Alfredo Morabia

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Alfredo Morabia
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Born (1952-11-02) 2 November 1952 (age 71)
NationalitySwiss and American
Alma mater
Known for History of epidemiology
Scientific career
Fields Medicine, epidemiology
Institutions
Doctoral advisor Moyses Szklo

Alfredo Morabia (born 2 November 1952) is a Swiss-American physician, epidemiologist, and historian of medicine. He is currently professor of epidemiology at the Barry Commoner Center for Health and the Environment at Queens College, City University of New York [1] in addition to serving as professor of Clinical Epidemiology at the Department of Epidemiology at the Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University. [2]

Contents

Morabia serves as the editor-in-chief of the American Journal of Public Health . [3] Morabia has also been editor of "Epidemiology in History" in the American Journal of Epidemiology . [4] His expertise as a historian ranges from the history of scientific methods and concepts utilized to study population to urban health. He is the principal investigator of the World Trade Center-Heart cohort study, [5] which delves into the long-term heart health of first responders from the 9/11, 2001 attack. He lectures and teaches on the history of epidemiology internationally in various languages. [6] [7] [8]

Biography

Morabia completed his undergraduate studies at Collège Calvin in Geneva in 1971, majoring in Greek and Latin. [9] After receiving his M.D. from the School of Medicine at the University of Geneva in 1978, he was trained in internal medicine at the University Hospital of Geneva and in occupational medicine in Italy. [1] In 2009, he was appointed Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.

In 1986, Morabia received a grant from the Swiss National Science Foundation to study at the Johns Hopkins School of Hygiene and Public Health, where he obtained M.P.H. and Ph.D. degrees in epidemiology [10] and an M.H.S. in biostatistics.

In August 1990, he became chair of the Clinical Epidemiology Unit at the University Hospital of Geneva. [11] The unit grew into a division, and Morabia was subsequently appointed professor of clinical epidemiology at the University of Geneva. [1] In 1992, he created the "Bus Santé 2000" (Health Bus 2000) which is still in operation 30 years later. [12]

Morabia has written and edited several books on epidemiology and public health. In 2004, he edited and contributed to A History of Epidemiologic Methods and Concepts and in 2014, he was supported by a grant from the National Library of Medicine (NLM) to write Enigmas of Health and Disease: How Epidemiology Helps Unravel Scientific Mysteries. [13] In 2023, he published his first book on the history of public health, The Public Health Approach , also funded by an NLM grant. [14]

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References

  1. 1 2 3 Alfredo Morabia, People, School of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Queens College, CUNY, retrieved 31 August 2013.
  2. ↑ "Alfredo Morabia | Columbia Public Health". www.publichealth.columbia.edu. December 2022. Retrieved 6 March 2023.
  3. ↑ "Alfredo Morabia Begins Role as A.J.P.H. Editor-in-Chief – School of Public Health". Archived from the original on 14 September 2015. Retrieved 5 October 2015.
  4. ↑ Alfredo Morabia, "The New 'Snippets From the Past' and a New Section About 'Epidemiology in History'", American Journal of Epidemiology 177.6 (2013) 490–91.
  5. ↑ "Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder and Cardiovascular Diseases A Cohort Study of Men and Women Involved in Cleaning the Debris of the World Trade Center Complex" by Molly Remch, Zoey Laskaris, Janine Flory, Consuelo Mora-McLaughlin and Alfredo Morabia, Circulation: Cardiovascular Quality and Outcomes. 2018; 11: e004572, originally published July 10, 2018.
  6. ↑ Karen Feldscher, "Speaker says epidemiology got its start centuries ago", HSPH News, Harvard School of Public Health, 24 September 2012, retrieved 31 August 2013.
  7. ↑ Alfredo Morabia, Curso 61F3, Historia de los Métodos Epidemiológicos y de Investigación Clínica, Universidad Internacional Menéndez Pelayo, 2012, retrieved 31 August 2013 (in Spanish)
  8. ↑ Epidemiologia: curso aborda histórico dos conceitos e métodos, Fundação Oswaldo Cruz, 12 June 2012, retrieved 31 August 2013 (in Portuguese)
  9. ↑ "Morabia CV4" (PDF). cuny.edu. Retrieved 30 May 2023.
  10. ↑ MORABIA A. Le Bus Santé: une aventure genevoise. Médecine et Hygiène, 2006. ISBN   2-88049-220-3
  11. ↑ Holland WW, Olsen J, Du V Florey C (editors). The Development of Modern Epidemiology. Personal reports from those who were there. Oxford University Press 2007, p.17
  12. ↑ "BUS SANTE - UNE AVENTURE GENEVOISE". boutique.revmed.ch (in French). Retrieved 24 January 2023.
  13. ↑ "Alfredo Morabia, MD, PhD, MPH". Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health. 1 December 2022. Retrieved 6 June 2024.
  14. ↑ Morabia, Alfredo (17 October 2023). The Public Health Approach: Population Thinking from the Black Death to COVID-19. Baltimore, Maryland: Johns Hopkins University Press. pp. 147–149. ISBN   9781421446783.
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