Susan P. Fisher-Hoch (born 1940) is a British-born infectious-disease specialist who has made major contributions to the understanding of

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and

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. She is the co-author, along with her husband

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, of the memoir ''Level 4: Virus Hunters of the CDC''. Fisher-Hoch is professor of epidemiology at

The University of Texas Health Science Center The University of Texas System (UT System) is a public university system in the U.S. state of Texas. It includes nine universities and five independent health institutions. The UT System is headquartered in Downtown Austin. It is the large ...

School of Public Health. She was inducted into the

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Hall of Fame in 2008. In 1993, Susan and her husband moved to

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, Pakistan, where they worked at the

Aga Khan University Aga Khan University is a private research university based in Karachi, Pakistan. It is a non-profit institution and an agency of the Aga Khan Development Network. It was founded in 1983 as Pakistan's first private university. Starting in 2000, t ...

. During her time there, she supervised the clinical microbiology laboratory which was the largest in Pakistan.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Fisher-Hoch, Susan 1940 births Living people Academic staff of Aga Khan University British women epidemiologists British epidemiologists British expatriates in Pakistan University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston faculty British expatriates in the United States