Grand Rounds: Dr. Joel Breman
Date and time
Location
13-105A CHS
650 Charles E Young Dr S Los Angeles, CA 90024Description
Grand Rounds:
Dr. Joel Breman
Senior Scientist Emeritus
Fogarty International Center,
U.S. National Institutes of Health
"Ebola genesis: Identification of the virus and description of the first epidemic in the Democratic Republic of Congo (Zaire): Current implications"
A light lunch will be served.
Joel G. Breman, M.D., D.T.P.H., F.I.D.S.A., is Senior Scientist Emeritus, Fogarty International Center of the U.S. National Institutes of Health. Dr. Breman's recent research has defined the considerable burden of malaria and development of policies and practices to conquer this disease. Dr. Breman was the CDC/USAID Chief of Party in Guinea for the West and Central African Smallpox Eradication-Measles Control Program. In Burkina Faso, at the Organization for Coordination and Cooperation in the Control of the Major Endemic Diseases (OCCGE), he was Chief of the Epidemiology Section doing research on vaccine preventable diseases, monkeypox, malaria, and strengthening infectious diseases surveillance systems in eight West African francophone countries. At the World Health Organization, Geneva, Dr. Breman was responsible for coordinating certification of smallpox eradication, orthopoxvirus research, and increase in security and decrease in number of laboratories retaining variola (smallpox) virus. In 1976, in the Democratic Republic of Congo (formerly Zaire), Dr. Breman investigated the first outbreak of Ebola hemorrhagic fever as part of an International Commission for which he received the Order of the Leopard, the highest award given by the Democratic Republic of the Congo to non-citizens. Following the confirmation of smallpox eradication in 1980, Dr. Breman returned to the CDC where he began working full time on the epidemiology and control of malaria. Dr. Breman joined the Fogarty International Center in 1995 and has been director of the International Training and Research Program in Emerging Infectious Diseases and other institutional strengthening, research training programs in low-income countries.