This is the talk page for discussing improvements to the David L. Heymann article. This is not a forum for general discussion of the article's subject. |
Article policies
|
Find sources: Google (books · news · scholar · free images · WP refs) · FENS · JSTOR · TWL |
This article must adhere to the biographies of living persons (BLP) policy, even if it is not a biography, because it contains material about living persons. Contentious material about living persons that is unsourced or poorly sourced must be removed immediately from the article and its talk page, especially if potentially libellous. If such material is repeatedly inserted, or if you have other concerns, please report the issue to this noticeboard.If you are a subject of this article, or acting on behalf of one, and you need help, please see this help page. |
This article is rated Stub-class on Wikipedia's content assessment scale. It is of interest to multiple WikiProjects. |
||||||||||||||
|
The following Wikipedia contributor may be personally or professionally connected to the subject of this article. Relevant policies and guidelines may include conflict of interest, autobiography, and neutral point of view. |
Hello fellow Wikipedians,
I have just modified one external link on David L. Heymann. Please take a moment to review my edit. If you have any questions, or need the bot to ignore the links, or the page altogether, please visit this simple FaQ for additional information. I made the following changes:
When you have finished reviewing my changes, you may follow the instructions on the template below to fix any issues with the URLs.
This message was posted before February 2018. After February 2018, "External links modified" talk page sections are no longer generated or monitored by InternetArchiveBot. No special action is required regarding these talk page notices, other than regular verification using the archive tool instructions below. Editors have permission to delete these "External links modified" talk page sections if they want to de-clutter talk pages, but see the RfC before doing mass systematic removals. This message is updated dynamically through the template ((source check))
(last update: 18 January 2022).
Cheers.—InternetArchiveBot (Report bug) 04:18, 6 September 2017 (UTC)
This edit request by an editor with a conflict of interest was declined. Per WP:INTEGRITY. |
Edit request
|
---|
Please remove: "Before joining WHO, Heymann worked for 13 years as a medical epidemiologist in sub-Saharan Africa on assignment from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). He also worked in India for two years as a medical epidemiologist in the WHO Smallpox Eradication Programme, where smallpox was eradicated in 1978. Heymann also took an active role in the first Ebola outbreak in 1976, and led the response team during the 1995 Kikwit outbreak. In 2003, Heymann was at the forefront of the SARS epidemic, working with his team to mediate international effort to halt the pandemic." Explanation of issue: proposed text for Early Career covers the ground but gives more detail and beyond-resume insight, providing better context for the later work described elsewhere. Please ADD new section after Education called "Early Career" and ADD as text in that section: He has spent much of his life tracking infectious diseases across the globe, participating in campaigns to stamp out old diseases from smallpox to poliomyelitis, investigating the emergence of new ones from Ebola and AIDS to SARS and battling long-time foes such as tuberculosis and malaria, as well as training epidemiologists in developing countries around the world. He joined the World Health Organization's Smallpox Eradication Programme in India as a medical epidemiologist in in 1974, overseeing the containment of the last cases of the disease. He was involved in investigating the first outbreak of Legionnaire’s disease before heading to Africa, where he spent 13 years on assignment from the CDC. He was a member of the international team that investigated the first outbreak of Ebola haemorrhagic fever in Democratic Republic of Congo (then referred to as Zaire) in 1976, the second outbreak of Ebola in in 1977 in Tandala, and in 1995, on secondment to the World Health Organization (WHO) from CDC, directed the international response to the Ebola outbreak in Kikwit. His studies on the virus over a five-year period from 1980 -1985 demonstrated that Ebola emerges periodically and that if patients are rapidly isolated, its emergence does not usually spark an outbreak, indicating that the virus crosses the species barrier more frequently than is detected. A 1997 PBS documentary “The Coming Plague” followed him as he hunted the reservoir of the Ebola virus in the forests of the Ivory Coast. While based in Cameroon (1977-1980) he studied yaws in pygmies and the epidemiology of human monkeypox in West and Central Africa, and as chief epidemiologist for Malawi (1983-1988) he developed the in-vivo methodology for determining prevalence of antimalarial resistance that has become one of the current international standards. References supporting change: https://www.who.int/ihr/procedures/zika-ec-biographies/en/ https://www.nature.com/news/ebola-learn-from-the-past-1.16117 https://www.worldcat.org/title/coming-plague/oclc/41300244 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3322938/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15040202 |
EMMALROSS EMMALROSS (talk) 13:51, 14 January 2020 (UTC)
Request edit examples
|
---|
In the example above there are three references provided for the stated claims. But the text does not indicate, through the use of ref tags, which reference applies to which claim. Your edit request similarly does not provide ref tags indicating which source goes where. The links between material and their source references must be clearly made, as shown in the next example below:
In the example above the links between the provided references and their claim statements are perfectly clear. |
This edit request by an editor with a conflict of interest was declined. The request was not specific enough. |
Please consider ADDING at the start of the article: (Reason: Updates with information relevant to COVID-19 outbreak)
Extended content
|
---|
