商品簡介
American Plagues relates stories of epidemics of our past—smallpox, yellow fever, malaria, polio—offering lessons that help us better understand and contain other infectious diseases and health problems like HIV/AIDS or Ebola. Readers learn how the diseases worked their mischief and who helped to finally conquer them.
作者簡介
Stephen H. Gehlbach, MD, MPH, was Dean of the School of Public Health and Health Sciences at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. He served as a member of the Epidemic Intelligence Service with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) based in Atlanta. He was a member of the Council on Education for Public Health, the national accrediting body for academic public health programs in the United States. He was president of that organization and chaired numerous accreditation site visits to schools of public health across the country. He has also acted as an independent consultant on curriculum development and accreditation to a number of schools and public health programs. Gehlbach has been a committed educator throughout his career. He continued in the classroom during his administrative posts and currently teaches courses in the fields of epidemiology and preventive medicine including “Clinical Preventive Services” and “Epidemiology and Medical Care.” He is the author of two books related to epidemiology: Interpreting the Medical Literature, andAmerican Plagues: Lessons from Our Battles with Disease. In 2010 he received a Fulbright award to Lebanon where he taught and advised students in a health sciences program. He has also been an active medical researcher with over 80 peer-reviewed journal articles. He has been a core member of a research team conducting an international, cohort study of osteoporosis in women that has followed over 50,000 women in 10 countries for 6 years.
