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John P. Woodall

December 18, 2023

John Payne Woodall (1935–2016), known as Jack Woodall, was an American-British entomologist and virologist who made significant contributions to the study of arboviruses in South America, the Caribbean and Africa. He did research on the causative agents of dengue fever, Crimean–Congo hemorrhagic fever, o'nyong'nyong fever, yellow fever, Zika fever, and others.

John P. Woodall
Born
John Payne Woodall

1935
Tianjin, China
Died24 October 2016
London
NationalityAmerican
British
EducationLondon School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
Scientific career
FieldsVirology, Entomology

He served as a staff member of the Rockefeller Foundation, and director of the Foundation's laboratory in Brazil, as a research fellow at the Yale Arbovirus Research Unit, was head of the Arbovirus Laboratory for the New York State Health Department, and worked for the Centers for Disease Control. Woodall spent 13 years at the World Health Organization developing and evaluating health programs.

After retirement in 2007, he continued as a consultant and professor at the Institute of Medical Biochemistry in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, where he had worked since 1998. In 1994, he cofounded the Program for Monitoring Emerging Diseases (ProMED-mail). Woodall's emails concluded with a quote from the Calvin and Hobbes cartoon, "God put me on this earth to accomplish a certain number of things. Right now I'm so far behind I will never die."[1]

Early life and education edit

Woodall was born in Tianjin on the coast of China of British parents.[2] He was in the third generation of a British family who first went to China as missionaries. His father was headmaster of the International/British School in Tianjin. When the Japanese occupied the International Settlement and the French Concession portions of Shanghai and the concessions in Tianjin after the attack on Pearl Harbor on 7 December 1941, he and his parents were interned in a prisoner of war camp similar to that portrayed in the novel Empire of the Sun, by J. G. Ballard, and film of the same name. He became interested in insects while wandering in weedy ground around the camp, where he and his family were interned until the end of the war in 1945.

Woodall attended Bedford School and Clare College, Cambridge. After graduating from the University of Cambridge, he obtained a PhD in virology and entomology at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. He visited Brazil as a member of the Cambridge University Amazon Expedition of 1954.

Research and career edit

Arbovirology edit

Woodall had over 30 years of experience isolating and characterizing viruses from humans, wildlife and arboviral vectors (mosquitoes, ticks) in Africa, the Caribbean and Latin America.[3] His first post was as senior scientist for Her Majesty's Overseas Research Service, at the East African Virus Research Institute in Entebbe, Uganda. Woodall and two colleagues first isolated a virus they called the Congo virus,[4] which was later identified as identical to a virus isolated by Soviet scientists in Crimea. The Soviets did not publish their findings until after the group in Africa. The disease was officially named the Crimean–Congo hemorrhagic fever virus at the insistence of the Soviets, despite violation of the principle of priority of publication, an event that Woodall noted was maybe the only instance of viral nomenclature overruled by politics and the Cold War.[5]

At the Entebbe Lab, Woodall and a colleague made the first isolation of the o'nyong'nyong virus in 1959 during a large outbreak of a disease that appeared initially to be either dengue or chikungunya fever.[6][7] They later found evidence that the presence of o'nyong'nyong fever seemed to affect the development of the malaria parasite, reducing malaria transmission rates.[8] The o'nyong'nyong virus and the malarial parasite share a common vector, two species of anopheline mosquitoes. Woodall also conducted early research on the Zika virus in the early 1960s,[9] about the time the virus was being confirmed as a cause of human disease.[10][11]

Woodall worked next at the Rockefeller Foundation, receiving additional training in 1963 and then later becoming director of the Foundation's Belém Virus Laboratory, where he oversaw the documentation of the distribution of arboviruses of Brazil, discovered new viruses and conducted research on yellow fever. While at Rockefeller, Woodall became a United States citizen.[12] Woodall then moved to the Foundation's Yale Arbovirus Research Unit, where he continued work with the data gathered in Brazil.[13] After completing that research, he became head of the arbovirus laboratory of the New York State Department of Health Laboratories in Albany. In 1975 he went to work for the CDC, directing the San Juan Laboratory in Puerto Rico, a branch of the CDC's Division of Vector-Borne Infectious Diseases.

