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Donald Hopkins
Public Health Physician | Class of 1995
Title
Public Health Physician
Location
Atlanta, Georgia
Age
54 at time of award
Area of Focus
Public Health and Biomedical/Health Sciences
Published July 1, 1995
ABOUT DONALD'S WORK
Donald Hopkins is a public health physician who has devoted his career to eradicating preventable diseases.
Hopkins directed the Centers for Disease Control’s Smallpox Eradication/Measles Control Program in Sierra Leone, West Africa, and was a member of the team that eradicated smallpox in 1977. As a senior consultant for The Carter Center’s Global 2000 project, Hopkins led an effort to eradicate Guinea Worm disease (dracunculiasis), a painful, debilitating, yet preventable infection that has afflicted hundreds of thousands of people in Africa and Asia. Under his guidance, the program has already reduced the number of cases worldwide by ninety-nine percent. He also oversees the Center’s efforts to fight river blindness and trachoma in Africa and Latin America. A scholar of medical and social history, Hopkins is the author of Princes and Peasants: Smallpox in History (1983).
BIOGRAPHY
Hopkins is the associate executive director for health programs at The Carter Center. He served previously as the assistant director for international health (1978-1984), deputy director (1984-1987), and acting director (1985) at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. He was also an assistant professor of tropical public health at the Harvard School of Public Health.
Hopkins received a B.S. (1962) from Morehouse College, an M.D. (1966) from the University of Chicago, and an M.P.H. (1970) from Harvard University.
Last updated January 1, 2005
唐纳德-霍普金斯
公共卫生医师 | 1995级
职称
公共卫生医师
工作地点
乔治亚州亚特兰大市
年龄
获奖时为54岁
重点领域
公共卫生和生物医学/健康科学
发表于1995年7月1日
关于唐纳德的工作
唐纳德-霍普金斯是一位公共卫生医生,他的职业生涯致力于消除可预防的疾病。
霍普金斯指导了美国疾病控制中心在西非塞拉利昂的消灭天花/麻疹控制项目,并且是1977年消灭天花的小组成员之一。 作为卡特中心全球2000年项目的高级顾问,霍普金斯领导了消除几内亚蠕虫病(dracunculiasis)的工作,这是一种痛苦、衰弱但可预防的感染,困扰着非洲和亚洲的数十万人。 在他的指导下,该项目已经将全世界的病例数减少了99%。 他还负责监督该中心在非洲和拉丁美洲防治河盲症和沙眼的工作。 霍普金斯是一位研究医学和社会历史的学者,他是《王子与农民》的作者。历史上的天花》(1983)。
个人简历
霍普金斯是卡特中心负责健康项目的副执行主任。 他曾在美国疾病控制和预防中心担任过国际卫生助理主任(1978-1984)、副主任(1984-1987)和代理主任(1985)。 他还曾是哈佛大学公共卫生学院热带公共卫生的助理教授。
霍普金斯在莫尔豪斯学院获得学士学位(1962年),在芝加哥大学获得医学博士学位(1966年),并在哈佛大学获得公共卫生硕士(1970年)。
最后更新于2005年1月1日 |
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