Renowned Health Journal Editor Discusses Public Health History

On Sep 17, 2024

Renowned Public Health Expert Dr. Alfredo Morabia To Give Talk

Esteemed editor of The American Journal of Public Health, Dr. Alfredo Morabia, will deliver a talk entitled “The Public Health Approach: Population Thinking from the Black Death to COVID-19” at 6 p.m. on Thursday, Oct. 17, in the Giffels Auditorium at Old Main.

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Dr. Alfredo Morabia

Dr. Morabia’s Distinguished Background

Having earned his B.A. in Greek and Latin in 1971 from College Calvin in Geneva, Dr. Morabia moved on to complete his M.D. at the School of Medicine at the University Hospital in Geneva in 1978. Thanks to a grant from the Swiss National Science Foundation, he earned an M.P.H. and Ph.D. in epidemiology and an M.H.S. in biostatistics from the renowned Johns Hopkins School of Hygiene and Public Health.

In 1990, Dr. Morabia took up the position of Chair of the Clinical Epidemiology Unit at the University Hospital in Geneva. He received the prestigious title Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians in Edinburgh in 2009. He currently imparts his knowledge as a professor of clinical epidemiology at the Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University, New York, and as a professor of epidemiology at the Barry Commoner Center for Health and the Environment at Queens College, City University of New York.

Contributions to Public Health Research

Dr. Morabia’s contributions to public health have been significant. He has conducted extensive research in epidemiology, with a focus on studies of cardiovascular diseases in the 9/11 World Trade Center debris cleanup workers. He is also a noted scholar in the history of tobacco and the history of public health. He formerly served as the editor of “Epidemiology in History” at the American Journal of Epidemiology.

About the Talk

Dr. Morabia’s talk, based on his namesake book, is sponsored by the U of A Humanities Center and the Medical Humanities RSO in the Fulbright College of Arts and Sciences, as well as the Center for Public Health and Technology in the College of Education and Health Professions. Copies of Morabia’s book, which serves as the basis for his talk, are available. For more details about the event, you may contact tstarks@uark.edu.