World Chronicle 926: David Heymann, WHO

Tony Jenkins interviews Dr. David Heymann, Executive Director of the World Health Organization Communicable Diseases Cluster, for World Chronicle program 926.

• Categories: News & Features / Features / World Chronicle
• Video Length: 00:28:01
• Production Date: 21 January 2004
• Asset Language: English
• Personal Subject: BETSY PISIK; DAVID HEYMANN; LOUIS HAMANN; TONY JENKINS
• Corporate Name: WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION - WHO
• Subject Topical: COMMUNICABLE DISEASES; HEALTH; INFECTIOUS DISEASES; POLIO; POLIO VACCINATION
• MAMS Id: 2121907
• Parent Id: 828120

Description

Eradicating Polio and Fighting Infectious Diseases

This year the World Health Organisation (WHO) – working with such partners as UNICEF, Rotary International and the U.S. Center for Disease Control (CDC) – aims to eradicate the crippling disease of polio.

Leading the polio eradication effort is one of the world’s experts in fighting diseases such as smallpox, SARS, and Ebola: Dr. David Heymann, the guest on this edition of World Chronicle.

Will this effort succeed, when previous targets set for eradicating polio have not been met? What obstacles does the eradication effort face, and how costly is it? Is humanity increasingly threatened by possible outbreaks of infectious diseases like polio and SARS? These are some of the questions raised during the discussion.

• Scripts: File; 926.pdf (38.32 KB)