World Health Organization and Biodefense edit

Woodall worked at WHO in Geneva for 13 years. He traveled extensively as a team leader, assisting with the improvement of health laboratories, health services management, primary health care and health financing.[14] He introduced WHO programs against AIDS in four African countries. At WHO he first became involved in the control of chemical and biological weapons, cofounding Task Force Scorpio, a United Nations rapid response team formed during the first Gulf War and then disbanded. Woodall called for re-funding of Task Force Scorpio and the Global Outbreak Alert and Response Network following the failures in the response to the Ebola epidemic in West Africa.[15] In 2004, Woodall became a member of the Biological Weapons Working Group of the Center for Arms Control and Non-Proliferation. He was on the editorial advisory board of the Journal of Medical Chemical, Biological and Radiological Defense. In 1994, Woodall retired from WHO and returned to the New York State Department of Health.

Program for Monitoring Emerging Diseases edit

Woodall cofounded the Program for Monitoring Emerging Diseases (ProMED-mail) in 1994.[16] He built ProMED-mail from its original 40 members to over 80,000 by 2016.[17] One of his last series of posts was on the yellow fever outbreak in Angola. Eleven cases exported to China were the first occurrence of yellow fever in Asia in history. Woodall warned that spread of the disease to Asia would make "the Ebola and Zika epidemics look like picnics in the park!" Woodall and colleagues proposed the idea of using a fractional dose of the vaccine to extend existing supplies, which were insufficient to meet the needs of a vaccination campaign in Angola and DR Congo.[18][19]

In 1998, he returned to Brazil as visiting professor and director of the Nucleus for the Investigation of Emerging Infectious Diseases at the Institute of Medical Biochemistry, Center for Health Sciences, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.[20] He retired in 2007, but remained as a consultant and professor. In 2016, he was given the Richard M. Taylor Award by the American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene.[21]

Woodall was one of the leaders and autonomous pro bono team of the One Health Initiative, a collaborative effort toward optimizing the health of people and animals, and the environment.[22]

Publications edit

Woodall published numerous articles in peer-reviewed scientific journals, wrote for the lay press, edited newsletters, and appeared on TV. He served on the editorial advisory board and was a columnist for The Scientist.[23] He was co-editor of the Atlas of Human Infectious Diseases, published in 2012.[24]

