The American Museum of Natural History would like to acknowledge the assistance of the scientific advisory board for Epidemic! The World of Infectious Disease:

Jeremiah A. Barondess, M.D.
New York Academy of Medicine

Barry Bloom, Ph.D.
Harvard School of Public Health, Harvard University

Dani Bolognesi, Ph.D.
Duke University Medical Center

Daivid Brandling-Bennett, M.D.
Pan American Health Organization

Richard J. Colonno, Ph.D.
Bristol-Myers Squibb Company

Veena Das, Ph.D.
University of Delhi

Anthony S. Fauci, M.D.
National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases/National Institutes of Health

Laurie A. Garrett
Newsday

Anne Gershon, M.D.
Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons

Paul Greenough, Ph.D.
University of Iowa

Margaret A. Hamburg, M.D.
United States Department of Health and Human Services

David Ho, M.D.
The Aaron Diamond AIDS Research Center

Samuel Katz, M.D.
Duke University School of Medicine

Mathilde Krim, Ph.D.
American Foundation for AIDS Research

Joshua Lederberg, Ph.D.
The Rockefeller University

Joseph Edward McDade, Ph.D.
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

Anne Platt McGinn
WorldWatch Institute

Alvin Novick, M.D.
Yale University

Robert E. Shope, M.D.
The University of Texas

Burton Singer, Ph.D.
Princeton University

Bonnie Lee Smoak, M.D., Ph.D.
Walter Reed Army Institute of Research

Andew Spielman, Sc.D.
Harvard School of Public Health, Harvard University

Louis Sullivan, M.D.
Morehouse School of Medicine

Mary E. Wilson, M.D.
Mount Auburn Hospital

The American Museum of Natural History would also like to acknowledge the assistance of the following organizations:

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

The City of New York Department of Health

National Institutes of Health

Pan American Health Organization

United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF)

World Health Organization

This exhibition is made possible through the generous support of Bristol-Myers Squibb Company. Major funding has also been provided by the Lila Wallace-Reader's Digest Endowment Fund.

Epidemic! has been organized by Rob DeSalle, organizer of Epidemic!, is an associate curator in the Museum's Department of Entomology and co-director of the Museum's molecular laboratories. His fields of specialization include molecular evolution, popular genetics, molecular systematics, and developmental biology. He received his doctorate in evolution and ecology from Washington University.

Marla Jo Brickman is the scientific content coordinator for Epidemic! She received her doctorate in microbiology and immunology from Duke University. Her research interests are in cell biology and parasitology.

This Epidemic! exhibition website was developed by <kpe>, in conjunction with Diane Mehta, editor and producer of the site, at the American Museum of Natural History.

Photographs of microbes are courtesy of eye of science, Oliver Meckes + Nicole Ottawa