Alfredo Morabia

Alfredo Morabia (born 2 November 1952) is a Swiss American doctor, epidemiologist, and historian. 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] He is the Principal Investigator of the World Trade Center-Heart cohort study.[2] He lectures and teaches on the history of epidemiology internationally in English, French, Spanish, Portuguese, and Italian.[3][4][5]

Alfredo Morabia
Alfredo Morabia
Born(1952-11-02)2 November 1952
CitizenshipSwitzerland and United States
Alma materUniversity of Geneva
Johns Hopkins School of Public Health
Known forHistory of Epidemiology
Scientific career
FieldsMedicine, epidemiology
InstitutionsBarry Commoner Center for Health and the Environment, Queens College, City University of New York
Doctoral advisorMoyses Szklo

Alfredo Morabia also serves as the Editor in Chief of the American Journal of Public Health.[6] Morabia is also editor of "Epidemiology in History" in the American Journal of Epidemiology[7] and was supported by the National Library of Medicine to write about the history of epidemiology.

Biography

Morabia completed his undergraduate studies at Collège Calvin in Geneva in 1971, majoring in Greek and Latin.[8] After receiving his M.D. from the School of Medicine at the University of Geneva in 1978, Morabia trained in internal medicine at the University Hospital of Geneva and in occupational medicine in Italy.[1] He is board certified in both internal medicine and occupational medicine. 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, the first such PhD awarded to a Swiss citizen,[9] and an M.H.S. in biostatistics.

In August 1990, he became chair of the Clinical Epidemiology Unit at the University Hospital of Geneva, the first epidemiology group ever created in a Swiss hospital.[10] Under his leadership, the unit grew into a division, and he was subsequently appointed professor of clinical epidemiology at the University of Geneva.[1]

References
  1. Alfredo Morabia, People, School of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Queens College, CUNY, retrieved 31 August 2013.
  2. "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.
  3. Karen Feldscher, "Speaker says epidemiology got its start centuries ago", HSPH News, Harvard School of Public Health, 24 September 2012, retrieved 31 August 2013.
  4. Alfredo Morabia, Curso 61F3, Historia de los Métodos Epidemiológicos y de Investigación Clínica, Universidad Internacional Menéndez Pelayo, 2012, retrieved 31 August 2013 (in Spanish)
  5. Epidemiologia: curso aborda histórico dos conceitos e métodos, Fundação Oswaldo Cruz, 12 June 2012, retrieved 31 August 2013 (in Portuguese)
  7. 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.
  8. http://www.qc.cuny.edu/Academics/Degrees/DMNS/sees/People/Documents/MorabiaCV.pdf
  9. MORABIA A. Le Bus Santé: une aventure genevoise. Médecine et Hygiène, 2006. ISBN 2-88049-220-3
  10. 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
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