See also edit

List of London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine people

References edit

  1. ^ "Jack Woodall, a pioneer in disease surveillance, dies at 81". STAT. 25 October 2016.
  2. ^ "Obituary: John Payne (Jack) Woodall, Co-founder of ProMED-mail (2016-10-27)". promedmail.org. Retrieved 10 December 2016.
  3. ^ Calisher, Charles H (2013). Lifting the impenetrable veil : from yellow fever to Ebola hemorrhagic fever and SARS (1st ed.). Red Feather Lakes, Colo.: Rockpile Press. ISBN 978-0-615-82773-5.
  4. ^ Woodall, JP; Williams, MC; Simpson, DI (February 1967). "Congo virus: a hitherto undescribed virus occurring in Africa. II. Identification studies". East African Medical Journal. 44 (2): 93–8. PMID 6068614.
  5. ^ Ergonul, edited by Onder; Whitehouse, Chris A. (2007). "Personal Reflections, Jack Woodall", Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever : a global perspective (1. ed.). Berlin: Springer. ISBN 978-1-4020-6105-9. {{cite book}}: |first1= has generic name (help)
  6. ^ Williams, M.C.; Woodall, J.P. (March 1961). "O'nyong-nyong fever: An epidemic virus disease in East Africa". Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene. 55 (2): 135–141. doi:10.1016/0035-9203(61)90017-7. PMID 13785469.
  7. ^ Haddow, A.J.; Davies, C.W.; Walker, A.J. (November 1960). "O'nyong-nyong fever: An epidemic virus disease in East Africa 1. Introduction". Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene. 54 (6): 517–522. doi:10.1016/0035-9203(60)90025-0.
  8. ^ DE ZULUETA, J; WOODALL, JP; CULLEN, JR; WILLIAMS, MC; KAFUKO, GW; GILLETT, JD (1962). "An observation on the possible effect of O'Nyong-Nyong fever on malaria". Bulletin of the World Health Organization. 26 (1): 135–9. PMC 2555652. PMID 13884603.
  9. ^ Haddow, AJ; Williams, MC; Woodall, JP; Simpson, DI; Goma, LK (1964). "Twelve isolations of Zika virus from Aedes (Stegomyia) africanus (Theobald) taken in and above a Uganda forest". Bulletin of the World Health Organization. 31 (1): 57–69. PMC 2555143. PMID 14230895.
  10. ^ "Zika's long, strange trip into the limelight". Science | AAAS. 8 February 2016. Retrieved 10 December 2016.
  11. ^ Wikan, Nitwara; Smith, Duncan R (January 2017). "First published report of Zika virus infection in people: Simpson, not MacNamara". The Lancet Infectious Diseases. 17 (1): 15–17. doi:10.1016/S1473-3099(16)30525-4. PMID 27998553.
  12. ^ "Obituary: John Payne (Jack) Woodall, Co-founder of ProMED-mail (2016-10-27". promedmail.org. Retrieved 10 December 2016.
  13. ^ "Jack Woodall Profile". in. Retrieved 10 December 2016.
  14. ^ "Professor John (Jack) Woodall | London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine | LSHTM". www.lshtm.ac.uk. Retrieved 10 December 2016.
  15. ^ Woodall, J (8 February 2016). "WHO reform: bring back GOARN and Task Force 'Scorpio'". Infection Ecology & Epidemiology. 6: 30237. doi:10.3402/iee.v6.30237. PMC 4748086. PMID 26860977.
  16. ^ Bulkeley, William (31 July 1997). "Tracking Disease Hot Zones on the Net: A Watchdog's Warnings". The Wall Street Journal.
  17. ^ "Jack Woodall, 81, the James Bond of animal/human disease prevention". Animals 24-7. 30 October 2016. Retrieved 23 November 2016.
  18. ^ Monath, TP; Woodall, JP; Gubler, DJ; Yuill, TM; Mackenzie, JS; Martins, RM; Reiter, P; Heymann, DL (16 April 2016). "Yellow fever vaccine supply: a possible solution". Lancet. 387 (10028): 1599–600. doi:10.1016/s0140-6736(16)30195-7. PMID 27116054. S2CID 13106004.
  19. ^ Calisher, CH; Woodall, JP (October 2016). "Yellow Fever-More a Policy and Planning Problem than a Biological One". Emerging Infectious Diseases. 22 (10): 1859–60. doi:10.3201/eid2210.160875. PMC 5038394. PMID 27479749.
  20. ^ "Professor John (Jack) Woodall | London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine | LSHTM". www.lshtm.ac.uk. Retrieved 28 November 2016.
  21. ^ "Obituary: John Payne (Jack) Woodall, Co-founder of ProMED-mail 2016-10-27 21:25:51". promedmail.org. International Society for Infectious Diseases. Retrieved 18 December 2016.
  22. ^ Yamada, Akio; Kahn, Laura H.; Kaplan, Bruce; Monath, Thomas P.; Woodall, Jack; Conti, Lisa (19 November 2014). Confronting Emerging Zoonoses: The One Health Paradigm. Springer. ISBN 9784431551201.
  23. ^ "Patient Zero exonerated, Jack Woodall dies, Zika-fighting skeeter | The Scientist Magazine". The Scientist. Retrieved 10 December 2016.
  24. ^ Wertheim, Heiman F. L; Horby, Peter; Woodall, John P, eds. (26 March 2012). Atlas of Human Infectious Diseases. doi:10.1002/9781444354690. ISBN 9781444354690. Retrieved 10 December 2016.

