Bruce Link

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Bruce Link
Born
Bruce George Link

(1949-09-03) September 3, 1949 (age 73)
NationalityAmerican
Education Earlham College
Columbia University
Known for Health disparities
Psychiatric epidemiology
Social stigma
Theory of fundamental causes
Awards Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Investigator Award in Health Policy Research (1995)
Scientific career
Fields Epidemiology
Sociology
Institutions Columbia University
University of California, Riverside
Thesis Mental patient status and social disability: an examination of the effects of a psychiatric label (1980)
Doctoral advisor Bruce Dohrenwend

Bruce George Link (born September 3, 1949) [1] is an American epidemiologist and sociologist who is a Distinguished Professor of Sociology and Public Policy at the University of California, Riverside. He is also a Professor Emeritus of Epidemiology and Sociomedical Sciences in the Mailman School of Public Health at Columbia University, a research scientist at the New York State Psychiatric Institute, and the current president of the Interdisciplinary Association for Population Health Science (IAPHS). [2] Bruce Link is probably best known for developing fundamental cause theory of social inequalities in health together with Jo Phelan.

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Early life and education

Born in Denver, Colorado, [1] Link is the son of Eugene P. Link and his wife, Beulah Meyer Link. [3] He graduated from Earlham College in 1971 with a B.A. in sociology, and received his Ph.D. and M.S. from Columbia University in 1980 and 1982, respectively. [1]

Career

Link first joined the faculty of Columbia University in 1981 as an assistant professor of public health. He was promoted to associate professor and full professor at Columbia in 1988 and 1998, respectively. [1] He left the faculty of Columbia in 2015 to become a professor at the University of California, Riverside. [4]

Honors and awards

In 1995, Link received an Investigator Award in Health Policy Research from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. In 2002, he was elected to the Institute of Medicine; he received the Leonard I. Pearlin Award for Distinguished Contributions to the Sociological Study of Mental Health from the American Sociological Association the same year. In 2007, he received both the Leo G. Reeder Award from the American Sociological Association and the Rema Lapouse Award from the American Public Health Association. [5] [6]

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Jo Carol Phelan is a Special Research Scientist in the Department of Sociomedical Sciences and Co-Director of the Center for the Study of Social Inequalities and Health at Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health. She is known for working with Bruce Link to develop the theory of fundamental causes of social inequalities in health. She was a Russell Sage Foundation Visiting Scholar from 2012 to 2013. She also received a Health Policy Investigator Award from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation in 1996, and the 1999 book Handbook of the Sociology of Mental Health, which she co-edited, received the prize for best publication from the American Sociological Association's Section of the Sociology of Mental Health.

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 "Bruce Link Curriculum Vitae" (PDF). University of California, Riverside. 2014-01-01. Retrieved 2018-07-02.
  2. "A Message from President Bruce Link". IAPHS. 2018-01-29. Retrieved 2018-07-02.
  3. Link, Eugene P. (1992). The Social Ideas of American Physicians (1776-1976): Studies of the Humanitarian Tradition in Medicine. Susquehanna University Press. p. 21. ISBN   9780945636342.
  4. "Farewell Wishes for Bruce Link". Social Epidemiology Unit. 2015-07-09. Retrieved 2018-07-02.
  5. "Bruce Link". Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Investigator Awards in Health Policy Research. Archived from the original on 2018-07-02. Retrieved 2018-07-02.
  6. "Bruce Link". Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health. Retrieved 2018-07-02.