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Date: Thu, 3 Sep 1998 13:32:18 -0700 (PDT)
From: Chuck Woolery <[log in to unmask]>
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Subject: Great Loss (m)
Colleagues and friends –
Word is already circulating, but if you had not already heard I wanted to
let you know that Jonathan Mann and his wife, Mary Lou Clements, were on
the Swissair flight that went down over Nova Scotia last night.
We are all stunned and enormously sorrowed by their loss. Jonathan was a
unique energy in the fight against AIDS and the struggle for human rights
and dignity for all people. His intellect was matched by his enormous
heart and his willingness to take risks for the things he believed in and
the people he loved. I will miss him as a friend and as a constant
inspiration to moral action.
We here at the Council are looking for ways that we could suitably
memorialize Jonathan’s life and contributions to health and human rights,
and would appreciate your suggestions.
With deep sadness,
Nils Daulaire
President
National Council for International Health
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Dr. Jonathan Mann
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Since January 1, 1998, Dr. Jonathan Mann served as Dean of the School of
Public Health of the Allegheny University of the Health Sciences in
Philadelphia.
In 1990, Dr. Mann was appointed Professor of Epidemiology and International
Health at the Harvard School of Public Health. Subsequently, in 1993, he
was appointed the first Francois-Xavier Bagnoud Professor of Health and
Human Rights and founding Director of the Francois-Xavier Bagnoud Center
for Health and Human Rights at Harvard University.
>From 1986-90, Dr. Mann was founding director of the World Health
Organization's Global Program on AIDS, based in Geneva, Switzerland. From
1984-86, he founded and directed the Projet SIDA, a collaborative AIDS
research project based in Kinshasa, Zaire, and involving US Centers for
Disease Control and National Institutes of Health, the Institute of
Tropical Medicine (Antwerp, Belgium) and the Ministry of Health, Republic
of Zaire. Prior to working in Zaire, Dr. Mann was state epidemiologist and
assistant director of the health department in New Mexico. From 1975-77,
he was an Epidemic Intelligence Service Officer with the Centers for
Disease Control.
Dr. Mann received his B.A. (magna cum laude in history) from Harvard
College, his M.D. from Washington University at St. Louis (1974) and his
M.P.H. from the Harvard School of Public Health (1980).
Dr. Mann was a member of the Institute of Medicine (National Academy of
Sciences) and a fellow of the American College of Epidemiology. He was
also the President of Doctors of the World, the US affiliate of the French
medical humanitarian relief organization, Medecins du Monde. He was the
Chairman of the Global AIDS Policy Coalition, and independent research and
advocacy organization, and senior editor of its books, AIDS in the World
(Harvard University Press, 1992) and AIDS in the World II (Oxford
University Press, 1996).
Dr. Mann's work focused on health and human rights, including the effect
of health policies on human rights, the health impacts of human rights
violations, and the inextricable connection between promoting and
protecting health and human rights.
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Dr. Mary-Lou Clements-Mann, MD, MPH
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Dr. Mary-Lou Clements-Mann was a Professor at the Johns Hopkins Univ.
School of Public Health. She was founder and first Director, of the Center
for Immunization Research at Johns Hopkins University, and was a Principal
investigator in the National Institutes of Health AIDS Vaccine Evaluation
Unit network.
Dr. Clements-Mann had extensive experience in the clinical R&D of vaccines
for other human diseases, too. She was a member of the World
Health Organization's steering committee for HIV vaccine development, a
member of the CDC Advisory Committee on Immunization Practice, and a member
of the Institute of Medicine Committee on the Children's Vaccine Initiative.
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