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Martin E. Hugh-Jones
Professor Emeritus
Phone: 225-578-5599
Fax: 225-578-4286
mehj@vetmed.lsu.edu |
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Education:
Vet. M.B. Cambridge University • M.A. Cambridge University • M.P.H. Tulane University • Ph.D. Cambridge University
Fellow, American College of Epidemiology
Deputy Director, WHO Collaborating Center for Remote Sensing & Geographic Information Systems for Public Health
Dr. Hugh-Jones has been with the department since 1978. In addition to his work as a faculty member, he was the Director of the World Health Organization (WHO) Collaborating Center for Remote Sensing and Geographic Information Systems for Public Health until June 2004. He is currently Deputy Director. The web site includes the contents of the World Anthrax Data Site (www.vetmed.lsu.edu/whocc/mp_world.htm), a resource that provides anthrax occurrence data for nearly 200 countries.
Research Interests
Dr. Hugh-Jones is one of the foremost authorities on anthrax. He is currently Coordinator of the World Health Organization (WHO) Working Group on Anthrax Research and Control. He also has served as Chairman of the WHO/Veterinary Public Health Working Group: “Anthrax: Epidemiology and Information.” In addition, Dr. Hugh-Jones participated in the investigation of the 1979 anthrax outbreak in Sverdlovsk (now known as Yekaterinburg) in the former USSR. He was in Moscow and Yekaterinburg in 1992 when the Russian government admitted the source of the outbreak to have been an accidental spore emission from a biological warfare facility.
Selected Publications
Price, L.B., M. Hugh-Jones, P.J. Jackson, et al. Genetic diversity in the protective antigen gene of Bacillus anthracis, Journal of Bacteriology, 1999, 181 (8): 2358-2362.
Turnbull, P.C.B., M.E. Hugh-Jones, & O. Cosivi, World Health Organization activities on anthrax surveillance and control, Journal of Applied Microbiology, 1999, 87: 318-320.
Hugh-Jones, M., F. Angulo, C. Ottorino, and R. Crom. “Future developments in information technology and availability in relation to Veterinary Public Health.” WHO—Future trends in Veterinary Public Health, Teramo, Italy, 1-5 March, 1999.
Hugh-Jones, M., A. Mantovani, and C. de Souza Mierelles. “Increased trends in population growth, international travel and urbanisation, climatic and other environmental changes and their implications in Veterinary Public Health.” WHO—Future trends in Veterinary Public Health, Teramo, Italy, 1-5 March, 1999.
Hugh-Jones, M. “ProMED-mail and the Internet.” Indications and warning of biological warfare use by terrorists: Workshop IV—Working with the Public Health Sector, MitreTek, McLean, VA, 12 April, 1999
Hugh-Jones, M. “Animal disease reports.” NATO—Advanced Research Workshop, Bucharest, Romania, 3-5 June, 1999.
Hugh-Jones, M.. “What and how we communicate.” Keynote Address, Society for Tropical Veterinary Medicine, 5th Biennial Conference, ‘Tropical Diseases: Control and Prevention in the Context of ‘The New World Order,'” Key West, Florida, June 12-16, 1999.
Price, L.B., Klevytska, A.M., Smith, K.L., Hugh-Jones, M., et al. “Molecular diversity in B. anthracis.” Second International Workshop on the Molecular Biology of Bacillus cereus, Bacillus anthracis and Bacillus thuringensis, Taos, New Mexico, August 11-13, 1999.
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