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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Programma VOZ po bor'be s diareǐnymi bolezniami : sostoianie i perspektivy razvitiia--organizatsionno-operativnyǐ komponent programmy.
Failed retrieving data.Nutritional status, body size and severity of diarrhoea associated with rotavirus or enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli
Failed retrieving data.Diarrhoeal disease control : Reviews of potential interventions
Failed retrieving data.ORAL TYPHOID VACCINE Ty21a
Failed retrieving data.Prevention of Traveler's Diarrhea
Failed retrieving data.Serologic differentiation between antitoxin responses to infection with Vibrio cholerae and enterotoxin-producing Escherichia coli
Failed retrieving data.Contamination of weaning foods and transmission of enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli diarrhoea in children in rural Bangladesh
Failed retrieving data.Endemic cholera in rural Bangladesh, 1966-1980
Failed retrieving data.The magnitude of the global problem of acute diarrhoeal disease : A review of active surveillance data
Failed retrieving data.Clinical features of types A and B food-borne botulism
Failed retrieving data.Enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli diarrhoea : Acquired immunity and transmission in an endemic area
Failed retrieving data.Glucose vs sucrose in oral rehydration solutions for infants and young children with rotavirus-associated diarrhea
Failed retrieving data.INCIDENCE AND SEVERITY OF ROTAVIRUS AND ESCHERICHIA COLI DIARRHOEA IN RURAL BANGLADESH. Implications for Vaccine Development
Failed retrieving data.Oral rehydration therapy : Recent advances
Failed retrieving data.A two-year study of bacterial, viral, and parasitic agents associated with diarrhea in rural Bangladesh
Failed retrieving data.Detection of Escherichia coli enterotoxins in stools
Failed retrieving data.Diarrhoeal disease in Bangladesh epidemiology, mortality averted and costs at a rural treatment centre
Failed retrieving data.Disease due to enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli in Bangladeshi adults : Clinical aspects and a controlled trial of tetracycline
Failed retrieving data.Foodborne outbreak of shigellosis caused by an unusual Shigella strain
Failed retrieving data.Increase in antibiotic resistance among isolates of salmonella in the united states, 1967-1975
Failed retrieving data.MATERNAL CHOLERA IMMUNISATION AND SECRETORY IgA IN BREAST MILK
Failed retrieving data.Oral rehydration therapy for treatment of rotavirus diarrhea in a rural treatment center in Bangladesh
Failed retrieving data.USE OF ANTISERA FOR IDENTIFICATION OF ENTEROTOXIGENIC ESCHERICHIA COLI
Failed retrieving data.Village-based distribution of oral rehydration therapy packets in Bangladesh
Failed retrieving data.Comparison of four plating media for isolating Vibrio cholerae
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