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Infectious Disease

Authors & Experts

Published, as of March 2007

Takashi Suzuki 66 33995
Department of Biochemistry,
Department of Radiobiochemistry,
University of Shizuoka,
School of Pharmaceutical Science,
52-1 Yada, Shizuoka-shi 422, Japan

Yi Li 56 32905
Centre de microbiologie et biotechnologie,
INRS-Institut Armand-Frappier,
Université du Québec,
531 boul. des Prairies, Laval,
Québec H7V 1B7, Canada

Sanjay Kumar 118 30011
Bacterial and Parasitic Diseases Section,
Division of Emerging and Transfusion Transmitted Diseases,
Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research,
Food and Drug Administration, HFM-313,
1401 Rockville Pike,
Rockville, MD 20852-1448

Jun Li 68 29576
Laboratory of Parasitic Diseases,
National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases,
National Institutes of Health,
Bethesda, MD 20892-0425

Jeffrey I. Cohen 62 26976
Medical Virology Section,
Laboratory of Clinical Infectious Diseases,
National Institutes of Health,
Bethesda, MD 20982-1888

Arvind Kumar 90 23593
Departments of Gastroenterology,
Sanjay Gandhi Postgraduate Institute of Medical Sciences,
Lucknow 226 014 India

Yasuo Suzuki 61 21478
CREST,
Japan Science and Technology Agency,
Saitama, 332-0012, Japan

Seth Kalichman 91 18522
Department of Psychology,
University of Connecticut,
406 Babbidge Road,
Storrs, CT 06269

Jean H. Kim 53 16962
Chinese University of Hong Kong,
Hong Kong Special
Administrative Region,
People’s Republic of China

Gupta S 73 15107
Division of Infectious Diseases,
Indiana University
School of Medicine,
Wishard Hospital,
Indianapolis, IN 46202

Sharma Sk 131 11240
Department of Medicine,
All India Institute of Medical Sciences,
New Delhi, India

Kuo-Hsiung Lee 54 8921
Division of Medicinal Chemistry,
School of Pharmacy,
University of North Carolina,
Chapel Hill, North Carolina 27599

Yoshifumi Takeda 50 7943
Faculty of Human Life Sciences,
Jissen Women's University,
Hino, Tokyo 191-8510, Japan

Peter Andersen 98 5559
Statens Serum Institute,
Copenhagen, Denmark

Nirmal Kumar Ganguly 57 3881
Department of Gastroenterology,
G B Pant Hospital,
New Delhi 110 002 India

Stefan H. E. Kaufmann 98 3705
Max Planck Institute for Infection Biology,
Department of Immunology,
Schumannstr, 21-22,
10117 Berlin, Germany

Stewart T. Cole 68 3643
Génétique Moléculaire Bactérienne and
Biochimie Structurale Units,
Institut Pasteur,
Paris 75724 Cedex 15, France

Robert K. Heaton 20 3600
HIV Neurobehavioral Research Center,
University of California San Diego,
La Jolla, CA

Reto Brun 71 3445
Swiss Tropical Institute,
CH-4002 Basel, Switzerland

Jeffrey A. Kelly 67 3015
Center for AIDS Intervention Research,
Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Medicine,
Medical College of Wisconsin,
Milwaukee, Wisconsin

Nicholas J. White 213 2996
Faculty of Tropical Medicine,
Mahidol University,
420/6 Rajvithi Rd.,
Bangkok 10400, Thailand

Richard E. Chaisson 63 2824
Johns Hopkins University,
Baltimore, MD

Sujit K. Bhattacharya 89 2289
Rajendra Memorial Research Institute
of Medical Sciences,
Agamkuan, India

John D. Clemens 56 2263
Retired (P.C.); Department of Pediatrics,
University of Illinois College of Medicine at Peoria,
Peoria, IL

Mendel E. Singer 26 2228
Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics,
Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine,
WG-57, 10900 Euclid Avenue,
Cleveland, OH 44106

Paul D. Cleary 16 2147
Dean of Public Health,
Chair, Epidemiology and Public Health
Yale School of Public Health
60 College Street
P.O. Box 208034
New Haven, CT 06520.8034

J. A. Catania 50 2118
Center for AIDS Prevention Studies,
University of California, San Francisco,
74 New Montgomery, Suite 600,
San Francisco, CA 94105

Ron D. Hays 23 2095
UCLA AIDS Institute Center for AIDS Research,
Los Angeles, CA

Chris Dye 49 2002
Communicable Diseases,
World Health Organization,
1211 Geneva 27, Switzerland

