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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Disease Caused by a Marine Vibrio : Clinical Characteristics and Epidemiology
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Failed retrieving data.Use of colony pools for diagnosis of enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli diarrhea
Failed retrieving data.Fecal steroids in diarrhea. II. Travellers' diarrhea
Failed retrieving data.ORAL HYDRATION IN ROTAVIRUS DIARRHŒA : A DOUBLE BLIND COMPARISON OF SUCROSE WITH GLUCOSE ELECTROLYTE SOLUTION
Failed retrieving data.A large outbreak of foodborne salmonellosis on the Navajo Nation Indian Reservation, epidemiology and secondary transmission
Failed retrieving data.An evaluation of penicillin prophylaxis during an outbreak of foodborne streptococcal pharyngitis
Failed retrieving data.An Infected Wound as a Cause of Botulism in a 12-Year-Old Boy : Debridement, Medical Management, and Intensive Respiratory Support Resulted in Complete Recovery
Failed retrieving data.Cholera on Guam, 1974 : Epidemiologic findings and isolation of non-toxinogenic strains
Failed retrieving data.Ciguatera in Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands
Failed retrieving data.Coproexamination for Botulinal Toxin and Clostridium botulinum : A New Procedure for Laboratory Diagnosis of Botulism
Failed retrieving data.Enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay for detection of Escherichia coli heat-labile enterotoxin
Failed retrieving data.Epidemiologic Assessment of the Relevance of the So-Called Enteropathogenic Serogroups of Escherichia coli in Diarrhea
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Failed retrieving data.Food borne botulism in the United States, 1970 to 1975
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Failed retrieving data.The Safety of Eating Shellfish
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Failed retrieving data.ENTEROTOXIGENIC ESCHERICHIA COLI AND REOVIRUS-LIKE AGENT IN RURAL BANGLADESH
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Failed retrieving data.Laboratory investigation of diarrhea in travelers to Mexico : Evaluation of methods for detecting enterotoxigenic Echerichia coli
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