External links edit

  • "Supercourse: Epidemiology, the Internet and Global Health". University of Pittsburgh. Retrieved 29 March 2016.
  • "YELLOW FEVER in ASIA". Supercourse. University of Pittsburgh. Retrieved 29 March 2016.
  • . Archived from the original on 21 May 2020. Retrieved 18 December 2016.

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John Payne Woodall 1935 2016 known as Jack Woodall was an American British entomologist and virologist who made significant contributions to the study of arboviruses in South America the Caribbean and Africa He did research on the causative agents of dengue fever Crimean Congo hemorrhagic fever o nyong nyong fever yellow fever Zika fever and others John P WoodallWoodall at the first International Conference on Emerging Infectious Diseases in 1998BornJohn Payne Woodall1935Tianjin ChinaDied24 October 2016LondonNationalityAmericanBritishEducationLondon School of Hygiene amp Tropical MedicineScientific careerFieldsVirology EntomologyHe served as a staff member of the Rockefeller Foundation and director of the Foundation s laboratory in Brazil as a research fellow at the Yale Arbovirus Research Unit was head of the Arbovirus Laboratory for the New York State Health Department and worked for the Centers for Disease Control Woodall spent 13 years at the World Health Organization developing and evaluating health programs After retirement in 2007 he continued as a consultant and professor at the Institute of Medical Biochemistry in Rio de Janeiro Brazil where he had worked since 1998 In 1994 he cofounded the Program for Monitoring Emerging Diseases ProMED mail Woodall s emails concluded with a quote from the Calvin and Hobbes cartoon God put me on this earth to accomplish a certain number of things Right now I m so far behind I will never die 1 Contents 1 Early life and education 2 Research and career 2 1 Arbovirology 2 2 World Health Organization and Biodefense 2 3 Program for Monitoring Emerging Diseases 2 4 Publications 3 See also 4 References 5 External linksEarly life and education editWoodall was born in Tianjin on the coast of China of British parents 2 He was in the third generation of a British family who first went to China as missionaries His father was headmaster of the International British School in Tianjin When the Japanese occupied the International Settlement and the French Concession portions of Shanghai and the concessions in Tianjin after the attack on Pearl Harbor on 7 December 1941 he and his parents were interned in a prisoner of war camp similar to that portrayed in the novel Empire of the Sun by J G Ballard and film of the same name He became interested in insects while wandering in weedy ground around the camp where he and his family were interned until the end of the war in 1945 Woodall attended Bedford School and Clare College Cambridge After graduating from the University of Cambridge he obtained a PhD in virology and entomology at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine He visited Brazil as a member of the Cambridge University Amazon Expedition of 1954 Research and career editArbovirology edit Woodall had over 30 years of experience isolating and characterizing viruses from humans wildlife and arboviral vectors mosquitoes ticks in Africa the Caribbean and Latin America 3 His first post was as senior scientist for Her Majesty s Overseas Research Service at the East African Virus Research Institute in Entebbe Uganda Woodall and two colleagues first isolated a virus they called the Congo virus 4 which was later identified as identical to a virus isolated by Soviet scientists in Crimea The Soviets did not publish their findings until after the group in Africa The disease was officially named the Crimean Congo hemorrhagic fever virus at the insistence of the Soviets despite violation of the principle of priority of publication an event that Woodall noted was maybe the only instance of viral nomenclature overruled by politics and the Cold War 5 At the Entebbe Lab Woodall and a colleague made the first isolation of the o nyong nyong virus in 1959 during a large outbreak