Jonathan D. Quick

Jonathan D. Quick (born 1942), is a family physician and public health management specialist that focuses on global health security.[1] He is adjunct professor of global health at Duke University in North Carolina. His book The End of Epidemics: The Looming Threat to Humanity and How to Stop It was published in 2018.[2][3]

This article is about the family physician and public health management specialist. For the ice hockey player, see Jonathan Quick.

Career

Quick has worked in international health since 1978.[4] From 1989 to 1991, he worked as a health service development advisor for the Afghanistan Health Sector Support Project.[4] From 1998 to 2004, he was director of Essential Drugs and Medicines Policy (EDM) for the World Health Organization (WHO) in Geneva.[4] From 2004 to 2017 he was president and chief executive officer at Management Sciences for Health (MSH), transitioning to Senior Fellow in January 2017.[5] He is a former chair of the Global Health Council,[1] and has been a faculty member at Harvard Medical School.[6] He is currently adjunct professor of global health at Duke University in North Carolina.[1][7]

In his book The End of Epidemics: The Looming Threat to Humanity and How to Stop It, Quick "prescribed measures by which the world could protect itself against devastating disease outbreaks of the likes of the 1918 flu".[1]

He graduated from Harvard College and University of Rochester.[8]

Publications

As sole author
  • Rhinos in the Rough: a Golfer's Guide to Kenya. Nairobi: Kenway, 1993. By Tina L. Quick, Jonathan D. Quick and Robert W. Burdick. ISBN 9966-46-466-2.
  • The End of Epidemics: the Looming Threat to Humanity and How to Stop It. New York: St. Martin's, 2018. ISBN 978-1250117779. With Bronwyn Fryer. With a foreword by David L. Heymann.

As contributor
  • The Financial Times Guide to Executive Health: Building Your Strengths, Managing Your Risks. London: Pearson Education, 2002. ISBN 978-0273654285. Co-author.
  • MDS-3: Managing Access to Medicines and Health Technologies. Management Sciences for Health, 2012.

References
  1. Spinney, Laura (1 March 2020). "Epidemics expert Jonathan Quick: 'The worst-case scenario for coronavirus is likely'". The Observer. ISSN 0029-7712. Retrieved 2020-03-01 – via www.theguardian.com.
  2. MacKenzie, Debora. "The End of Epidemics: It's all about the money". New Scientist. Retrieved 2020-03-01.
  3. Wadman, Meredith (30 January 2018). "Review: How to Achieve 'The End of Epidemics'". Wall Street Journal. ISSN 0099-9660. Retrieved 2020-03-01 – via www.wsj.com.
  4. "Jonathan Quick". WHO. Retrieved 2020-03-01.
  5. "January 2018". globalhealth.harvard.edu. Retrieved 2020-03-01.
  6. "A century ago, the Spanish flu killed 100 million people. Is a new pandemic on the way?". www.newstatesman.com. Retrieved 2020-03-01.
  7. "Jonathan D. Quick". Duke Global Health Institute. Retrieved 2020-03-01.
  8. https://www.who.int/medicines/areas/nextgen_essentialmeds/next_quick/en/
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