Ronald Waldman
Professor of Clinical Population and Family Health
E-mail: rw178@columbia.edu

Ronald J Waldman, MD, MPH, is Professor of Clinical Population and Family Health and Professor of Clinical Epidemiology. A physician specializing in child health in developing countries, he began his career with the World Health Organization's Global Smallpox Eradication Program in Bangladesh. He subsequently worked at the Center for Disease Control and Prevention for more than 20 years where, among other assignments, he directed technical support activities for the Combating Childhood Communicable Diseases Project. In the 1980s and 1990s he and his colleagues at the CDC published a series of studies on the epidemiology of refugee health and provided public health assistance in many international humanitarian crises. He was the coordinator of the Task Force on Cholera Control at WHO and the technical director of the USAID-funded child survival BASICS Project. He is the immediate past chairman of the International Health Section of the American Public Health Association and serves in an advisory capacity to a number of international non-governmental organizations. He has worked in complex emergencies in Somalia, Rwanda, Bosnia, Albania, Democratic Republic of Congo, Afghanistan and, most recently, Iraq. Dr. Waldman was the founder and former director of the Mailman School's Program on Forced Migration and Health.