Yo Hoshino 52 1993
Department of Pediatrics,
Nagoya University Graduate School of Medicine,
Nagoya, Japan

Robert G. Webster 62 1977
Division of Virology,
Department of Infectious Diseases,
St. Jude Children's Research Hospital,
Memphis, Tennessee

Don C. Des Jarlais 44 1962
Edmond de Rothschild Foundation Chemical Dependency Institute,
Beth Israel Medical Center,
New York, NY

Adrian V S Hill 113 1957
Nuffield Department of Medicine,
University of Oxford,
John Radcliffe Hospital,
Oxford, OX3 9DU, UK

David Vlahov 132 1923
New York Academy of Medicine,
Center for Urban Epidemiological Studies,
New York, NY

Louis H. Miller 55 1858
Laboratory of Malaria and Vector Research,
National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases,
National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 20892

Rex Forehand 18 1857
Department of Psychology,
University of Vermont, VT

Robert W. Snow 113 1856
Kenya Medical Research Institute–
Wellcome Trust Collaborative Program,
00100 GPO, PO Box 43640,
Nairobi, Kenya

Jan Holmgren 60 1745
Department of Medical Microbiology & Immunology and
Göteborg University Vaccine Research Institute (GUVAX),
Göteborg University,
SE-405 30 Göteborg, Sweden

Peter M. Small 51 1698
Division of Infectious Diseases and Geographic Medicine,
Stanford University Medical Center,
Stanford, CA 94305

Ian M. Orme 85 1684
Colorado State University,
Fort Collins, CO 80523

D. B. Young 53 1661
MRC Tuberculosis and Related Infections Unit
London W12 OHS, UK

Julio S. G. Montaner 78 1567
St. Paul's Hospital/
University of British Columbia,
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Mary K. Estes 52 1501
Department of Molecular Virology and Microbiology,
Baylor College of Medicine,
Houston, TX

Ralph J. Diclemente 25 1500
Departments of Behavioral Sciences and Health Education,
Emory University,
Atlanta, GA

Roger I. Glass 91 1498
National Center for Infectious Diseases,
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention,
Atlanta, GA

Patrick J. Brennan 90 1416
Mycobacterial Research Laboratories,
Department of Microbiology, Immunology, and Pathology,
Colorado State University,
Fort Collins, CO

Mary Jane Rotheram-Borus 65 1394
Center for Community Health,
University of California,
Los Angeles, CA

Stephen L. Hoffman 79 1378
Sanaria Inc.,
12115 Parklawn Drive Suite L,
Rockville, MD 20852

David A. Cooper 50 1366
National Centre in HIV Epidemiology and Clinical Research,
University of New South Wales,
Sydney, Australia

Jerry R. Mcghee 50 1365
University of Alabama at Birmingham,
Birmingham, Alabama

C. H. Lu 50 1316
Department of Neurology,
Chang Gung Memorial Hospital,
123, Ta Pei Road,
Niao Sung Hsiang,
Kaohsiung Hsien, Taiwan

Thomas J. Coates 43 1298
Center for AIDS Prevention Studies,
University of California,
San Francisco, CA

Margaret A. Chesney 26 1287
University of California San Francisco,
Center for AIDS Prevention Studies,
74 New Montgomery St., Suite 600,
San Francisco, CA 94105

Anthony D. Harries 96 1286
National Tuberculosis Control Programme,
Ministry of Health and Population,
Lilongwe, Malawi

Vincent Soriano 84 1235
Director, Dept. of Infectious Diseases
Hospital Carlos III,
Madrid, Spain

James A. Inciardi 21 1230
Center for Drug and Alcohol Studies,
University of Delaware,
Coral Gables, Florida

Tomas Jelinek 55 1200
Institute of Tropical Medicine,
Humboldt University,
Berlin, Germany

Kevin Marsh 119 1172
Kenya Medical Research Institute/
Wellcome Trust Programme,
Centre for Geographic Medicine Research,
Coast, Kilifi District Hospital,
Kilifi, Kenya

Allan Saul 60 1168
Malaria Vaccine Development Unit,
NIAID, National Institutes of Health, Twinbrook I,
5640 Fisher Lane,
Rockville, MD 20853

Anamika Nath 62 1061
Division of Infectious Diseases,
School of Medicine, Scaife Hall,
University of Pittsburgh,
3550 Terrace Street,
Pittsburgh, PA 15261

Marcel Tanner 135 1056
Swiss Tropical Institute,
PO Box, CH-4002
Basel, Switzerland

Michael W. Ross 32 1015
Center for Health Promotion and Prevention Research,
School of Public Health,
University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston,
Houston, Texas

