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Dr. Burkle was appointed Deputy Assistant Administrator for the Bureau of Global Health, United States Agency for International Development in June 2002. From 2000 to 2002 he was Senior Scholar, Scientist and Visiting Professor, The Center for International Emergency, Disaster and Refugee Studies, the Schools of Public Health and Medicine, Johns Hopkins University. From 1989 he was Professor of Surgery (Emergency Medicine), Pediatrics, and Public Health and Chair of the Division of Emergency Medicine, University of Hawaii School of Medicine. He is an Adjunct Professor at Tulane, the Uniformed Services University and the Africa Center for Strategic Studies, National Defense University. He graduated from the University of Vermont College of Medicine in 1965 and holds graduate degrees from Yale, Harvard, Dartmouth, the University of California at Berkeley, and a Diploma in Health Emergencies in Large Populations from the University of Geneva. He is certified in emergency medicine, pediatrics, pediatric emergency medicine, and psychiatry and holds a MPH in public health. He has worked in complex emergencies and refugee care in Viet Nam, northern Iraq, Somalia, the Former Yugoslavia , and Kosovo and in development and health and security in Asia, Africa and Eastern Europe. He was on the Board of Directors of the International Refugee Committee from 1996 and was Executive Director of the Health Unit for IRC in 1999. He has published over 110 articles and 4 books mostly in the field of disaster management and health. He is a retired Navy Reserve Captain, having served with the 1st, 2nd and 3rd Marine Divisions in Viet Nam, the Persian Gulf, and Somalia. He is the recipient of the Gorgas Medal for “groundbreaking work in the field of preventive medicine.”