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| Affiliation | Nonpartisan |
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| Name | William H. Foege |
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, Washington , United States |
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March 12, 1936
(88 years)
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| Contributor | RBH |
| Last Modifed | Juan Croniqueur
Oct 01, 2022 10:42pm |
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| Info | William Herbert Foege M.D., M.P.H. (born 1936 in Decorah, Iowa) is an American epidemiologist who is credited with "devising the global strategy that led to the eradication of smallpox in the late 1970s".
Foege also "played a central role" in efforts that greatly increased immunization rates in developing countries in the 1980s.
His book, House on Fire: The Fight to Eradicate Smallpox was published in June 2011.
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