Alfredo Morabia (born 2 November 1952) is a Swiss-American

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, and historian of medicine. He is currently

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of epidemiology at the Barry Commoner Center for Health and the Environment at

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Alfredo Morabia
People, School of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Queens College, CUNY, retrieved 31 August 2013. in addition to serving as professor of Clinical Epidemiology at the Department of Epidemiology at the Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University. Morabia serves as the

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of the ''

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''. Morabia has also been editor of "''Epidemiology in History''" in the ''

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''. 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, 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.

Biography

Morabia completed his undergraduate studies at

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in Geneva in 1971, majoring in Greek and Latin. After receiving his

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from the School of Medicine at the

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in 1978, he was trained in internal medicine at the

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and in

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in Italy. In 2009, he was appointed Fellow of the

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. In 1986, Morabia received a grant from the

Swiss National Science Foundation The Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF, German: ''Schweizerischer Nationalfonds zur Förderung der wissenschaftlichen Forschung'', SNF; French: ''Fonds national suisse de la recherche scientifique'', FNS; Italian: ''Fondo nazionale svizzero ...

to study at the

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, where he obtained M.P.H. and

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degrees in epidemiologyMORABIA A. Le Bus Santé: une aventure genevoise. Médecine et Hygiène, 2006. and an M.H.S. in

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

References

External links

"Cutter Symposium: Celebrating 100 Years (and more) of Epidemiology at Harvard"
, video of a keynote lecture at Harvard School of Public Health, 8 November 2013
"Epi Seminar Series: How Epidemiology has become infatuated with methods?"
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