Michael H. Merson

Michael Merson is the Wolfgang Joklik Professor of Global Health and the founding Director of the Duke Global Health Institute at Duke University. Prior to this position, he served for ten years as the first Dean of Public Health at Yale University School of Medicine and seven years as Director of the Center for Interdisciplinary Research on AIDS at Yale. Previously he worked for 17 years with the World Health Organization (WHO) serving first as Director of the Diarrheal Diseases Control and Acute Respiratory Control Programs and subsequently as Executive Director of the WHO Global Program on AIDS.