Dr. Scott Ferris Dowell (born 1963)

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2019 (May 11) - Georgetown University Medical Center - "Panel Reflects on Lessons From the Past to Secure Public Health for the Future"

Global health experts participated in a panel discussion convened by the Center for Global Health Science and Security to reflect on global progress in strengthening prevention, detection and response to life-threatening outbreaks.

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While measures to improve infectious disease response have improved dramatically over the past decade, the global health community cannot afford to be complacent, according to experts who gathered at a Georgetown event Wednesday.

The Center for Global Health Science and Security, part of Georgetown University Medical Center, convened a panel discussion May 8 at the Berkley Center for Religion, Peace, and World Affairs to reflect on global progress in strengthening prevention, detection and response to life-threatening outbreaks. The event brought together expert panelists for an audience including high-level global health security experts.

The discussion, “10 years and counting,” marked the 10^th anniversary of the CDC’s Global Disease Detection (GDD) program.

[Dr. Rebecca Lynn Katz (born 1973)], PhD, MPH, director of the Center for Global Health Science and Security, moderated the discussion. She said that she hoped it would serve as a springboard to help shape the conversation around the future of global health security.

“We want to provide an opportunity for these experts from the field to engage in a dialogue that may not be part of their daily work,” Katz said. “Part of what we are trying to do is push the conversation forward and help raise the field up overall.”

Learning from Mistakes of the Past

Scott F. Dowell, MD, deputy director for surveillance and epidemiology at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, reflected on the origins of the SARS epidemic that led to the creation of the GDD program. He shared his memories of the early SARS days, recalling the untimely death of [Carlo Urbani (born 1956)], MD, who was the first WHO officer to identify — and ultimately succumb to — SARS. The disease killed 774 people in the 2003 outbreak.

Dowell said that, after Urbani’s death, he and others examined what breakdowns in public health allowed the outbreak to spread, and identified three themes: lack of transparency in public health reporting; insufficient epidemiological investigation; and a bottleneck in laboratory testing.

The GDD program has been a game changer, he said, but the current outbreak of Ebola in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) has revealed similar challenges, namely in data sharing transparency, epidemiology and laboratory capacity. While great strides have been made in each of these areas, the Ebola outbreak highlights that “there is lots to be proud of about GDD, but there is still plenty of work to be done.”

Lasting Impact

Part of the GDD’s lasting impact has been the formal and informal networks it helped establish.

Capt. Joel M. Montgomery, PhD

Capt. Joel M. Montgomery, PhD, chief of the Viral Special Pathogens Branch at CDC’s National Center for Emerging and Zoonotic Infectious Diseases, said these are an extremely important outgrowth of the GDD because they facilitate capacity building and information sharing.

Montgomery said the challenge in the DRC has been the ongoing security issue due to armed conflict.

“We are only going to get past the risk with enhanced community engagement and by building trust in the communities, but you have to be there to do that,” he said. “That’s another reason why these informal networks we have through the GDD and other programs are so important.”

Capt. Nancy Knight, MD

Capt. Nancy Knight, MD, director of the CDC’s Division of Global Health Protection, emphasized that political instability presents a major challenge for global health experts, who may not be able to do their work because of security concerns.

“That’s something we have to be thinking about: How do we address diseases in these settings where the disease can move around even when we can’t?”

Carolyn Greene, MD

Carolyn Greene, MD, associate director for Influenza Preparedness and Response at CDC’s National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases, told the story of the 10-year partnership between the U.S. and China in combating influenza threats in China and beyond. This case study, born of the GDD, demonstrates how “successful influenza detection, prevention and response is very much dependent on successful international public health partnerships.”

As the CDC evaluates the successes and challenges of the GDD and looks to how it should prioritize its resources moving forward, academic institutions such as Georgetown can play an important role.

“One of the things we can do in academia is… help provide the evidence and data to support strategic decision-making” around allocation of global health resources, Katz said. “For example, where is the highest prevalence of disease, where might the next outbreak emerge, and how might it spread.”

