Volume 69 Number 5 October 2002	back to contents

Berson Lecture The Small World of Global Health	291-298
Jeffrey P. Koplan, M.D., M.P.H.

Former Director, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), 1600 Clifton Road, NE, Mailstop D-14, Atlanta, GA 30333.

Address all correspondence to Jeffrey P. Koplan, M.D., M.P.H., Vice President for Academic Health Affairs, Woodruff Health Sciences Center, 1440 Clifton Road, NE, Suite 410, Emory University, Atlanta, GA 30322.

Adapted from a Berson’s Lecture presentation to the Department of Medicine, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, NY, on January 26, 2000, and updated as of May 29, 2002.

ABSTRACT

This article is based on the Solomon Berson lecture, delivered by Dr. Koplan in January 2000. In his remarks, Dr. Koplan discussed the current status of global health and projected trends in three categories: communicable diseases, risk factors for disease, and selected diseases and health conditions. Reflecting on differences in health issues in the 30 years since he left Mount Sinai, Dr. Koplan pointed out that the health problems of developed and developing nations are strikingly similar now — which also means they are amenable to similar interventions.

KEYWORDS

Global health, developing nations, communicable diseases.

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