D.A. HENDERSON is dean emeritus of the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and founded the Johns Hopkins Center for Civilian Biodefense Strategies. He is now resident scholar at the Center for Biosecurity of the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, located in Baltimore. He was the director of public health emergency preparedness and principal science advisor to Secretary of Health and Human Services Tommy G. Thompson. Dr. Henderson served as associate director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (1990 to 1993); as dean of the Johns Hopkins School of Public Health (1977 to 1990); and as director of the World Health Organization’s successful 10-year campaign to eradicate smallpox (1966 to 1977). In 2002, President George W. Bush conferred upon him the nation’s highest civilian honor, the Presidential Medal of Freedom. In 1986, President Ronald Reagan awarded him the National Medal of Science, and in 1978 he was inducted into the Institute of Medicine. Dr. Henderson has a doctor of medicine degree from the University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry, a master of public health degree from the Johns Hopkins School of Hygiene and Public Health, and a doctor of humane letters degree from Johns Hopkins University.
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