INTERNATIONAL. As part of our continuing service to update the travel retail community on the novel coronavirus outbreak and its impact on business, The Moodie Davitt Report is pleased to announce a phone-in audience with David Heymann, Professor of Infectious Disease Epidemiology at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine and Head of the Centre on Global Health Security at Chatham House, London.
From 2012 to March 2017, Dr Heymann was chairman of Public Health England. Earlier in his distinguished career, he was Executive Director of the Communicable Diseases Cluster, and headed the global response to SARS in 2003.
The free phone-in will take place on Wednesday 5 February from 9am to 10am GMT.
Dial-in information will be provided later today on a first-come, first-serve basis to registered respondents (please email Martin@MoodieDavittReport.com to register)
The interview will be led by The Moodie Davitt Report Founder & Chairman Martin Moodie. Participants will be asked to register their personal details when they call in. Questions can be submitted beforehand to Martin@MoodieDavittReport.com and there will be the additional opportunity to ask live questions.
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About Dr David Heymann
https://www.lshtm.ac.uk/aboutus/people/heymann.david
Heymann holds a BA in general science from Penn State University, an MD from Wake Forest School of Medicine, and a Diploma in Tropical Medicine and Hygiene from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (LSHTM). He is currently Professor of Infectious Disease Epidemiology at LSHTM and Head of the Centre on Global Health Security at Chatham House, London. From 2012 to March 2017, he was chairman of Public Health England
For 22 years Dr Heymann was based at the World Health Organization (WHO) in Geneva on secondment from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), during which time he rose from Chief of Research of the Global Programme on AIDS to Founding Director of the Programme on Emerging and other Communicable Diseases. He then was named Executive Director of the Communicable Diseases Cluster, a position from which he headed the global response to SARS, and finally was named Assistant Director for Health Security and the Director General’s Representative for Polio Eradication.
Before joining the WHO, Heymann was based for 13 years in sub-Saharan Africa on assignment from CDC where he worked in Cameroon, Cote d’Ivoire, DRC and Malawi. During this period he participated in the response to the first, second and third outbreaks of Ebola hemorrhagic fever in DRC, investigated human monkeypox outbreaks throughout Central and Western Africa, and supported ministries of health in field research aimed at better control of malaria, measles, tuberculosis and other infectious diseases. Prior to joining CDC, Heymann worked in India for two years as a medical epidemiologist in the WHO smallpox eradication programme.
Dr Heymann is an elected fellow of the Institute of Medicine of the National Academies (US) and the Academy of Medical Sciences (UK), and has received seven different public health awards, including the Heinz Award on the Human Condition, that have provided funding for the establishment of an ongoing mentorship programme at the International Association of Public Health Institutes.
Dr Heymann has published over 200 peer-reviewed articles, commentaries and book chapters, and is the Editor of the Control of Communicable Diseases Manual, a major global reference for public health and health protection. In 2009, he was appointed an honorary Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire (CBE) for service to global public health.
Recent articles involving Dr David Heymann on coronavirus
Bloomberg: Studies Portray China Virus as ‘Insidious’ and Similar to SARS
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/world/asia/china-wuhan-coronavirus-maps.html
