Meet William H. Foege

William H. Foege
William H. Foege is the emeritus presidential distinguished professor of international health at Emory University. He was a director of the Centers for Disease Control, the founding director of the Carter Presidential Center, and a cofounder of the Task Force for Child Survival (now the Task Force for Global Health). He was also an early consultant to the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. He is the author of House on Fire: The Fight to Eradicate Smallpox; The Fears of the Rich, the Needs of the Poor: My Years at the CDC; The Task Force for Child Survival: Secrets of Successful Coalitions; and a coauthor of Change Is Possible: Reflections on the History of Global Health. In 2012, he was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom.

Published Works

Change Is Possible
Reflections on the History of Global Health

William H. Foege, Paul Elish, Alison T. Hoover, Madison Gabriella Lee, Deborah Chen Tseng, and Kiera Chan

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The Task Force for Child Survival
Secrets of Successful Coalitions

William H. Foege
foreword by President Jimmy Carter

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The Fears of the Rich, The Needs of the Poor
My Years at the CDC

William H. Foege

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The Primeval Forest

Albert Schweitzer
with a new foreword by William H. Foege, M.D.

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