Keiji Fukuda

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Dr. Keiji Fukuda‏‎ is director and a clinical professor at The University of Hong Kong School of Public Health. He previously worked for the CDC and the WHO.

Early life and education[edit | edit source]

Dr. Fukuda earned a BA from Oberlin College,[1] where he studied biology,[2] his MD from the University of Vermont,[1] and an MPH from the University of California, Berkeley.[1] He is board-certified in internal medicine.[2]

Career[edit | edit source]

Dr. Fukuda's early career focused on chronic fatigue syndrome,[1] establishing the Fukuda criteria.

Dr. Fukuda also served as medical epidemiologist in the Viral Exanthems and Herpesvirus Branch of the U.S. National Center for Infectious Diseases[2] and as Chief of Epidemiology in the Influenza Branch of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Centers (CDC).[1] From 2005 to 2016, he worked for the World Health Organization (WHO), serving as Scientist, Coordinator and then Director of the Global Influenza Programme (2005-2008), Assistant Director-General for Health Security and Environment ad interim (2008-2009), Special Adviser on Pandemic Influenza to the Director-General (2009-2010), Assistant Director-General for Health Security (2010-2015) and Special Representative for Antimicrobial Resistance for the Director-General (2015-2016).[1]

Dr. Fukuda currently serves as director and a clinical professor at The University of Hong Kong School of Public Health.[1]

References[edit | edit source]

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 1.6 "Fukuda, Keiji". sph.hku.hk. Retrieved January 11, 2019.
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 "Keiji Fukuda, M.D., Ph.D. : Health and Medicine Division". nationalacademies.org. Retrieved January 11, 2019.

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) - The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is a U.S. government agency dedicated to epidemiology and public health. It operates under the auspices of the Department of Health and Human Services.

World Health Organization (WHO) - "A specialized agency of the United Nations that is concerned with public health. It was established on 7 April 1948, and is headquartered in Geneva, Switzerland. The WHO is a member of the United Nations Development Group. Its predecessor, the Health Organization, was an agency of the League of Nations." The International Statistical Classification of Diseases and Related Health Problems (ICD) is maintained by WHO.

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