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Donald A. Henderson, M.D., M.P.H.
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 Dr. Donald A. Henderson is Distinguished Scholar at the Center for Biosecurity of the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center and Professor of Public Health and Medicine at the University of Pittsburgh. He is Dean Emeritus of the Johns Hopkins School of Public Health and a Founding Director (1998) of the Hopkins Center for Civilian Biodefense Strategies (now the Center for Biosecurity). From November 2001 through April 2003, he served as Director of the Office of Public Health Emergency Preparedness and, later, as Principal Science Advisor in the office of the Secretary of Health and Human Services.
Henderson's previous positions include: Associate Director of the Office of Science and Technology Policy, Executive Office of the President (1990-93); Dean of the Faculty of the Johns Hopkins School of Public Health (1977-90); and Director of the World Health Organization's global smallpox eradication campaign (1966-77).
In 2002, he received the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the nation's highest civilian honor. He is the recipient of the National Medal of Science; the National Academy of Sciences' Public Welfare Medal; and the Japan Prize, shared with two colleagues. He has received honorary
degrees from sixteen universities and special awards from nineteen countries.
He is a Member of the Institute of Medicine, a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, an Honorary Fellow of the National Academy of Medicine of Mexico, an Honorary Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians of London, an Honorary Member of the Royal Society of Medicine, and a fellow of a number of professional medical and public health societies.
Henderson is a member of the editorial board for the peer-reviewed journal, Biosecurity and Bioterrorism: Biodefense Strategy, Practice, and Science. Additionally, he has authored more than 200 articles and scientific papers; thirty-one book chapters; and (with his coauthors) the renowned Smallpox and Its Eradication, the authoritative history of the disease and its ultimate demise.
Henderson, a Lakewood, Ohio native, graduated from Oberlin College, from the University of Rochester School of Medicine, and the Johns Hopkins School of Hygiene and Public Health. He served as medical resident at the Mary Imogene Bassett Hospital in Cooperstown, New York.
(Profile Updated January 2008)
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