- Received the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2012.
- Renowned epidemiologist and former Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Director who has served as global health advisor to the Bill Gates and Melinda Gates Foundation.
- Best known for developing a ring containment deployment strategy for smallpox vaccinations in the 1970s - eradicating the deadly disease that up until that point claimed millions of lives per year.
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