David L Heymann (born 1946) is a London-based American infectious disease epidemiologist and public health expert known for leading the global response to the SARS (Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome) outbreak;[1],[2] being among a cadre of ‘disease detectives’ dispatched around the world to fight emerging infectious diseases and shut down outbreaks;[3],[4] and for championing and spearheading reforms to the global health security architecture.[5],[6] He has spent much of his life tracking infectious diseases across the globe, participating in campaigns to stamp out old diseases from smallpox to poliomyelitis, investigating the emergence of new ones from AIDS to Ebola and battling long-time foes such as tuberculosis and malaria, as well as training epidemiologists in developing countries around the world.[7] After leading the successful global response to the SARS outbreak in 2003,[8],[9] he was appointed the World Health Organization’s (WHO’s) first Assistant Director-General for Health Security in 2007 and authored the watershed World Health Report on Global Public Health Security in the 21st Century.[10] Since retiring from WHO in 2009 he has led several WHO advisory committees on emerging infectious disease threats, including the Zika virus and the COVID-19 outbreak.[11],[12] He currently chairs WHO’s Strategic and Technical Advisory Group for Infectious Hazards.[13] The approach he devised in 2003 to combat SARS to bring unprecedented global technical collaboration to the effort through three virtual networks of the world’s leading disease detectives, public health experts and laboratory scientists,[14] is at the forefront of the WHO’s efforts to accelerate control the COVID-19 outbreaks.[15]
Please REMOVE end of current para 5 and para 6: “In 2003, Heymann was at the forefront of the SARS epidemic, working with his team to mediate international effort to halt the pandemic. For his work in public health, Heymann is regarded as one of the "Disease Cowboys". (Reason: to avoid repetition in accommodating the proposed additions - already covered in the proposed additions) References
|
thanks EMMALROSS (talk) 21:04, 23 February 2020 (UTC)
Regards, Spintendo 11:42, 25 February 2020 (UTC)
This edit request by an editor with a conflict of interest has now been answered. |
Apologies, but I do not know how to REPLY inline to the queries on "participating", "led" and "leading," so am addressing here. Am also including wikilinks where I can, as requested by @spintendo. I didn't think I had to repost the whole requested edit above here again, but am sure someone will tell me if I've done this wrong again!
1. Re "participating" - how and in what way varied. For Smallpox - As a medical epidemiologist (1974-1976) in the World Health Organization - Operational History - 1958, 1967 Smallpox - Eradication section - 4th paragraph Eradication Programme in India, led by Donald Henderson. [1] (hopefully, the wikilinks together with this URL should address the issue) Polio: early – as Chief of the Epidemiology Service at the [[Organisation pour la Coordination de la Lutte contre les Endemies en Afrique Centrale]] (OCEAC), Cameroon (1977 – 1980). AND Polio: later - as Representative of the WHO Director-General for Polio Eradication (2003-2007), ie head of the Global Polio Eradication Initiative [2] [1] (bottom of this referenced journal article, the "biographies" section) See also: [3] for more verification of both of those. If "participating" is not acceptable, would "working for" be more acceptable?
2. Re "Leading": He led the global SARS [Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome] response as Executive Director of the WHO Communicable Diseases Cluster (July 1998-July 2003). (There is no wikilink for this, as this title does not exist any more, as WHO changes the structure of its departments, clusters and job titles frequently and the structure today is different. The WHO article does not drill down to the cluster level in describing the structure of the organization, or even then assistant director-general level, let alone include terms of reference for those jobs. This is why I provided the reference of the journal article below, which identifies him with this title under a photograph of him at the beginning of the article. It is also mentioned on this WHO webpage, where a WHO bio of him mentions this title and others mentioned in this edit request: [4] And several of the references submitted with the edit request verify that he "led" the global-level response. I am not sure what else I can reasonably do on this. Please advise whether this is acceptable. More references can be added, but they will show the same or similar - maybe "coordinated the global-level response to SARS" would be more acceptable?). Regarding "in what way" he led on this, he coordinated the international response, as that's WHO's role and the remit of the exec director of the communicable diseases cluster at the time.[2]
3. Re "led": In para 4 of the requested edits proposed earlier, please change the word "led" to "chaired" and the rest of the paragraph as follows, so that this paragraph reads, "Since retiring from WHO in 2009 he has chaired several WHO advisory committees on emerging infectious disease threats, including the International Health Regulations (2005) Emergency Committee on Zika virus and observed increase in neurological disorders and neonatal malformations, [3] and the Strategic and Technical Advisory Group for Infectious Hazards.[4], which advises the WHO Emergencies Programme on the COVID-19 epidemic and the Ebola outbreak in Democratic Republic of Congo.[5]
thanks EMMALROSS (talk) 18:44, 28 February 2020 (UTC)
References
((request edit))
template's answer parameter to read from |ans=yes
to |ans=no
. Thank you! Regards, Spintendo 20:41, 28 February 2020 (UTC)References
several key factors are required for a successful public health response to an outbreak of a new infection. These factors include understanding of transmissibility and risk populations; establishing the natural history of infection, including incubation period and mortality rate; identifying and characterising the causative organism; and, in some instances, epidemiological modelling to suggest effective prevention and control measures. This information can be collected from those working at outbreak sites virtually linked with WHO.
understanding of transmissibility and risk populations. I would ask, in what way did the subject accomplish this understanding of tranmissibility and risk populations. The subject/Ms. McCall state another "how" as
epidemiological modelling to suggest effective prevention and control measures. I would ask in what way did the subject produce epidemiological modeling to suggest effective prevention and control measures.
References
If the claim was reworded to state that "According to the Heinz Family Foundation, the subject was given their award based on the Foundation's appraisal of their work in such and such areas...." then it would be acceptable because the Heinz Family Foundation is reliable for statements about them and their awards — specifically — who the awards are given to, and the reasons for giving them the award, according to the Foundation. But they are not a WP:RS for any direct assertions made about the overall leadership capabilities of others.[a] Regards, Spintendo 10:35, 1 March 2020 (UTC)
Notes