Chairman and CEO of Noji Global Health & Security
"...So much has been said and written about Dr Eric Noji -- and his story is so mythic in its sweep -- that it's difficult to summarize his career without restating clichés that have already been digested by dozens of his admirers. To start with the obvious, he is the most influential public health figure in the disaster relief and humanitarian crisis community, having introduced more innovations into current health response to disasters than any of his contemporaries. Relentlessly imaginative, iconoclastic and innovative, Doctor Noji grabbed a hold of the international humanitarian community's consciousness in 1985 and never let go for the next three decades, always staying ahead of the pack in terms of creativity but never losing his remarkable ability to communicate his increasingly sophisticated ideas to the general public and senior-level decision-makers in governments, the UN, corporations and philanthropic organizations. His supremacy as disaster icon remains unchallenged to this day, years after having left the Centers for Disease Control where he first achieved prominence..."
From "The Living Legend", excerpts from the Foreword to his book of memoirs "In the Eye of the Storm: Confessions of a Wanderer", Prentice Hall, Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey (in press).
Physician, scientist, educator, humanitarian visionary, and legend in the field of disaster relief and emergency preparedness.
"...On the evening of 24 September 2005, his webcast on disaster management was seen by over 1.5 million viewers, still the largest audience in history for a single academic lecture. This lecture on core disaster management principles was, according to many of those privileged to have been in the auditorium (perhaps 150 people at most), a presentation of such sustained brilliance that even now, five years later, they insist that Noji has never surpassed it--nor, perhaps, has anyone... before or since..."
From "Zenith at the CDC", excerpts from the Foreword to his book of memoirs "In the Eye of the Storm: Confessions of a Wanderer", Prentice Hall, Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey (in press).
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