Committees and Boards

United States

• Office of Science and Technology Policy, Executive Office of the President
  • Advisory Committee on Science, Technology and Development, 1978-1979
  • Task Force for Science and Technology in Foreign Assistance, Chairman, 1980
• Surgeon General’s Advisory Committees
  • Influenza, Secretary, 1961-1965
  • Measles Vaccines, Secretary, 1963
  • Immunization Practices, Secretary, 1964-1966
  • Special Advisory Committee on Oral Poliomyelitis Vaccines, Secretary, Jul 17-18 1964
• Government Accounting Office
  • Research and Education Advisory Panel to the Comptroller-General, 1977-1986
  • Advisory Board, Program Evaluation and Methodology Division, 1988-1991
• U.S. Agency for International Development, Research Advisory Committee, 1983-1990
• Department of Health and Human Services
  • National Ethics Advisory Board, 1977-1980
  • CDC Programs and Policy Advisory Committee, 1978-1980
  • PHS Hospitals ad hoc Advisory Committee, 1978
  • Secretary’s Committee on Influenza, Vice-Chairman, 1979
  • Immunization Practices Advisory Committee, CDC, 1982-1986
  • National Vaccine Advisory Committee, 1988-1989
    • Chairman, 1990
  • Secretary’s Council on Health Promotion and Disease Prevention, 1989-1990
  • National Advisory Committee on Public Health Preparedness, Chair, 2002-2005
• Department of State, Advisory Committee on Oceans, Environmental and Scientific Affairs, 1988-1990
• Department of Defense
  • Biological Warfare Defense Panel, Member, 1999-2000
  • Defense Threat Reduction Agency, Advisory Committee, 2000-2009
• National Research Council, National Academy of Sciences
  • Institute of Medicine
    • Steering Committee for Study on Clinical Investigations in Developing Countries, 1978-1980
    • Advisory Committee on Health, Biomedical Research and Development, Chairman, 1981-1983
    • Steering Committee, Study of Tropical Diseases, 1984-1987
    • Committee on the Evaluation of Poliomyelitis Vaccine, 1987-1988
    • Board on International Health, 1988-1991
  • National Research Council
    • Board on Science and Technology in International Development, 1981-1983
    • Committee on Research Grants, 1982-1983
    • Report Review Committee, 1998-2004
    • International Advisory Board, 1998-2004
    • Committee to Review Safety Measures and Risk (for new installation at Fort Detrick, Maryland), 2010
• Association of Schools of Public Health
  • Treasurer, 1978
  • Vice-President, 1981-1982 and 1987-1988
  • President, 1988-1990
• Association of Academic Health Centers, Task Force on Health Promotion/Disease Prevention, 1989-1991
• American Public Health Association
  • Committee on Hepatitis, Chairman, 1961-1965
  • Multiple Antigen Committee, 1964-1966
  • Epidemiology Section Council, 1965-1967
• American Journal of Epidemiology, Board of Overseers
  • Associate Editor, 1965-1977
  • Chairman, 1984-1990
• AIDS Patient Care, Editorial Advisory Panel, 1987-1991
• Journal of Disaster Medicine and Public Health Preparedness, Associate Board, 2007-2016
• Journal of Biosecurity and Bioterrorism, Associate Editor, 2003-2010; Co-Editor, 2010-2015
• Mayor’s Task Force on Environmental Carcinogens (Baltimore), Chairman, 1977-1978
• Maryland Society for Medical Research, Inc., Board of Directors, 1978-1991
• Mary Imogene Bassett Hospital
  • Medical Alumni Association, Board of Directors, 1989-1991
  • Board of Trustees and Chairman of Research Committee, 1995-2001
• City University of New York Medical School, National Visiting Committee, 1986-1989
• United Fresh Fruit and Vegetable Association, Scientific Advisory Panel, 1988-1989
• Charles A. Dana Foundation Awards Jury, 1990-1996
• Center for Urban Epidemiologic Studies, New York Academy of Medicine, Advisory Board, 1996-2001
• Edna McConnell Clark Foundation, Tropical Disease Research Program, Advisory Board, 1997-1999
• American Council for Science and Health, Board of Directors, 2006-2010

International

• World Health Organization
  • Special Committee on Measles Vaccine, Consultant, 1963
  • Scientific Group on Human Virus Vaccines, Member, 1965
  • Expert Advisory Panel on Virus Diseases, 1977-2001
  • Global Commission for the Certification of Smallpox Eradication, 1978-1980
  • Program Advisory Group for the Prevention of Blindness, 1978-1982
  • Program for Research and Training in Tropical Diseases, Scientific and Technological Advisory Committee, 1982-1984
  • Caribbean Epidemiology Center, Scientific Advisory Committee, 1980-1983
  • Pan-American Health Organization Technical Advisory Group on Vaccines and Immunization, Chairman, 1985-2004
  • Consultative Group on Poliomyelitis Eradication, Chairman, 1988-1992
  • Committee on Orthopoxvirus Infections, 1981-1994
  • Scientific Advisory Group of Experts, Children’s Vaccine Initiative and Global Program of Vaccination, 1994-1996
  • WHO International Health Regulations, Roster of Experts, 2008-2016
• India
  • Indian Institute of Health Management Research, Board of Trustees, 1985-1990
  • International Center for Diarrheal Disease Research (Dhaka), Board of Trustees, 1988-1990
• Republic of China
  • Scientific and Technical Advisory Group to Premier and Executive Yuan, 1994-1999
• Thailand
  • Prince Mahidol Awards Foundation, International Awards Committee, 1997-2010

• International Association for Maternal and Neonatal Health, Scientific Council, 1981-1990
• Population Crisis Committee, Board of Directors, 1981-1991
• Rotary Foundation of Rotary International, Polio Plus Advisory Committee, 1985-1990
• One Health Initiative, Honorary Advisory Board, 2013-2016

Not listed: Johns Hopkins University and School Committees, 1977-1990, while serving as Dean of the School; Government Committees, 1991-1995, while serving in the Executive Office of the President and as Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services,