Donald S.

Burke

Dr. Donald S. Burke is Distinguished University Professor of Health Science and Policy and Epidemiology, and former Dean, at the Graduate School of Public Health, University of Pittsburgh. He served 23 years as an active duty officer at the Walter Reed Army Institute of Research and 9 years as a professor at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. He joined the University of Pittsburgh in 2006 where as Dean he founded the Public Health Dynamics Laboratory, an academic team that develops computational models and simulations of epidemics and uses these simulations to evaluate prevention and control strategies. In 2018 he received the John Snow Award from the American Public Health Association and the Royal Society for Public Health.