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Jon Kim Andrus, M.D. A medical epidemiologist, Dr. Andrus has spent 25 years working in the fields of primary care, vaccines, and immunization in developing countries. Now a full-time SPHHS faculty member, he continues to serve as Lead Technical Advisor for the Comprehensive Family Immunization Project of the Pan American Health Organization. At PAHO, he provides technical oversight for vaccine and immunization-related policy development, serves as editor of the Immunization Newsletter, and is a member of its Task Force on Epidemic Alert and Response. Dr. Andrus developed an early interest in global health as a Peace Corps volunteer in Malawi, Africa, where he served as the only physician in a district of 210,000 people. In subsequent years, his professional focus on polio eradication and other immunization-related projects has taken him around the world - including India, Southeast Asia, Nigeria, Zimbabwe, and South and Central America. Among his prior positions, Dr. Andrus has been a medical epidemiologist in the CDC's Global Immunization Division and head of the Vaccinology and Immunization Program at the Institute for Global Health at the University of California, San Francisco and Berkeley. Before joining the School as full-time faculty, Dr. Andrus was an adjunct at the Department of Global Health, and continues to hold adjunct faculty positions at the University of California, San Francisco School of Medicine and the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. In 2000, he received the Distinguished Service Medal, the highest award of the United States Public Health Service, for his leadership in working to eradicate polio in Southeast Asia. He was also awarded the Emil M. Mrak International Award of the University California, Davis, Cal Aggie Alumni Association. |
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