Professor emeritus, History Department/Colby College. Waterville - Maine - USA
Hist Cienc Saude Manguinhos. 2020 Sep;27(suppl 1):13-28. doi: 10.1590/S0104-59702020000300002.
The subdiscipline of historical epidemiology holds the promise of creating a more robust and more nuanced foundation for global public health decision-making by deepening the empirical record from which we draw lessons about past interventions. This essay draws upon historical epidemiological research on three global public health campaigns to illustrate this promise: the Rockefeller Foundation's efforts to control hookworm disease (1909-c.1930), the World Health Organization's pilot projects for malaria eradication in tropical Africa (1950s-1960s), and the international efforts to shut down the transmission of Ebola virus disease during outbreaks in tropical Africa (1974-2019).
历史流行病学的分支学科有望通过深化我们从过去干预措施中吸取经验的经验记录，为全球公共卫生决策提供更有力和更细致的基础。本文通过对历史流行病学研究的三个全球公共卫生运动进行研究，说明了这一前景：洛克菲勒基金会控制钩虫病的努力（1909 年至 1930 年），世界卫生组织在热带非洲进行的疟疾消除试点项目（20 世纪 50 年代至 60 年代），以及在热带非洲埃博拉病毒病爆发期间为阻止病毒传播所做的国际努力（1974 年至 2019 年）。