of a disease that appeared initially to be either dengue or chikungunya fever 6 7 They later found evidence that the presence of o nyong nyong fever seemed to affect the development of the malaria parasite reducing malaria transmission rates 8 The o nyong nyong virus and the malarial parasite share a common vector two species of anopheline mosquitoes Woodall also conducted early research on the Zika virus in the early 1960s 9 about the time the virus was being confirmed as a cause of human disease 10 11 Woodall worked next at the Rockefeller Foundation receiving additional training in 1963 and then later becoming director of the Foundation s Belem Virus Laboratory where he oversaw the documentation of the distribution of arboviruses of Brazil discovered new viruses and conducted research on yellow fever While at Rockefeller Woodall became a United States citizen 12 Woodall then moved to the Foundation s Yale Arbovirus Research Unit where he continued work with the data gathered in Brazil 13 After completing that research he became head of the arbovirus laboratory of the New York State Department of Health Laboratories in Albany In 1975 he went to work for the CDC directing the San Juan Laboratory in Puerto Rico a branch of the CDC s Division of Vector Borne Infectious Diseases World Health Organization and Biodefense edit Woodall worked at WHO in Geneva for 13 years He traveled extensively as a team leader assisting with the improvement of health laboratories health services management primary health care and health financing 14 He introduced WHO programs against AIDS in four African countries At WHO he first became involved in the control of chemical and biological weapons cofounding Task Force Scorpio a United Nations rapid response team formed during the first Gulf War and then disbanded Woodall called for re funding of Task Force Scorpio and the Global Outbreak Alert and Response Network following the failures in the response to the Ebola epidemic in West Africa 15 In 2004 Woodall became a member of the Biological Weapons Working Group of the Center for Arms Control and Non Proliferation He was on the editorial advisory board of the Journal of Medical Chemical Biological and Radiological Defense In 1994 Woodall retired from WHO and returned to the New York State Department of Health Program for Monitoring Emerging Diseases edit Woodall cofounded the Program for Monitoring Emerging Diseases ProMED mail in 1994 16 He built ProMED mail from its original 40 members to over 80 000 by 2016 17 One of his last series of posts was on the yellow fever outbreak in Angola Eleven cases exported to China were the first occurrence of yellow fever in Asia in history Woodall warned that spread of the disease to Asia would make the Ebola and Zika epidemics look like picnics in the park Woodall and colleagues proposed the idea of using a fractional dose of the vaccine to extend existing supplies which were insufficient to meet the needs of a vaccination campaign in Angola and DR Congo 18 19 In 1998 he returned to Brazil as visiting professor and director of the Nucleus for the Investigation of Emerging Infectious Diseases at the Institute of Medical Biochemistry Center for Health Sciences Federal University of Rio de Janeiro Brazil 20 He retired in 2007 but remained as a consultant and professor In 2016 he was given the Richard M Taylor Award by the American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene 21 Woodall was one of the leaders and autonomous pro bono team of the One Health Initiative a collaborative effort toward optimizing the health of people and animals and the environment 22 Publications edit Woodall published numerous articles in peer reviewed scientific journals wrote for the lay press edited newsletters and appeared on TV He served on the editorial advisory board and was a columnist for The Scientist 23 He was co editor of the Atlas of Human Infectious Diseases published in 2012 24 See also editList of London School of Hygiene amp Tropical Medicine peopleReferences edit Jack Woodall a pioneer in disease surveillance dies at 81 STAT 25 