Jonathan D. Quick
{{Short description|Family physician and public health management specialist}}
{{about|the family physician and public health management specialist|the ice hockey player|Jonathan Quick}}
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Jonathan D. Quick is a family physician and public health management specialist that focuses on global health security.{{cite news|first1=Laura|last1=Spinney|access-date=2020-03-01|title=Epidemics expert Jonathan Quick: 'The worst-case scenario for coronavirus is likely'|url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/mar/01/the-worst-case-scenario-for-coronavirus-dr-jonathan-quick-q-and-a-laura-spinney|newspaper=The Observer|date=1 March 2020|issn=0029-7712|via=www.theguardian.com}} 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.{{cite web|first1=Debora|last1=MacKenzie|access-date=2020-03-01|title=The End of Epidemics: It's all about the money|url=https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg23731720-900-the-end-of-epidemics-its-all-about-the-money/|website=New Scientist}}{{cite news|first1=Meredith|last1=Wadman|access-date=2020-03-01|title=Review: How to Achieve 'The End of Epidemics'|url=https://www.wsj.com/articles/review-how-to-achieve-the-end-of-epidemics-1517270479|newspaper=Wall Street Journal|date=30 January 2018|issn=0099-9660|via=www.wsj.com}}
Career
Quick has worked in international health since 1978.{{cite web|access-date=2020-03-01|title=Jonathan Quick|url=https://www.who.int/medicines/areas/nextgen_essentialmeds/next_quick/en/|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141021220044/http://www.who.int/medicines/areas/nextgen_essentialmeds/next_quick/en/|url-status=dead|archive-date=October 21, 2014|website=WHO}} From 1989 to 1991, he worked as a health service development advisor for the Afghanistan Health Sector Support Project. From 1998 to 2004, he was director of Essential Drugs and Medicines Policy (EDM) for the World Health Organization (WHO) in Geneva. From 2004 to 2017 he was president and chief executive officer at Management Sciences for Health (MSH), transitioning to Senior Fellow in January 2017.{{cite web|access-date=2020-03-01|title=January 2018|url=https://globalhealth.harvard.edu/january-2018|website=globalhealth.harvard.edu|archive-date=2020-03-01|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200301184626/https://globalhealth.harvard.edu/january-2018|url-status=dead}} He is a former chair of the Global Health Council, and has been a faculty member at Harvard Medical School.{{cite web|access-date=2020-03-01|title=A century ago, the Spanish flu killed 100 million people. Is a new pandemic on the way?|url=https://www.newstatesman.com/politics/uk/2018/04/century-ago-spanish-flu-killed-100-million-people-new-pandemic-way|website=www.newstatesman.com|date=21 April 2018 }} He is currently adjunct professor of global health at Duke University in North Carolina.{{cite web|access-date=2020-03-01|title=Jonathan D. Quick|url=https://globalhealth.duke.edu/people/faculty/jonathan-d-quick|website=Duke Global Health Institute|archive-date=2020-03-01|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200301184626/https://globalhealth.duke.edu/people/faculty/jonathan-d-quick|url-status=dead}}
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".
He graduated from Harvard College and University of Rochester.{{Cite web|url=https://www.who.int/medicines/areas/nextgen_essentialmeds/next_quick/en/|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141021220044/http://www.who.int/medicines/areas/nextgen_essentialmeds/next_quick/en/|url-status=dead|archive-date=October 21, 2014|title=WHO | Jonathan Quick}}
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
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External links
- {{Twitter|jonoquick}}
- [https://www.endofepidemics.com Website for the book The End of Epidemics: The Looming Threat to Humanity and How to Stop It]
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Category:American public health doctors
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