Wun-Ju Shieh, M.D., M.P.H., Ph.D., Dr.PH (h.c.)
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Wun-Ju Shieh, M.D., M.P.H., Ph.D., Dr.PH (h.c.), worked at the Infectious Diseases Pathology Branch, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention from 1995 to 2020. He graduated from Taipei Medical University in 1979. After completion of internal medicine and infectious disease training in 1986, he moved to the U.S. and received a Master of Public Health from Harvard University in 1987 and a Ph.D. in microbiology and immunology from Vanderbilt University in 1992. Afterward, he completed a combined anatomical and clinical pathology residency training at Vanderbilt University Medical Center, and an infectious disease pathology fellowship at CDC.
Shieh has participated in many outbreak investigations during his tenure at CDC, including 1995 Ebola in Zaire, 1995 leptospirosis in Nicaragua, 1997 Lassa fever in Sierra Leone, 1997 EV71 in Malaysia, 1999 Nipah virus in Malaysia, 1999 West Nile encephalitis in U.S., 2001 anthrax in U.S., 2003 SARS in Vietnam and Taiwan, 2003 mpox in U.S., 2009 pandemic H1N1 influenza, 2020 pandemic COVID19, etc. His academic interests include:
Shieh has participated in many outbreak investigations during his tenure at CDC, including 1995 Ebola in Zaire, 1995 leptospirosis in Nicaragua, 1997 Lassa fever in Sierra Leone, 1997 EV71 in Malaysia, 1999 Nipah virus in Malaysia, 1999 West Nile encephalitis in U.S., 2001 anthrax in U.S., 2003 SARS in Vietnam and Taiwan, 2003 mpox in U.S., 2009 pandemic H1N1 influenza, 2020 pandemic COVID19, etc. His academic interests include:
- Pathology, clinical microbiology, epidemiology and pathogenesis of infectious diseases.
- Genetic variation and molecular biology of viruses.
- Global public health and geographic medicine.
- Digital imaging, medical information management and teaching.