October 2016 Obituary John Payne Jack Woodall Co founder of ProMED mail 2016 10 27 promedmail org Retrieved 10 December 2016 Calisher Charles H 2013 Lifting the impenetrable veil from yellow fever to Ebola hemorrhagic fever and SARS 1st ed Red Feather Lakes Colo Rockpile Press ISBN 978 0 615 82773 5 Woodall JP Williams MC Simpson DI February 1967 Congo virus a hitherto undescribed virus occurring in Africa II Identification studies East African Medical Journal 44 2 93 8 PMID 6068614 Ergonul edited by Onder Whitehouse Chris A 2007 Personal Reflections Jack Woodall Crimean Congo hemorrhagic fever a global perspective 1 ed Berlin Springer ISBN 978 1 4020 6105 9 a href Template Cite book html title Template Cite book cite book a first1 has generic name help Williams M C Woodall J P March 1961 O nyong nyong fever An epidemic virus disease in East Africa Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene 55 2 135 141 doi 10 1016 0035 9203 61 90017 7 PMID 13785469 Haddow A J Davies C W Walker A J November 1960 O nyong nyong fever An epidemic virus disease in East Africa 1 Introduction Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene 54 6 517 522 doi 10 1016 0035 9203 60 90025 0 DE ZULUETA J WOODALL JP CULLEN JR WILLIAMS MC KAFUKO GW GILLETT JD 1962 An observation on the possible effect of O Nyong Nyong fever on malaria Bulletin of the World Health Organization 26 1 135 9 PMC 2555652 PMID 13884603 Haddow AJ Williams MC Woodall JP Simpson DI Goma LK 1964 Twelve isolations of Zika virus from Aedes Stegomyia africanus Theobald taken in and above a Uganda forest Bulletin of the World Health Organization 31 1 57 69 PMC 2555143 PMID 14230895 Zika s long strange trip into the limelight Science AAAS 8 February 2016 Retrieved 10 December 2016 Wikan Nitwara Smith Duncan R January 2017 First published report of Zika virus infection in people Simpson not MacNamara The Lancet Infectious Diseases 17 1 15 17 doi 10 1016 S1473 3099 16 30525 4 PMID 27998553 Obituary John Payne Jack Woodall Co founder of ProMED mail 2016 10 27 promedmail org Retrieved 10 December 2016 Jack Woodall Profile in Retrieved 10 December 2016 Professor John Jack Woodall London School of Hygiene amp Tropical Medicine LSHTM www lshtm ac uk Retrieved 10 December 2016 Woodall J 8 February 2016 WHO reform bring back GOARN and Task Force Scorpio Infection Ecology amp Epidemiology 6 30237 doi 10 3402 iee v6 30237 PMC 4748086 PMID 26860977 Bulkeley William 31 July 1997 Tracking Disease Hot Zones on the Net A Watchdog s Warnings The Wall Street Journal Jack Woodall 81 the James Bond of animal human disease prevention Animals 24 7 30 October 2016 Retrieved 23 November 2016 Monath TP Woodall JP Gubler DJ Yuill TM Mackenzie JS Martins RM Reiter P Heymann DL 16 April 2016 Yellow fever vaccine supply a possible solution Lancet 387 10028 1599 600 doi 10 1016 s0140 6736 16 30195 7 PMID 27116054 S2CID 13106004 Calisher CH Woodall JP October 2016 Yellow Fever More a Policy and Planning Problem than a Biological One Emerging Infectious Diseases 22 10 1859 60 doi 10 3201 eid2210 160875 PMC 5038394 PMID 27479749 Professor John Jack Woodall London School of Hygiene amp Tropical Medicine LSHTM www lshtm ac uk Retrieved 28 November 2016 Obituary John Payne Jack Woodall Co founder of ProMED mail 2016 10 27 21 25 51 promedmail org International Society for Infectious Diseases Retrieved 18 December 2016 Yamada Akio Kahn Laura H Kaplan Bruce Monath Thomas P Woodall Jack Conti Lisa 19 November 2014 Confronting Emerging Zoonoses The One Health Paradigm Springer ISBN 9784431551201 Patient Zero exonerated Jack Woodall dies Zika fighting skeeter The Scientist Magazine The Scientist Retrieved 10 December 2016 Wertheim Heiman F L Horby Peter Woodall John P eds 26 March 2012 Atlas of Human Infectious Diseases doi 10 1002 9781444354690 ISBN 9781444354690 Retrieved 10 December 2016 External links edit Supercourse Epidemiology the Internet and Global Health University of Pittsburgh Retrieved 29 March 2016 YELLOW FEVER in ASIA Supercourse University of Pittsburgh Retrieved 29 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