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Ronald Waldman, M.D., MPH
Professor of Clinical Population & Family Health and Director of the Program on Forced Migration and Health
EXPERTISE: Public health in complex emergencies; child health in developing countries; medical epidemiology; infectious and communicable diseases, including malaria and cholera.
AFFILIATIONS AND PAST POSITIONS: Chairman, WHO Advisory Group on Research in Emergencies; Chairman-Elect, International Health Section, American Public Health Association; Associate, International Health Unit, Macfarlane Burnet Centre for Medical Research, Australia; Board Member, Armed Forces Epidemiology Board; Member, Save the Children Committee on Impact Measurement of Children in Crisis Programs; Former Technical Director, BASICS.
Refer to Program on Forced Migration and Health
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS:
Waldman RW, Martone G. Public Health and Complex Emergencies: New Issues, New Conditions. American Journal of Public Health. In press.
Iacopino V, Waldman RJ. War and Health, from Solferino to Kosovo - The Evolving Role of Physicians. JAMA 282(5): 479-481, August 4, 1999.
Murray J, McFarland DA, Waldman RJ. Cost-effectiveness of oral cholera vaccine in a stable refugee population at risk for epidemic cholera and in a population with endemic cholera. Bulletin of the World Health Organization 76(4): 343-352, 1998.
Waldman RJ. Cholera vaccination in refugee settings. JAMA 279:552-553, 1998.
Toole MJ, Waldman RJ. The Public Health Aspects of Complex Emergencies and Refugee Situations. American Review of Public Health 18: 283-312, 1997.
Swerdlow DL, Malenga G, Begkoyian G, Nyangulu D, Toole M, Waldman RJ, Puhr ND, Tauxe RV. Epidemic cholera among refugees in Malawi, Africa: Treatment and Transmission. Epidemiol Infect 118: 207-214, 1997.
Waldman RJ, Bartlett AV, Campbell CC, Steketee RW. Overcoming Barriers: The Pathway to Survival. BASICS, Child Survival Series, 1996.
Healing TD, Drysdale SF, Black ME, Buyers M, Acheson ED, Waldman RJ, Hall SM, Bartlett CLR. Monitoring Health in the War-Affected Areas of the Former Yugoslavia, 1992-93. European Journal of Public Health 6(4): 245-251, 1996.
Goma Epidemiology Group. Public health impact of Rwandan refugee crisis: what happened in Goma, Zaire, in July, 1994? Lancet 345:339-44, February 11, 1995.
Toole MJ, Waldman RJ. Refugees and displaced persons. War, hunger, and public health. JAMA 270:600-5, August 4, 1993.
Toole MJ, Waldman RJ. Prevention of excess mortality in refugee and displaced populations in developing countries. JAMA 263:3296-302, 1990.
