Michael H Merson
Michael Howard Merson
Interim Chair of the Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences
Clinical Professor of Global and Environmental Health
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Professional overview
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Michael Merson is Interim Chair of the Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences and a Clinical Professor of Global and Environmental Health at NYU. He also the William Joklik Emeritus Professor of Medicine and Global Health at Duke University, where he served as the founding director of the Duke Global Health Institute and as Vice President and Vice Provost for Global Affairs. His current research is focused on policy issues related to the response to pandemics, evaluating the rollout of Paxlovid in low-income countries and on ways to regain trust in public health.
Prior to NYU, he joined the faculty at Yale University as its first Dean of Public Health. Before entering academia, between 1980 and 1995, Dr. Merson served as director of the World Health Organization (WHO) programs on Diarrheal Diseases and Acute Respiratory Infections, and subsequently the WHO Global Program on AIDS. He has authored over 150 articles, is the senior editor of a leading global health textbook “Global Health: Disease, Programs, Systems, and Policies” and lead author of The AIDS Pandemic: Searching for a Global Response on the history of the global response to AIDS. He has served in advisory capacities for UNAIDS, WHO, the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, TB and Malaria, World Bank, World Economic Forum, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, and was an advisor to various private sector entities on the COVID-19 pandemic. He has two honorary degrees and is a member of the National Academy of Medicine.
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Education
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B.A., 1966, cum laude, Amherst College, Amherst, MassachusettsM.D., 1970, summa cum laude, SUNY, Health Sciences Center at Brooklyn, New York
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Honors and awards
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Consortium of Universities for Global Health (CUGH) Distinguished Leadership Award (2018)Duke Medical Alumni Association Distinguished Faculty Award (2017)Master Teacher Award in Preventive Medicine, Downstate Medical Center (2010)Outstanding Contribution to the Campaign Against HIV/AIDS, Russian Association Against AIDS (2000)Connecticut Health Commissioner’s AIDS Leadership Award (1998)Connecticut Health Commissioner’s AIDS Leadership Award (1997)Frank Babbott Alumni Award (1995)Surgeon General's Exemplary Service Medal (1993)Commendation Medal, US Public Health Service; (1986)Arthur S. Flemming Award for Outstanding Federal Service (1983)Commendation Medal, US Public Health Service (1975)
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Publications
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Early detection : The next steps
Failed retrieving data.Effectiveness of HIV prevention interventions in developing countries
Failed retrieving data.Enriching the mix : Incorporating structural factors into HIV prevention
Failed retrieving data.Global dimensions of the AIDS epidemic : Implications for prevention and care
Failed retrieving data.Structural interventions in public health
Failed retrieving data.The AIDS epidemic : lessons learned?
Failed retrieving data.Ethics of placebo-controlled trials of zidovudine to prevent the perinatal transmission of HIV in the Third World [1]
Failed retrieving data.Enhancing Awareness of Hospice Through Physician Assisted Living : Public Health Perspectives
Failed retrieving data.Rapid self testing for HIV infection
Failed retrieving data.Returning home : Reflections on the USA's response to the HIV/AIDS epidemic
Failed retrieving data.Global estimates and epidemiology of HIV-1 infections and AIDS : further heterogeneity in spread and impact.
Failed retrieving data.AIDS : NEW DISEASES AND MORBIDITY PATTERNS
Failed retrieving data.Explaining long-term HIV survivors.
Failed retrieving data.Making AIDS prevention a national priority.
Failed retrieving data.Childhood Immunizations
Failed retrieving data.Slowing the spread of HIV : Agenda for the 1990s
Failed retrieving data.Aids : The world situation
Failed retrieving data.Foreword
Failed retrieving data.AIDS : a special threat to women
Failed retrieving data.Global AIDS prevention and control.
Failed retrieving data.Global progress in the control of diarrheal diseases
Failed retrieving data.Control of diarrhoeal diseases
Failed retrieving data.Enfrentar a diarreia à escala mundial.
Failed retrieving data.Oral rehydration therapy - from theory to practice ( diarrhoeal disease).
Failed retrieving data.Oral'naia regidratatsiia pri ostrykh kishechnykh zabolevaniiakh.
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