THE THOMAS FRANCIS, JR. MEDAL IN GLOBAL PUBLIC HEALTH

Related Links

U-M Links

• School of Public Health
  • SPH Historical Timeline
  • SPH Centers and Initiatives
  • SPH Event Press Release
• U-M Health System
  • Post-Polio Syndrome
  • Health Minute: Polio a thing of the past? Not if you suffer from its late effects
  • PRESS RELEASE: January 2003. U-M study takes closer look at polio’s lifelong effects
  • PRESS RELEASE: October 2004. Nationwide U-M study on polio and menopause
  • Polio Exhibit from the Center for the History of Medicine
• The Bentley Historical Library
  • A Guide to Polio and Salk Vaccine Resources at the Bentley
  • U-M Alumni Association Polio Photos and stories

External Links

• Centers for Disease Control
  • Article: Preventing polio from becoming a reemerging disease
  • Global polio eradication
  • Health topic: polio
• March of Dimes
  • From Polio to Prematurity: The Mission Marches On
• Post-Polio Health International
  Information for polio survivors and their friends and families
• Polio and Post-Polio Syndrome
  Information from Medline Plus, a service of the National Institutes of Health and the US National Library of Medicine
• THE END OF POLIO: Photographs by Sebastião Salgado
  Brazilian photographer Sebastião Salgado tells the story of third-world efforts to eradicate polio through powerful photos
• University of Pittsburgh: Remembering Polio
• UNICEF
  • Global immunization programs for children
• Rotary
  • PolioPlus: Eradicating Polio Worldwide
  • Rotary Foundation
• Polio Eradication Organization
• World Health Organization
• Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation
  • Global health
  • PRESS RELEASE: February 2005. Gates Foundation funds new polio vaccine
  • William Foege announcement
• Salk Institute
  • Biography of Dr. Salk
• Sabin Vaccine Institute
• Smithsonian Institution
  • Smithsonian Magazine: Mission Impossible?