Dr. Edward Dodge

Moving from his Salamanca, NY, birthplace to the south-central African country of Angola as a baby, Dr. Edward Dodge has a life-long appreciation and deep knowledge of public health issues facing Africa. Having lived and traveled extensively throughout the continent he will share his thoughts on those issues in a talk, “Perspectives of Africa, 1936-2007,” on November 15, at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. Dr. Dodge received his medical degree in 1962 from the Indiana University School of Medicine and, in 1967, an MPH degree from Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. He served in the U.S. Public Health Service from 1964-1966 and as assistant professor of public health at Haile Selassie University's Public Health College in Gondar, Ethiopia, from 1967-1969. In 1971, he was named director of the Citrus-Levy County Health Units of the Florida Division of Health before becoming a family physician in Inverness, Florida, in 1975. He retired from private practice in 1996. Since 1994, Dr. Dodge has served as courtesy clinical associate professor, Department of Community and Family Medicine, at the University of Florida.