May 6, 1998
CONTACT: Shirley Hulett (619) 594-5204
Dr. Kenneth J. Bart, Infectious Disease Expert Named to Head SDSU’s Graduate School of Public Health
Dr. Kenneth J. Bart, M.D., has been appointed director of San Diego State University’s Graduate School of Public Health.
Prior to joining SDSU, he was associate director of the Office of International and Refugee Health of the Office of the United States Secretary of Health and Human Services. He has been involved in public health programs at the local, state, federal and international levels since 1967.
He has domestic and international health sector work experience with infectious disease surveillance and control, immunizations, the epidemiology of acute and chronic disease, vaccine research and development, and the development of national policy on international health issues, and vaccines and immunization-related activities.
He has worked with various programs at the National Centers of Disease Control and Prevention, has served as director of the National Vaccine Program and as agency director for health of the Agency for International Development.
Dr. Bart has worked for the global eradication of poliomyelitis since the World Health Assembly resolved to eradicate it in 1988. He is currently vice chairman of the Western Pacific Region Technical Advisory Committee of the World Health Organization on the Eradication of Poliomyelitis. He has worked extensively with the Department of Health in Taipei, consulting on the eradication of poliomyelitis and the control of other vaccine-preventable diseases from Taiwan since 1990. Dr. Bart spent eight years living and working in East Pakistan (now Bangladesh) and Nepal.
Dr. Bart did his pediatric training at Yale-New Haven Hospital, and his public health training at the Harvard School of Public Health. He has published more than 100 peer-reviewed articles and has contributed to standard textbooks of pediatric and public health.
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