internist Georges Benjamin, MD, professorial lecturer at George Washington University School of Public Health and executive director of the American Public Health Association (www.apha.org), both in Washington, DC. He is former secretary of the Maryland Department of Health and Mental Hygiene and a leading expert in emergency preparedness.
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