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Dr. Burkle is currently serving as Senior
Scholar & Scientist, and Visiting Professor, The Center
for International Emergency, Disaster & Refugee Studies,
The Johns Hopkins Medical Institutes and the Schools of
Medicine, and Hygiene & Public Health. From 2002-03
he served as Deputy Assistant Administrator for the Bureau
of Global Health at USAID. From 1989 to 2000, he was Professor
of Pediatrics, Surgery and Public Health and Chairman, Division
of Emergency Medicine, Department of Surgery, University
of Hawaii Schools of Medicine and Public Health. He is Adjunct
Professor, The African Center for Strategic Studies, the
Uniformed Services University of Health Sciences, and the
Tulane University School of Public Health in New Orleans.
He served as the Senior Advisor in Medicine and Public Health
for the Defense Threat Reduction Agency and as a Research
Scientist for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
He is a graduate of Saint Michael's College
(1961) and the University of Vermont College of Medicine
(1965). Dr. Burkle holds post-graduate degrees from Yale,
Harvard, Dartmouth, the University of California at Berkeley,
and a Diploma from the University of Geneva, Switzerland,
in Health Emergencies in Large Populations. He is qualified
in Emergency Medicine, Pediatrics, Pediatric Emergency Medicine,
and Psychiatry and holds a Master's Degree in Public Health.
He is a Fellow of the American College of Emergency Physicians
and the American Academy of Pediatrics, and received the
Emergency Physician of the Year Award in 1999 from the Governor
of Hawaii.
Dr. Burkle was the founder and Director
of the Center of Excellence in Disaster Management and Humanitarian
Assistance from 1994-2000 a World Health Organization (WHO)
Collaborating Center for humanitarian civil-military cooperation,
the only one so designated. The Center facilitates integrated
military and civilian education, training and research in
complex humanitarian emergencies.
Professor Burkle has published over 100 scientific articles,
abstracts and book chapters, four books, two on disaster
management including Disaster Medicine a sentinel text on
the emergency response to disasters (1984). He has consulted
on numerous humanitarian emergencies and large-scale international
disasters in Asia, Africa and Eastern Europe and serves
as an International Health Delegate to the Red Cross. He
served as Joint Civil-Military Liaison for the Kurdish Crisis
in southern Turkey, northern Iraq, and Baghdad, and again
in the humanitarian crisis in Somalia where he also served
as a UN Delegate to the 3rd Somalia Conference in Ethiopia.
In 1996, he headed a global health assessment for the International
Rescue Committee in the former Yugoslavia, Central Africa,
and Pakistan and in 1999 was a member of the Presidential
Delegation to Kosovo. In 2003 he served as the Senior Medical
Officer in Iraq on the Disaster Assistance Response Team
(DART) for the Office of Foreign Disaster Assistance, USAID.
He also served as the Interim Minister of Health in Iraq
during the relief phase of the crisis, and as Senior Advisor
for WHO on Health Emergencies in Liberia.
Dr. Burkle has received numerous "Excellence
in Teaching" and humanitarian service awards. These
include the prestigious Gorgas Medal for "distinguished
work in preventive medicine, groundbreaking work in disaster
management and humanitarian assistance and the training
of an entire generation of U.S. and international personnel,"
and the Cook Award for Humanitarian Service. He is a member
of the Board of Directors of the International Rescue Committee,
the world's largest refugee NGO, headquartered in New York
City and was their Executive Medical Director in 1999.
In 2007, Professor Burkle was elected for
membership to the National Academy of Sciences' Institute
of Medicine, which is one of the highest honours for those
in the biomedical professions.
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