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Melinda MooreWashington Office Senior Natural Scientist |
Biography
Melinda Moore is a public health physician and Senior Natural Scientist at RAND since 2005. Prior to that, she served with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention for 20 years and the Department of Health and Human Services' Office Global Health Affairs for five years. Her principal career focus has been global health, and her areas of expertise include child survival and nutrition, infectious disease surveillance and control, environmental health and urbanization, safe drinking water, and health and foreign policy. At RAND, she has focused on infectious disease surveillance, public health and pandemic influenza preparedness, military health, and environmental health. Public health preparedness projects she has led or participated in have: compared plans and response to potential anthrax incidents; identified strategies for improving global influenza surveillance; implemented tabletop pandemic influenza preparedness exercises in the United States, Southeast Asia and the Middle East. She has led or co-led military health projects related to medical intelligence, community disaster preparedness, the DoD Serum Repository, Army veterinarians in stability operations, and evaluation of humanitarian assistance efforts. She leads RAND's efforts, working with the University of North Carolina, to help develop a long-term strategy and medium term action plan for environmental health in the United Arab Emirates. Dr. Moore is board certified in pediatrics and preventive medicine; has worked in over 45 countries; and speaks five languages. She is a retired Medical Officer (Captain, O6) of the U.S. Public Health Service.
Research Focus
Global health; military health; child health; public health preparedness; preventive medicine; health and foreign policy; environmental health
RAND Research Areas
Energy and Environment; Health and Health Care; International Affairs
Recent Projects
- Disease surveillance
- Pandemic influenza preparedness
- Environmental health
- Military health
- Public health program evaluation
Selected Publications
Lurie N, Dausey DJ, Knighton T, Moore M, Zakowsky S, Deyton L, "Community Planning for Pandemic Influenza: Lessons from the VA Health Care System", Disaster Medicine and Public Health Preparedness, 206 269-78, 2008
Kimball AM, Moore M, French HM, Arima Y, Kumnuan U, Suwit W, Taylor T, Sok T, Leventhal A, "Regional Infectious Disease Surveillance Networks and their Potential to Facilitate the Implementation of the International Health Regulations", Medical Clinics of North America, 92(6) 1459-1471, 2008
Moore M, Chan E, Lurie N, Schaefer AG, Varda DV, Zambrano JA, "Strategies to improve global influenza surveillance: A decision tool for policymakers", BioMed Central Public Health, 8 186, 2008
G. Cecchine and M. Moore, Infectious Disease and National Security: Strategic Information Needs, RAND Corporation, 2006
Moore M, Gould P, Keary BS, "Global urbanization and impact on health", Int. J. Hyg. Environ. Health, 2003
Moore M, Davachi F, Bongo L, Seruvugo H, Mushiya K, Roy JA, Mambu¬ma-Disu, "New Parameters for Evaluating Oral Rehydration Therapy: One Year's Experience in a Major Urban Hospital in Zaire", J Tropical Pediatrics, 353 179-184, 1989
Honors & Awards
- President's Gold Award awarded by RAND President
Research Focus
Global health, military health, child health, public health preparedness, preventive medicine, health and foreign policy
Recent Projects
- Disease surveillance
- Pandemic influenza preparedness
- Disaster preparedness and response
- Military health
- Public health program evaluation
Previous Positions
Deputy Director for Operations, Office of Global Health Affairs, Department of Health and Human Services; Associate Director for Global Health, National Center for Environmental Health, Centers for Disease Control and Pre-vention (CDC); Acting Associate Director for Global Health-CDC; member, Tulane University team that established the Zaire School of Public Health in Kinshasa, Zaire (now Democratic Republic of the Congo); first chair of the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation's Health Task ForceSelected Publications
Infectious Disease and National Security: Strategic Information Needs, G. Cecchine and M. Moore, RAND Corporation, 2006
"Global Urbanization and Impact on Health," M. Moore et al., International Journal of Hygiene and Environmental Health, Vol. 206, Nos. 4-5, Aug 2003
"Global Health: A New Paradigm for a New Era," University of Illinois Public Health Leadership Institute Newsletter, Spring 2000
"The Role of HIV Counseling and Testing in the Developing World," M. Moore et al., AIDS Education and Prevention, 1997
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