Gerry V. Stimson 16 997
Centre for Research on Drugs and Health Behaviour,
Imperial College London,
London, England

Roy M. Anderson 18 990
Department of Infectious Disease Epidemiology,
Faculty of Medicine,
Imperial College London,
St Mary's Campus, Norfolk Place,
London W2 1PG, UK

Kenrad E. Nelson 18 988
Department of Epidemiology,
Johns Hopkins University
Bloomberg School of Public Health,
Baltimore, MD

Ron Stall 22 984
Prevention Research Branch,
Division of HIV/AIDS Prevention,
National Center for HIV, STD, TB Prevention,
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention,
Atlanta, 30333, GA

Nalin Rastogi 62 969
Institut Pasteur de Guadeloupe,
Pointe-à-Pitre, Guadeloupe

François Nosten 84 966
Faculty of Tropical Medicine,
Mahidol University,
Bangkok, Thailand

Dick Menzies 53 950
Respiratory Division
McGill University Health Centre, and McGill University
Montréal, Quebec, Canada

Samuel R. Friedman 48 934
National Development and Research Institutes,
New York, New York

Judith A. Stein 23 921
Vaccine Research Center,
National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases,
National Institutes of Health,
40 Convent Drive,
Bethesda, Maryland 20892-3017

D. A. Enarson 60 916
Scientific Activities Unit,
International Union Against Tuberculosis and Lung Disease,
Paris, France

Alan F. Cowman 83 910
Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research,
Parkville VIC 3050, Australia

Stephen A. Ward 50 903
Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine,
Liverpool, United Kingdom

Robert Colebunders 49 902
Institute of Tropical Medicine,
Antwerp, Belgium

William R. Jacobs, Jr. 77 901
Howard Hughes Medical Institute,
Albert Einstein College of Medicine,
Bronx, New York 10461

Tom H. M. Ottenhoff 59 898
Department of Immunohematology and Blood Transfusion,
Leiden University Medical Center,
Leiden, The Netherlands

Sanjeev Krishna 70 868
Department of Infectious Diseases,
St. George's Hospital Medical School,
London SW17, United Kingdom

Michael P. Carey 23 860
Department of Psychology and Center for Health and Behavior,
Syracuse University,
Syracuse, New York

Anthony A. Holder 51 860
Division of Parasitology,
National Institute for Medical Research,
Mill Hill, London, UK

G. J. Huba 16 849
The Measurement Group,
5811A Uplander Way,
Culver City, CA 90230

Christine Katlama 54 838
Department of Virology-EA2387 and Infectious Diseases,
Pitié-Salpêtrière Hospital,
Paris, France

Simon L. Croft 56 820
Department of Infectious and Tropical Diseases,
London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine,
London, United Kingdom

Shyam Sundar 75 818
Kala-azar Medical Research Centre,
Muzaffarpur, India

Robert B. Tesh 50 787
University of Texas Medical Branch,
Galveston, Texas

Steven R. Meshnick 50 771
Department of Epidemiology,
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill,
Chapel Hill, NC

Hans W. Pfister 58 766
Department of Neurology,
Max von Pettenkofer Institute,
Ludwig-Maximilian-University,
Munich, Germany

Eleanor M. Riley 50 765
Department of Infectious and Tropical Diseases,
London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine,
London, United Kingdom

Kevin C. Kain 70 724
University of Toronto,
Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Roberto Manfredi 63 720
Department of Clinical and Experimental Medicine,
Division of Infectious Diseases,
University of Bologna Alma Mater Studiorum ,
S. Orsola Hospital,
Bologna, Italy

David D. Celentano 49 713
Department of Epidemiology,
Johns Hopkins University,
Bloomberg School of Public Health,
Baltimore, MD

Anders Björkman 51 708
Malaria Research Laboratory,
Unit of Infectious Diseases,
Department of Medicine,
Karolinska University Hospital,
Karolinska Institute,
Stockholm, Sweden

Philip J. Rosenthal 91 704
Department of Medicine,
San Francisco General Hospital,
University of California,
San Francisco, CA

Anke A. Ehrhardt 17 683
HIV Center for Clinical and Behavioral Studies,
New York State Psychiatric Institute and Columbia University,
New York, NY

Ronald O. Valdiserri 19 683
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention,
600 Clifton Road (E07),
Atlanta, GA

David A. Sack 86 680
Vaccine Testing Unit,
The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health,
Baltimore, MD

François Dabis 76 677
NSERM U593,
Université Victor Ségalen,
146 rue Léo Saignat,
33076 Bordeaux, France

Peter A Selwyn 22 673
Department of Family and Social Medicine,
Montefiore Medical Center,
Albert Einstein College of Medicine,
Bronx, NY 10467

W. Henry Boom 49 653
Department of Medicine,
Division of Infectious Diseases,
Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine and University Hospitals of Cleveland, Cleveland, Ohio

• Note that this is the sum of articles indexed in the Social SciSearch and SciSearch databases, not a universal count of all the author’s writings.

