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Dale Morse
is a national and international expert in infectious
disease epidemiology, and his research has had a
profound effect on public health. The main focus
of his research has been on major causes of communicable
diseases and methods of preventing the spread of
food-borne diseases, vaccine-preventable diseases,
tuberculosis, and HIV.
Morse is often called upon to advise public health
officials on major multi-state outbreaks. He is
usually consulted for advice when the interpretation
of results is particularly difficult and the result
of action or non-action is significant. Among his
most noteworthy contributions was his work in helping
New York to become the first state to require a
two-dose vaccine schedule to prevent measles after
his research found that many students who developed
measles during an epidemic had received only a single
vaccination.
Recently, Morse’s research has stretched
to Eastern Europe and Central Asia. Funded by
the Fogarty International grants, Morse has supported
young physicians’ attendance at the University
at Albany to earn master’s degrees in epidemiology.
His training of such students has included developing
research programs to be used in their home countries.
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