May 2017
Gilberto Hochman (right) and Donald Henderson.
Donald A. Henderson, a U.S. physician and epidemiologist, headed the World Health Organization’s Smallpox Eradication Program from 1966 to 1977. The program famously succeeded, and the global eradication of smallpox was announced on May 8, 1980.
In this interview, Henderson talks about the endemic nature of smallpox in Brazil, the relations between WHO, the Pan American Health Organization, and the Brazilian government, international cooperation in eradicating smallpox and the various strategies applied.
The interview with Donald A. Henderson was conducted by Gilberto Hochman (Casa de Oswaldo Cruz) and Steven Palmer (University of Windsor), in Baltimore, United States, on November 11, 2008 and was published in Manguinhos in 2010, in the Dossier Smallpox.
Read in Manguinhos about smallpox:
Hochman, Gilberto and Palmer, Steven Smallpox eradication and Brazil: an interview with Donald A. Henderson. Hist. cienc. saude-Manguinhos, 2010, vol.17, no.3, p.759-775. ISSN 0104-5970
Palmer, Steven, Hochman, Gilberto and Arbex, Danieli. Smallpox eradication, laboratory visits, and a touch of tourism: travel notes of a Canadian scientist in Brazil. Hist. cienc. saude-Manguinhos, 2010, vol.17, no.3, p.777-790. ISSN 0104-5970
Agostoni, Claudia. Control, contención y educación higiénica en las campañas de vacunación contra la viruela en México durante la década de 1940. Hist. cienc. saude-Manguinhos, Jun 2015, vol.22, no.2, p.355-370. ISSN 0104-5970
Soumonni, Elisée. Disease, religion and medicine: smallpox in nineteenth-century Benin. Hist. cienc. saude-Manguinhos, Dec 2012, vol.19, suppl.1, p.35-45. ISSN 0104-5970
Bhattacharya, Sanjoy. Struggling to a monumental triumph: re-assessing the final phases of the smallpox eradication program in India, 1960-1980. Hist. cienc. saude-Manguinhos, Dec 2007, vol.14, no.4, p.1113-1129. ISSN 0104-5970
