Background
Heymann, David L. was born in 1946 in Pennsylvania, United States.
Heymann, David L. was born in 1946 in Pennsylvania, United States.
Bachelor, Pennsylvania State University. Doctor of Medicine, Wake Forest University School Medicine. Diploma in tropical medicine & hygiene, London School Hygiene & Tropical Medicine.
General medical officer United States Public Health Service, 1971—1974. Medical officer World Health Organization Smallpox Eradication Program, India, 1974—1976. Medical epidemiologist in sub-Saharan Africa United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 1976—1989.
Chief of research activities, global program on Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome World Health Organization, director program on emerging & other communicable diseases, executive director communicable diseases, 1998—2003, director-general's special representative for polio eradication, since 2003.
Member of Institute Medicine.
Married; 3 children.