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"Before joining WHO, Heymann worked for 13 years as a medical epidemiologist in sub-Saharan Africa on assignment from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). He also worked in India for two years as a medical epidemiologist in the WHO Smallpox Eradication Programme, where smallpox was eradicated in 1978. Heymann also took an active role in the first Ebola outbreak in 1976, and led the response team during the 1995 Kikwit outbreak. In 2003, Heymann was at the forefront of the SARS epidemic, working with his team to mediate international effort to halt the pandemic."
 
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He has spent much of his life tracking infectious diseases across the globe, participating in campaigns to stamp out old diseases from smallpox to poliomyelitis, investigating the emergence of new ones from Ebola and AIDS to SARS and battling long-time foes such as tuberculosis and malaria, as well as training epidemiologists in developing countries around the world. 
  
He joined the World Health Organization's Smallpox Eradication Programme in India as a medical epidemiologist in in 1974, overseeing the containment of the last cases of the disease. He was involved in investigating the first outbreak of Legionnaire’s disease before heading to Africa, where he spent 13 years on assignment from the CDC. He was a member of the international team that investigated the first outbreak of Ebola haemorrhagic fever in Democratic Republic of Congo (then referred to as Zaire) in 1976, the second outbreak of Ebola in in 1977 in Tandala, and in 1995, on secondment to the World Health Organization (WHO) from CDC, directed the international response to the Ebola outbreak in Kikwit. His studies on the virus over a five-year period from 1980 -1985 demonstrated that Ebola emerges periodically and that if patients are rapidly isolated, its emergence does not usually spark an outbreak, indicating that the virus crosses the species barrier more frequently than is detected. A 1997 PBS documentary “The Coming Plague” followed him as he hunted the reservoir of the Ebola virus in the forests of the Ivory Coast. 
While based in Cameroon (1977-1980) he studied yaws in pygmies and the epidemiology of human monkeypox in West and Central Africa, and as chief epidemiologist for Malawi (1983-1988) he developed the in-vivo methodology for determining prevalence of antimalarial resistance that has become one of the current international standards.
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David L Heymann (born 1946) is a London-based American infectious disease epidemiologist and public health expert known for leading the global response to the SARS (Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome) outbreak;Berglof, A, The US professor who helped to halt the global spread of Sars, Financial Times, 8 Nov. 2013. https://www.ft.com/content/448f4ed0-4254-11e3-8350-00144feabdc0,Fidler, DP (Ed.), SARS, Governance and the Globalization of Disease. 2004, New York, USA: Palgrave Macmillan. being among a cadre of ‘disease detectives’ dispatched around the world to fight emerging infectious diseases and shut down outbreaks;Garrett, L, Don’t kiss the cadaver, Foreign Policy, 30 March 2014.  
https://foreignpolicy.com/2014/03/30/dont-kiss-the-cadaver/
,Podolsky, M L, Cures out of Chaos, How unexpected discoveries led to breakthroughs in medicine and health (pp.92).  1997, Amsterdam, The Netherlands: Harwood Academic Publishers.
https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=X6vg_Rim0cwC&pg=PA92&lpg=PA92&dq=David+Heymann+disease+%22detective%22&source=bl&ots=FV2qd4qT24&sig=ACfU3U0r-MyYL-JLNSXw65CTR6L43T1dhQ&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjSyKfsiePnAhWMbsAKHd3kC1QQ6AEwBXoECAoQAQ#v=onepage&q=David%20Heymann%20disease%20%22detective%22&f=false
 and for championing and spearheading reforms to the global health security architecture.World Health Organization. The World Health Report 2007: A Safer Future: Global Public Health Security in the 21st Century. Geneva, Switzerland, 2007. https://www.who.int/whr/2007/en/,Heymann, DL, Chen, L, Takemi, K, Fidler, DP, Tappero, JW, Thomas, MJ, Kenyon, TA and Frieden, TR. ‘Global Health Security: The Wider Lessons from the West African Ebola Virus Disease Epidemic’. Lancet 385 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1016/S0140-6736(15)60909-6
He has spent much of his life tracking infectious diseases across the globe, participating in campaigns to stamp out old diseases from smallpox to poliomyelitis, investigating the emergence of new ones from AIDS to Ebola and battling long-time foes such as tuberculosis and malaria, as well as training epidemiologists in developing countries around the world.Ashraf, H. ‘Interview David Heymann — WHO ’s Public Health Guru’. Lancet Infectious Diseases, No 4, December 2004: 785–88. DOI:https://doi.org/10.1016/S1473-3099(04)01207-1 
After leading the successful global response to the SARS outbreak in 2003,Heymann, DL, & Stohr, K. SARS: A Global Perspective. In K. M (Ed.), SARS: The first new plague of the 21st century. 2003, London: Blackwell Publishing. ,Heymann, DL. The International response to the outbreak of SARS, 2003. In A. McLean, R. May, J. Pattison, & R. Weiss (Eds.), SARS: A case study in emerging infections (pp. 92-95). 2005, Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press. he was appointed the World Health Organization’s (WHO’s) first Assistant Director-General for Health Security in 2007 and authored the watershed World Health Report on Global Public Health Security in the 21st Century.World Health Organization. The World Health Report 2007: A Safer Future: Global Public Health Security in the 21ST Century. 2007, Geneva, Switzerland: World Health Organization. https://www.who.int/whr/2007/en/  
Since retiring from WHO in 2009 he has led several WHO advisory committees on emerging infectious disease threats, including the Zika virus and the COVID-19 outbreak.World Health Organization, International Health Regulations (2005) Emergency Committee on Zika virus and observed increase in neurological disorders and neonatal malformations. https://www.who.int/ihr/procedures/zika-ec-members/en/,Heymann, DL, Shindo, N. COVID-19: What Is next for Public Health? The Lancet 6736, no. 20 (2020): 19–21. https://doi.org/10.1016/S0140-6736(20)30374-3 He currently chairs WHO’s Strategic and Technical Advisory Group for Infectious Hazards.World Health Organization. Strategic and Technical Advisory Group for Infectious Hazards (STAG-IH). 
https://www.who.int/emergencies/diseases/strategic-and-technical-advisory-group-for-infectious-hazards/en/
 
The approach he devised in 2003 to combat SARS to bring unprecedented global technical collaboration to the effort through three virtual networks of the world’s leading disease detectives, public health experts and laboratory scientists,Heymann, D L. ‘Global Health Security: The Global Outbreak Alert and Response Network’. Scowcroft Paper. Vol. 5, 2016. https://oaktrust.library.tamu.edu/handle/1969.1/158839 is at the forefront of the WHO’s efforts to accelerate control the COVID-19 outbreaks.McCloskey, B and Heymann, DL. SARS to novel coronavirus – old lessons and new lessons, Epidemiology and Infection, 148 (2020), p. e22. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0950268820000254 
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For his work in public health, Heymann is regarded as one of the "Disease Cowboys". 
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