Bruce George Link (born September 3, 1949) is an American epidemiologist and sociologist who is a Distinguished Professor of Sociology and Public Policy at the

University of California, Riverside The University of California, Riverside (UCR or UC Riverside) is a public university, public Land-grant university, land-grant research university in Riverside, California. It is one of the ten campuses of the University of California system. Th ...

. He is also a Professor Emeritus of Epidemiology and Sociomedical Sciences in the Mailman School of Public Health at

Columbia University Columbia University (also known as Columbia, and officially as Columbia University in the City of New York) is a private research university in New York City. Established in 1754 as King's College on the grounds of Trinity Church in Manha ...

, a research scientist at the

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, and the current president of the

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(IAPHS).

Early life and education

Born in

Denver Denver () is a consolidated city and county, the capital, and most populous city of the U.S. state of Colorado. Its population was 715,522 at the 2020 census, a 19.22% increase since 2010. It is the 19th-most populous city in the United ...

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, Link is the son of Eugene P. Link and his wife, Beulah Meyer Link. He graduated from Earlham College in 1971 with a B.A. in sociology, and received his Ph.D. and M.S. from

in 1980 and 1982, respectively.

Career

Link first joined the faculty of Columbia University in 1981 as an assistant professor of

public health Public health is "the science and art of preventing disease, prolonging life and promoting health through the organized efforts and informed choices of society, organizations, public and private, communities and individuals". Analyzing the det ...

. He was promoted to associate professor and full professor at Columbia in 1988 and 1998, respectively. He left the faculty of Columbia in 2015 to become a professor at the University of California, Riverside.

Honors and awards

In 1995, Link received an Investigator Award in Health Policy Research from the

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. In 2002, he was elected to the

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; he received the

Leonard I. Pearlin Leonard Irving Pearlin (December 26, 1924 – July 23, 2014) was an American sociologist whose work focused on the sociology of mental illness. Much of this work centered around the "stress process model", a model he developed to attempt to expla ...

Award for Distinguished Contributions to the Sociological Study of Mental Health from the

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the same year. In 2007, he received both the Leo G. Reeder Award from the American Sociological Association and the Rema Lapouse Award from the American Public Health Association.

References

External links

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at the University of California, Riverside
Faculty page
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