Control of Communicable Diseases: Clinical Practice (Control of Communicable Diseases Manual) - Softcover

Omar Khan

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0875533078 ISBN 13: 9780875533070

Publisher: American Public Health Association, 2020

Synopsis

Clinical Practice is a new complement to the Control of Communicable Diseases Manual, published by APHA Press for over 100 years and one of the most authoritative sources for infectious disease information. Clinical Practice is an essential reference for physicians and other health care practitioners, especially those working in global health infectious disease, epidemiology, travel medicine, and tropical medicine.

This book addresses the needs of the busy or travelling clinician. It covers diagnosis and treatment of communicable diseases, while also providing an overview of epidemiology and prevention. The book balances depth with brevity, and packs a great deal of authoritative knowledge from worldwide public health and health care experts.

This is a must-have for the pockets, duffle bags, and bookshelves of all health care practitioners and global health professionals.

About this title

About the Author

Dr Omar A. Khan, MD is president and CEO of Delaware Health Sciences Alliance, an organization that includes the major health systems and research universities in the Delaware Valley. He also holds a master’s degree from the Johns Hopkins University’s Bloomberg School of Public Health, and has co-authored several books on global health and infectious disease, including The End of Polio with Tim Brookes, a Vermont resident and frequent contributor to VPR and other national publications.

Dr David L. Heymann, MD is the Assistant Director-General for Health Security and Environment and Representative of the Director-General for Polio Eradication. Prior to this, from July 1998 until July 2003, Dr Heymann was Executive Director of the WHO Communicable Diseases Cluster. From October 1995 to July 1998, Dr Heymann was Director of the WHO Programme on Emerging and other Communicable Diseases, and prior to that he was the chief of research activities in the WHO Global Programme on AIDS. Before joining WHO, Dr Heymann worked for 13 years as a medical epidemiologist in sub-Saharan Africa on assignment from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Dr Heymann also worked for two years in India as a medical epidemiologist in the WHO Smallpox Eradication Programme.

Dr Heymann holds a B.A. from the Pennsylvania State University, an M.D. from Wake Forest University, a Diploma in Tropical Medicine and Hygiene from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, and has completed practical epidemiology training in the two-year Epidemic Intelligence Service of CDC. In 2004 he received the American Public Health Association Award for Excellence and was named to the United States Institute of Medicine. In 2005 he was awarded a Welling Professorship at the George Washington University School of Public Health and the 2005 Donald Mackay medal by the American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene. In 2007 he received the Heinz Award in the Human Condition category.

Edition details

• Publisher: American Public Health Association
• Publication date: 2020
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0875533078
• ISBN 13: 9780875533070
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 700
• Editor: Omar Khan, David L. Heymann