PERSON: David Morens

Senior Advisor

David M. Morens is Senior Advisor to the Director, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious diseases, National Institutes of Health. He received the A.B. degree (Psychology) in 1969 and the M.D. degree in 1973, both from the University of Michigan. He is Board Certified in pediatrics (1978) and Preventive Medicine (1980), with fellowship training in pediatric infectious diseases and additional training in virology, and is afellow of the Infectious Disease Society of America and The American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene.

In 1998 Dr. Morens joined the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, where he remains on active duty in the United States Public Health Service. He continues to serve as the Senior Advisor to the Director, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, and is also involved in Institute activities such as work in the Viral Pathogenesis and Evolution
Laboratory, vaccine-associated disease, NIH history and the histories of Infectious diseases such as influenza and measles, and studies of Hantavirus pulmonary syndrome, mechanisms of viral disease host swit Health of women astronauts. Dr. Morens is past President of the American Epidemiological Society and Past Chairman of the American Committee on Arthropod-Borne and Zoonotic Viruses. Awards include the PHS Meritorious Service and Outstanding Service Medals and many other PHS and US Army awards, as
Well as the Secretary of DHHS Distinguished Service Award. He has authored hundreds of scientific articles in major biomedical journals. His career interest for over 45 years has remained the study of emerging infectious diseases, and for decades has been studying viral disease pathogenesis, and the history of medicine and public health.

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