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Director World Health Organization’s Global Smallpox Eradication Campaign Joins One Health Initiative Honorary Advisory Board   The One Health Initiative Autonomous pro bono team is delighted to announce that Dr. D. A. Henderson, a physician, has accepted becoming a member of the team’s Honorary Advisory Board http://www.onehealthinitiative.com/advBoard.php on July 17, 2013.  He said, “I am delighted to be asked to join the Honorary Advisory Board.  It is a distinguished group and a worthy cause.”  The Advisory Board was established in 2010 and now has 29 distinguished members from within the U.S. and worldwide.   Donald A. Henderson, MD, MPH is presently a Resident Scholar at the Center for Biosecurity of the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center. The Center for Biosecurity was originally founded in 1998 as the Center for Civilian Biodefense Studies at the Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions. The Center was established to increase national and international awareness of the medical and public health threats posed by biological weapons. Immediately after the 9/11 terrorist attack, Dr. Henderson was appointed as the governments first Director of the Office of Public Health Emergency Preparedness. He continues to serve as senior science advisor to the Office of Public Health Emergency Preparedness of the Department of Health and Human Services. Dr. Henderson is a Johns Hopkins University Distinguished Service Professor and Dean Emeritus of the School, with a joint appointment in the department of Epidemiology. He is also Professor of Medicine and Public Health of the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine. He rejoined the Hopkins faculty in June 1995 after five years of federal government service in which he served initially as Associate Director, Office of Science and Technology Policy, Executive Office of the President (1991-1993), and later as deputy assistant secretary and senior science advisor in the Department of Health and Human Services. From 1977 through August 1990, Dr. Henderson was dean of the Johns Hopkins School of Public Health. He came to Hopkins after directing the World Health Organizations (WHO) global smallpox eradication campaign (1966-1977). Dr. Henderson was instrumental in initiating WHOs global program of immunization, which has vaccinated 80 percent of the worlds children against six major diseases and has as a goal the eradication of poliomyelitis. Dr. Henderson is a longstanding One Health supporter/advocate.  See http://www.onehealthinitiative.com/supporters.php and http://www.onehealthinitiative.com/endorsements.php.