PHR Board of Directors
Dr. Ronald Waldman
Dr. Waldman began his career with the World Health Organization's successful Global Smallpox Eradication Program. After receiving a Master of Public Health degree from the Johns Hopkins University School of Hygiene
and Public Health he joined the Epidemic Intelligence Service of the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and worked at CDC for more than twenty years. During that time he and colleagues contributed to the development of the epidemiology of refugee health and provided assistance to numerous international humanitarian emergencies. In addition, he served as Director of the Technical Support Division of CDC's International Health Program Office.
On assignment from the CDC, Dr. Waldman was coordinator of WHO's Task Force on Cholera Control from 1992-94, Technical Director of USAID's BASICS Project, a large, world-wide effort to reduce infant and child mortality, from 1994-1998, and the founding director of the Program on Forced Migration and Health at Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health.
Dr. Waldman is currently working to assist developing countries prepare to deliver humanitarian assistance in the event of a pandemic or other global disasters.
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