Lauren Wolkoff / GUMC Communications

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Scott F. Dowell

Deputy Director, Vaccine Development & Surveillance – Surveillance and Epidemiology

Dr. Scott F. Dowell, a pediatric infectious disease specialist by training, focuses on tracking the causes of global childhood mortality. He joined the foundation in 2014 after 21 years at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), where he studied viral and bacterial pneumonia, responded to outbreaks of Ebola and other pathogens, and established global disease surveillance and outbreak response programs.

From 2001 to 2005, Scott established and directed the International Emerging Infections Program in Thailand, a collaboration between the CDC and the Thai Ministry of Public Health. The program received accolades from both the Thai and U.S. governments for its prominent role in responding to the SARS crisis, and for its leadership in defining the response to avian influenza A (H5N1) in Southeast Asia. Building on the success of the Thailand work on emerging infections, he returned to Atlanta to help develop the Global Disease Detection program, which became CDC’s principal means of identifying and containing emerging infections around the world, with GDD Regional Centers in 10 countries. In 2009 the program was formally recognized by the World Health Organization as a Collaborating Center and Scott was named as its first director. He led CDC’s response to the earthquake and cholera epidemic in Haiti during 2010-2011, helping to rebuild the public health infrastructure and contributing to the saving of an estimated 7,000 lives.

Scott served as the director of the Division of Global Disease Detection and Emergency Response from 2009-12, and led the agency’s Global Health Security Agenda from 2012-14. In 2014, he retired from the U.S. Public Health Service at the rank of Rear Admiral and Assistant Surgeon General. He has co-authored more than 170 publications and has a special interest in targeted reductions in childhood mortality.

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Dr. Scott F. Dowell

Pediatric Infectious Disease

General Pediatric Infectious Disease

Atlanta, GA

Male

21+ Yrs Experience

English

1600 Clifton Rd Ne, Atlanta, GA

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Nice - Scott Dowell, from a military family

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1980 (Feb 10) - Dr. Duane Dowell - Cover of Newsday !!!

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LENDING HANDS IN HAITI

January 31, 2010

Christine Vernon

The Drs. Ubogy and Dowell

David Ubogy and Beth Dowell live in a comfortable home in a Chicago suburb but on January 20, 2010, they took a huge step out of their comfort zone and embarked on a courageous journey where they worked separately offering their assistance in Haiti. I got a call on a Sunday morning that “Someone needs to tell their story!” So I called them and met with them within hours of their Tuesday departure. Later that day, at eight at night, just after they put their two boys to bed, we sat down to talk.

David is a pediatric critical care specialist and Beth is a family practice physician. Beth's mission, a needs assessment trip for The Heartland Alliance with three colleagues. David's mission, to work at the Hôpital Albert Schweitzer with two other doctors, returning to this hospital he was introduced to by Beth and her father. Beth's father, Duane Dowell, M.D., rotated his practice on the East Coast to Haiti once every three years in the 1960's. In that practice, two physicians worked to support three doctors. Rotating each person's service, each of three of the doctors took one year every three years, and worked in Haiti. Every third year, Dr. Duane Dowell and his wife, Vera, moved to Haiti with their three children.

David gave me an article to explain some of why he and Beth are moved to help in Haiti. It is an insight into what would draw physicians to the task of working in a nation like Haiti. It is an essay by Ralph S. Greco, M.D., Stanford, California, “The Cardboard Box” from the Journal of the American Medical Association, August 2, 2000.

Greco's essay opens with this sentence “The Haitian sky at night is breathtaking, a sea of jet ink in which flow shimmering stars more numerous than can be imagined. Or is this an illusion to hide...starving children....impoverished villages?” The name Haiti is taken from the Arawak word for “mountain.”

Greco tells the story of William Larimer Mellon, Jr., whose life was influenced by the life and work of Dr. Albert Schwietzer in West Africa when he visited there with his wife, Gwendolyn Grant, later visited Haiti in 1951 for the first time. Mellon went on to Tulane to attend medical school and, later, he and his wife went back to Haiti and founded The Hôpital Albert Schweitzer in 1956. It was built on a former plantation in the Artibonite Valley. It has been serving the people there since then. Dr. Greco says the Schweitzer philosphy of 'reverence for life' is alive and well at the Mellon hospital. Mellon was also responsible for advances in irrigation and agriculture as well. Schweitzer influences Mellon. Mellon influences Greco. Greco influences Ubogy and Dowell.

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