Nick_Ward_(physician)

Nick Ward (physician)

Nick Ward (physician)

British physician and expert on smallpox

Nick Ward is a British physician and expert on smallpox. He worked in Botswana before having lead roles during the World Health Organization's smallpox eradication programme in Bangladesh and was the first coordinator of the Global Polio Eradication Initiative.[1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8]

In 1993 he delivered the inaugural Pumphandle Lecture of the John Snow Society.[9]

References

  1. [1]
    Foster, Stanley O.; Hughes, Kenneth; Tarantola, Daniel; Glasser, John W. (December 2011). "Smallpox eradication in Bangladesh, 1972–1976". Vaccine. 29: D22-9. doi:10.1016/j.vaccine.2011.06.081. PMC 5723923. PMID 22188934.
  2. [2]
    Keywood, Sean. "Nick's got the beating of Himalayan balsam plant". Exmouth Journal. Archived from the original on 28 October 2023. Retrieved 28 October 2023.
  3. [3]
    Pallen, Mark (2018). "24. Bangladesh 1973". The Last Days of Smallpox; Tragedy in Birmingham. pp. 71–73. ISBN 9781980455226.
  4. [4]
    Henderson, D. A. (2009). Smallpox: The Death of a Disease: The Inside Story of Eradicating a Worldwide Killer. Prometheus Books. p. 32. ISBN 978-1-59102-722-5.
  5. [5]
    Goodfield (1985). Quest for the Killers. Birkhäuser. p. 203. ISBN 978-0-8176-3313-4.
  6. [6]
    "1993 Dr Nick Ward: Global Polio Eradication- a call for action". The John Snow Society. 9 September 1993. Retrieved 11 September 2020.
  7. [7]
    Bartlett, Karen (2017). The Health of Nations: The Campaign to End Polio and Eradicate Epidemic Diseases. Oneworld Publications. p. 61. ISBN 978-1-78607-069-2.
  8. [8]
    "Certification of Poliomyelitis Eradication". Fifteenth meeting of the European Regional Certification Commission Copenhagen, 19–21 June 2002, p. 25
  9. [9]
    "1993 Dr Nick Ward: Global Polio Eradication- a call for action". The John Snow Society. 9 September 1993. Archived from the original on 26 October 2023. Retrieved 26 October 2023.


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