Stephen Morse

Columbia University Center for Public Health Preparedness, Columbia University, United States of America

Stephen S. Morse, Ph.D. is Founding Director, Center for Public Health Preparedness, Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University, and Associate Professor in the Department of Epidemiology, as well as an adjunct faculty member at The Rockefeller University (where he served on the faculty from 1985 to 1996). From 1995 to 2000, he was Program Manager for Biodefense at the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA).

He chaired the NIH conference on emerging viruses in 1989 (for which he coined the term and concept of “emerging viruses”), was a member of the Institute of Medicine’s (IOM) Committee on Emerging Microbial Threats to Health (1992), founding Chair of ProMED (the international Program to Monitor Emerging Diseases), and a founding editor of the CDC journal “Emerging Infectious Diseases”.

Dr. Morse is a past Chair of the New York Academy of Sciences' Microbiology Section and a Fellow of the New York Academy of Sciences, the American Academy of Microbiology, the American College of Epidemiology, and the New York Academy of Medicine, and a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. He currently serves on the Steering Committee of the IOM Forum on Microbial Threats (formerly the Forum on Emerging Infections), on several other committees at the National Academies of Sciences, and on several government advisory panels. His book “Emerging Viruses” (Oxford University Press, 1993) was selected by American Scientist magazine for its list of “The Top 100 Science Books of the Century”.

He received his Ph.D. (microbiology/virology) from the University of Wisconsin, Madison.

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Faculty Member: Public Health & Epidemiology > Epidemiology (since 15 November 2005)