通过环接种疫苗根除天花的建筑师William Foege博士89岁去世。 Dr. William Foege, architect of smallpox eradication via ring vaccination, has died at 89.

William Foege博士是一位具有开创性的公共卫生领袖,也是消灭天花运动的主要设计师,他于89岁去世。 Dr. William Foege, a pioneering public health leader and key architect of the smallpox eradication campaign, has died at 89. 他于1960年代在尼日利亚制定了“环环遏制”战略,以感染疫苗的人的密切接触为目标,这是全球努力的关键方法,导致1980年宣布消灭天花。 He developed the "ring containment" strategy in Nigeria in the 1960s, targeting close contacts of infected individuals with vaccines, a method critical to the global effort that led to smallpox being declared eradicated in 1980. Foege从1977年至1983年担任疾病防治中心主任,在卡特中心、比尔和梅林达·盖茨基金会以及他共同创立的全球卫生工作队中担任领导职务。 Foege served as CDC director from 1977 to 1983 and held leadership roles at The Carter Center, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, and the Task Force for Global Health, which he co-founded. 他于2012年获得总统自由勋章,并因拯救数亿人的生命而功劳卓著。 He received the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2012 and is credited with saving hundreds of millions of lives.