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Task Forces
At its first meeting, the Committee on Emerging Microbial Threats to Health decided to form four task forces to obtain input from the scientific community at large. Each task force (with the exception of Task Force 4) was composed of both committee and noncommittee members and a rapporteur. Task Forces 1 through 3 dealt with specific categories of organisms; Task Force 4 examined policy options that the committee might wish to consider in developing its recommendations. It was later decided to establish a fifth task force to refine the recommendations drafted by the full committee at its third meeting in January 1992. In the lists below, committee members are designated by an asterisk.
TASK FORCE 1
Bacteria, Rickettsiae, and Chlamydiae
Task Force 1 met in Washington, D.C. on May 20-21, 1991, with the following participants:
BARRY R. BLOOM,* Department of Microbiology and Immunology and Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Yeshiva University
ROBERT L. BUCHANAN,* Microbial Food Safety Research Unit, Agricultural Research Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Eastern Regional Research Center
J. THOMAS GRAYSTON, Department of Epidemiology, University of Washington
GEORGE A. JACOBY, JR., Infectious Disease Unit, Massachusetts General Hospital
GERALD L. MANDELL, (Chair),* Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Internal Medicine, University of Virginia
WILLIAM A. PETRI, JR. (Rapporteur), Medicine and Microbiology, Divisions of Infectious Diseases and Geographic Medicine, University of Virginia Health Sciences Center
P. FREDERICK SPARLING,* Department of Medicine, University of North Carolina School of Medicine
ANDREW SPIELMAN,* Department of Tropical Public Health, Harvard School of Public Health
DAVID H. WALKER, Department of Pathology, University of Texas Medical Branch
RICHARD P. WENZEL, Department of Clinical Epidemiology, University of Iowa Hospital
TASK FORCE 2
Viruses
Task Force 2 met in Washington, D.C., on May 16-17, 1991, with the following participants:
BRUCE F. ELDRIDGE, University of California Mosquito Research Program, Department of Entomology, University of California at Davis
PATRICIA N. FULTZ,* Department of Microbiology, University of Alabama at Birmingham
DUANE J. GUBLER, Vector-Borne Infectious Diseases Division, National Center for Infectious Diseases, Centers for Disease Control
JAMES L. HARDY, School of Public Health, University of California at Berkeley
FREDERICK G. HAYDEN, Department of Internal Medicine, University of Virginia Hospital
JOHN J. HOLLAND,* Department of Biology and Institute for Molecular Biology, University of California at San Diego
RICHARD T. JOHNSON, Department of Neurology, Microbiology, and Neuroscience, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
EDWIN D. KILBOURNE,* Department of Microbiology, Mount Sinai School of Medicine
STEPHEN S. MORSE (Chair),* Rockefeller University
FREDERICK A. MURPHY, School of Veterinary Medicine, University of California at Davis
THOMAS W. SCOTT (Rapporteur), Department of Entomology, University of Maryland at College Park
ALEXIS SHELOKOV,* Salk Institute, Government Services Division
TASK FORCE 3
Protozoans, Helminths, and Fungi
Task Force 3 met in Washington, D.C., on May 8, 1991, with the following participants:
RONALD E. BLANTON (Rapporteur), Division of Geographic Medicine, Department of Medicine, Case Western Reserve University, School of Medicine
CARLOS C. CAMPBELL, Malaria Branch, Parasitic Diseases Division, National Center for Infectious Diseases, Centers for Disease Control
WILLIAM E. DISMUKES, Department of Medicine, Division of Infectious Disease, University of Alabama School of Medicine
ADEL A. F. MAHMOUD (Chair),* Department of Medicine, Case Western Reserve University, University Hospitals of Cleveland
ROSEMARY SOAVE, Division of Infectious Diseases, Cornell Medical Center, New York Hospital
ANDREW SPIELMAN,* Department of Tropical Public Health, Harvard School of Public Health
ROBERT B. TESH, Yale Arbovirus Research Unit, Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, Yale University School of Medicine
TASK FORCE 4
Policy Options
Task Force 4 met in Washington, D.C., on May 13-14, 1991, with the following participants:
BARRY R. BLOOM,* Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Yeshiva University
CIRO A. DE QUADROS, Expanded Programme on Immunization, Pan American Health Organization
WALTER R. DOWDLE, Centers for Disease Control
DEAN T. JAMISON,* Department of Community Health Sciences and Department of Education, University of California at Los Angeles
ADETOKUNBO LUCAS, Department of Population Sciences, Harvard School of Public Health
HARRY M. MEYER, JR., Medical Research Division, American Cyanamid Company
PHILIP K. RUSSELL, (Chair),* School of Hygiene and Public Health, Johns Hopkins University
ROBERT E. SHOPE,* Yale Arbovirus Research Unit, Yale University School of Medicine
TASK FORCE 5
Recommendations
Task Force 5 met in Washington, D.C., on February 17, 1992, with the following participants:
JOSHUA LEDERBERG,* Rockefeller University
ADEL A. F. MAHMOUD,* Department of Medicine, Case Western Reserve University, University Hospitals of Cleveland
GERALD L. MANDELL, Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Internal Medicine, University of Virginia
STEPHEN S. MORSE,* Rockefeller University
PHILIP K. RUSSELL,* School of Hygiene and Public Health, Johns Hopkins University
ROBERT E. SHOPE, (Chair),* Yale Arbovirus Research Unit, Yale University School of Medicine