Donald S. Burke is an expert on the prevention, diagnosis, and control of infectious diseases of global concern.
He is also the former associate vice chancellor for global health and director of the Center for Vaccine Research.
His research has spanned a wide range of scientific activities, including development of new diagnostics, field studies, clinical vaccine trials, computational modelling of epidemic control strategies, and health policy analysis.
He was previously involved in infectious diseases research for several U.S. government agencies, retiring from the U.S. Army Medical Corps as a Colonel after 23 years of service.
[4] Together with a number of other persons, in 2016 he proposed a World Serum Bank as a means of helping combat epidemics.