Dr. Alfredo Morabia
Dr. Alfredo Morabia, Editor American Journal of Public Health Serving since 2015, will speak on “Public Health Perspectives: Population Thinking from the Black Death to COVID-19” on Thursday, Oct. 17 at 6 p.m. in Giffels Auditorium at Old Main.
Morabia earned a B.A. in Greek and Latin from Collège Calvin in Geneva in 1971, and an M.D. from the School of Medicine at the University Hospital of Geneva in 1978. Following a grant from the Swiss National Science Foundation, he completed an M.P.H. and Ph.D. in epidemiology and an M.H.S. in biostatistics at the Johns Hopkins School of Hygiene and Public Health.
In 1990, he assumed the chair of the Clinical Epidemiology Unit at the University Hospital in Geneva. He was appointed a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians in Edinburgh in 2009 and now serves as Professor of Clinical Epidemiology at the Mailman School of Public Health at Columbia University in New York and Professor of Epidemiology at the Barry Commoner Center for Health and the Environment at Queens College of the City University of New York.
He has conducted research into the epidemiology and study of cardiovascular disease among people who cleaned up the rubble of the World Trade Center after 9/11. He is also a scholar of the history of tobacco and the history of public health. He previously served as editor of “Epidemiology in History.” American Journal of Epidemiology,
Morabia’s lecture, which is based on her book of the same name, is being sponsored by the U of A Humanities Center and the Medical Humanities RSO in the Fulbright College of Arts and Sciences, and the Center for Public Health and Technology in the College of Education and Health Professions.
Copies of Morabia's book are available. For more information, contact [email protected].