Donald Burke

Donald S. Burke is an expert on the prevention, diagnosis, and control of infectious diseases of global concern. He is a distinguished University Professor of Health Science and Policy at the University of Pittsburgh.

This article is about the American infectious diseases researcher. For other uses, see Don Burke (disambiguation).
Donald Burke
Born
Donald S. Burke
NationalityAmerican
Alma materHarvard Medical School
Case Western Reserve University
Scientific career
FieldsMicrobiology
InstitutionsUniversity of Pittsburgh

Education

Career

Burke is a Distinguished University Professor[1] of Health Science and Policy at the University of Pittsburgh, and dean emeritus of the Graduate School of Public Health. Burke was the longest serving dean in the history of the school (2006-19). He is also the former associate vice chancellor for global health and director of the Center for Vaccine Research.[2]

Burke is one of the world's foremost experts on the prevention, diagnosis, and control of emerging infectious diseases and infectious diseases of global concern, especially HIV/AIDS, Hepatitis A, and avian influenza. His research has spanned a wide range of scientific activities, including development of new diagnostics, field studies, clinical vaccine trials, computational modelling of epidemic control strategies, and health policy analysis.[3]

Before coming to Pittsburgh, Burke was Professor of International Health and Professor of Epidemiology at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, and Professor of Medicine at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine. He was previously involved in infectious diseases research for several U.S. government agencies, retiring from the U.S. Army Medical Corps as a Colonel after 23 years of service. He has lectured widely on the history of microbiology and vaccines.[2]

Selected honors

Publications

Burke is author or coauthor of over 200 scholarly papers. Five of them have been cited more than 1,000 times in other papers, notably "Multifactorial index of cardiac risk in noncardiac surgical procedures", published in 1977 in the New England Journal of Medicine, and cited over 2,800 times since then.[4]

Together with a number of other persons, in 2016 he proposed a World Serum Bank as a means of helping combat epidemics.[5]

References
  1. "Policy and Procedure Governing Appointments to Distinguished Professorships". University of Pittsburgh Faculty Handbook. University of Pittsburgh. 2013-02-05. Archived from the original on 2007-09-05. Retrieved 2017-03-16.
  2. "Graduate School of Public Health - Donald S. Burke". Public Health website. University of Pittsburgh. Retrieved 2017-03-17.
  3. "Burke Named Distinguished University Professor..." PittChronicle. University of Pittsburgh. 2011-06-20. Retrieved 2017-03-17.
  4. "Don Burke - Google Scholar". Google Scholar. Google Scholar. 2017-03-17. Retrieved 2017-03-17.
  5. Metcalf, C Jessica E.; Farrar, Jeremy; Cutts, Felicity T.; Basta, Nicole E.; Graham, Andrea L.; Lessler, Justin; Ferguson, Neil M.; Burke, Donald S.; Grenfell, Bryan T. (2016). "Use of serological surveys to generate key insights into the changing global landscape of infectious disease". The Lancet. 388 (10045): 728–730. doi:10.1016/S0140-6736(16)30164-7. PMC 5678936. PMID 27059886.
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