steering committee of the Institute of Medicine's Forum on Microbial Threats, and the National Academy of Sciences' Committee on Biodefense. He was the founding chair of a nonprofit organization called
Morse returned to Columbia University in 2000, where he is professor of epidemiology, curriculum coordinator for the Center for Public Health Preparedness and co-director of the USAID PREDICT Project as well as director of the MPH Infectious Disease Epidemiology Certificate. He is also affiliated with the Center for Infectious Disease Epidemiologic Research and the National Center for Disaster Preparedness. Morse works with the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene (DOHMH) on enhancing emergency preparedness and on training the public health workforce.
Awards, accolades and positions
- Director, USAID PREDICT
- Fellow, American Academy of Microbiology
- Fellow, American College of Epidemiology
- Fellow, New York Academy of Sciences (and Past Chair, Microbiology Section)
- Fellow, New York Academy of Medicine
- Founding chair, ProMED (Program for Monitoring Emerging Diseases)
- Fellow, AAAS
- Life Member, Council on Foreign Relations
Selected works
Books
- Morse, S.S. (Ed.) (1993). Emerging Viruses. New York and Oxford: Oxford Univ. Press.
- Morse, S.S. (Ed.) (1994). The Evolutionary Biology of Viruses. New York: Raven Press/Wolters Kluwer.
Reviews and research papers
- Morse, S.S., Schluederberg, A. "Emerging viruses: The evolution of viruses and viral diseases." J. Infect. Dis. 162: 1-7 (1990).
- Morse, S.S. "Factors in the emergence of infectious diseases." Emerging Infectious Diseases1: 7-15 (1995).
- Morse, S.S., Rosenberg, B.H., Woodall, J. "Global monitoring of emerging diseases: design for a demonstration program." Health Policy 38: 135-153 (1996).
- Rosenfield A., Morse S.S., Yanda K. "September 11: The response and role of public health" Am J Publ Hlth 92 10-11 (2002).
- Morse SS "The vigilance defense" Scientific American 287 88-89 (2002).
- Morse SS "Building academic-practice partnerships: The Center for Public Health Preparedness at the Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health, before and after 9/11 " J Publ Jlth Mgmt Practice 9 427-432 (2003)
- Olson, D.R., Simonsen, L., Edelson, P.J., Morse, S.S. "Epidemiological evidence of an early wave of the 1918 influenza pandemic in New York City." Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. (USA) 102: 11059-11063 (2005)
- Morse, S.S., Garwin, R.L., Olsiewski, P.J. "Next Flu Pandemic: What to Do Until the Vaccine Arrives?" Science 314: 929 (2006).
- Morse, S.S. "The U.S. pandemic influenza implementation plan at six months." Nature Medicine 13: 681-684 (2007).
- Morse, S.S. "Global infectious disease surveillance and health intelligence." Health Affairs 26: 1069-1077 (2007).
- Morse, S.S. "Pandemic influenza: Studying the lessons of history." Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. (USA) 104: 7313-7314 (2007).
- Murray, E.J., Morse, S.S. "Seasonal oscillation of human infection with H5N1 Influenza A in Egypt and Indonesia." PLoS ONE 6(9): e24042 (2010). doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0024042.
- Morse, S.S. "Public health surveillance and infectious disease detection." Biosecurity and Bioterrorism 10(1): 6-16 (2012).
- Morse, S.S., Mazet, J.A.K., Woolhouse, M., Parrish, C.R., Carroll, D., Karesh, W.B., Zambrana-Torrelio, C., Lipkin, W.I., Daszak, P. "Prediction and prevention of the next pandemic zoonosis." Lancet 380(9857): 1956-1965 (2012).
- Anthony, S.J., Epstein, J.H., Murray, K.A., Navarrete-Macias, I., Zambrana-Torrelio, C.M., Solovyov, A., Ojeda-Flores, R., Arrigo, N.C., Islam, A., Ali Khan, S., Hosseini, P., Bogich, T.L., Olival, K.J., Sanchez-Leon, M.D., Karesh, W.B., Goldstein, T., Luby, S.P., Morse, S.S., Mazet, J.A.K., Daszak, P., Lipkin, W.I. "A strategy to estimate unknown viral diversity in mammals." mBio 4(5):e00598-13 (2013).
- González, M.C., Morse, S.S. (2013). "Global influenza surveillance: advances in technology." In: Ask the experts: influenza surveillance (J. Oxford and J.S. Taubenberger, eds.), Chapter 2. Expert Reviews/Future Science, London, UK [e-book] (2013).
- Morse, S.S. "Public health disease surveillance networks." ASM Microbiology Spectrum 1(3):OH-0002-2012. doi:10.1128/microbiolspec.OH-0002-2012 (2013).