Public Health and Institutional Medicine

Government research building at dusk
This category covers physicians who led national public-health institutions
Infographic: research, policy and outbreaks
Public-health officials direct research, advise on policy and respond to outbreaks
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Outbreak research, from HIV to COVID-19, runs through this category

The People (1)

🦠1968–2022

Anthony Fauci

American physician-scientist Anthony Fauci, who directed the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases from 1984 to 2022, through human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)/acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) and COVID-19.

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Figures whose influence ran through institutions rather than a laboratory bench or a clinic. The record here is documentary: what was said, when, and by whom.

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