Serious Games

Centers of Excellence

EIN Starting Points/Rank

Centers for Disease Control – Emerging Infectious Diseases
U. S. CDC Site - Tracking trends and analyzing new and reemerging infectious disease issues around the world. 1

World Health Organization – Infectious Diseases
Provides links to descriptions of activities, reports, news and events, as well as contacts and cooperating partners in the various WHO programmes and offices working on this topic. Also shown are links to related web sites and topics. 2

International Society for Infectious Diseases
Goals of ISID are to increase the knowledge base of infectious diseases through research and enhance the professional development of individuals in this discipline; extend and transfer technical expertise in infectious diseases and microbiology; and create and foster partnerships for the control and cost-effective management of infectious diseases around the world. 3

AIDS Education Global Information System (AEGiS)
The AEGiS mission is to facilitate access to current patient/clinician information, specific to HIV/AIDS via state-of-the-art technology and to preserve for future generations a global history of the pandemic with our historical news and treatment database. Claims to be the largest free-access virtual AIDS library on earth. 4

Globalhealthfacts.org
A project of the Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation, provides free, up-to-date and easy-to-access data by country on HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis, malaria and other key health and socio-economic indicators. The data are displayed in tables, charts, and color-coded maps and can be downloaded for custom analyses. 5

Global Fund to Fight Aids, Tuberculosis and Malaria
Created to finance a dramatic turn-around in the fight against AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria. These diseases kill over 6 million people each year, and the numbers are growing. Operates as a financial instrument, not an implementing authority. Site in several languages. 6

TDR- The Special Programme for Research and Training in Tropical Diseases
An independent global program of scientific collaboration, co-sponsored by UNICEF, UNDP, World Bank and WHO, it aims to help coordinate, support and influence global efforts to combat a portfolio of major diseases of the poor and disadvantaged. TDR focuses on neglected infectious diseases that disproportionally affect poor and marginalized populations. 7

Hong Kong Society for Infectious Diseases
Goals of HKID are to promote the advancement of the study of infectious diseases and to keep the medical profession and the public well informed of the latest developments in the battle against infectious agents. 8

GAVI
The Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunizations – Mission is to save children's lives and protect people's health through the widespread use of vaccines. Site includes info on impact of GAVI, country proposals and country monitoring reports. Reports in several languages. 9

Global Emerging Infections Surveillance & Response System
Established in 1996 as expanded mission of the U.S. DoD, to include support of global surveillance, training, research, and response to emerging infectious disease threats through: centralized coordination; improved preventive health programs and epidemiological capabilities; and enhanced involvement with military treatment facilities and U.S. and overseas laboratories. 10

Center for Complex Infectious Diseases
The primary mission of CCID is to determine the nature, origin, disease associations, modes of transmission, methods of diagnosis and responses to therapy of complex infectious diseases, and to disseminate such information. CCID is currently specializing in the detection and characterization of viruses which have undergone a "stealth" adaptation to avoid elimination by the immune system. 11

AIDS Vaccine Advocacy Coalition
AVAC is a community and consumer based organization, founded to accelerate the ethical development and global delivery of vaccines against HIV/AIDS. Provides independent analysis, policy advocacy, public education and mobilization to enhance AIDS vaccine research and development. 12

Stop TB Partnership
Goal is to eliminae TB as a public health problem and, ultimately, to obtain a world free of TB. Comprises a network of international organizations, countries, donors from the public and private sectors, governmental and nongovernmental organizations and individuals that have expressed an interest in working together to achieve this goal. 13

Prevention of Avian Influenza
Hong Kong-based site providing information on Avian Influenza H5N1 aka “Bird Flu”. Includes What’s News, hotline, related links. In English and Chinese. 14

LEPRA.org.uk
LEPRA is a medical development charity with a mission to restore health, hope and dignity to people affected by leprosy and other diseases of poverty. We currently work in 10 of the world's most deprived countries covering a population of approximately 300 million. 15

Countries of Concern

Government Programs

Non-Government Programs

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References

Amazon Books on Infectious Disease

Wikipedia Page on Infectious Disease