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Alfredo Morabia

Alfredo Morabia
Born (1952-11-02) 2 November 1952 (age 71)
NationalitySwiss and American
Alma mater
Known forHistory of epidemiology
Scientific career
FieldsMedicine, epidemiology
Institutions
Doctoral advisorMoyses Szklo

Alfredo Morabia (born 2 November 1952) is a Swiss-American physician, epidemiologist, and historian of medicine. 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] in addition to serving as professor of Clinical Epidemiology at the Department of Epidemiology at the Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University.[2]

Morabia serves as the editor-in-chief of the American Journal of Public Health.[3] Morabia has also been editor of "Epidemiology in History" in the American Journal of Epidemiology.[4] 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,[5] 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.[6][7][8]

  1. ^ Alfredo Morabia, People, School of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Queens College, CUNY, retrieved 31 August 2013.
  2. ^ "Alfredo Morabia | Columbia Public Health". publichealth.columbia.edu. December 2022. Retrieved 6 March 2023.
  3. ^ "Alfredo Morabia Begins Role as A.J.P.H. Editor-in-Chief – School of Public Health". Archived from the original on 14 September 2015. Retrieved 5 October 2015.
  4. ^ 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.
  5. ^ [1]"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 10 July 2018.
  6. ^ Karen Feldscher, "Speaker says epidemiology got its start centuries ago", HSPH News, Harvard School of Public Health, 24 September 2012, retrieved 31 August 2013.
  7. ^ Alfredo Morabia, Curso 61F3, Historia de los Métodos Epidemiológicos y de Investigación Clínica, Universidad Internacional Menéndez Pelayo, 2012, retrieved 31 August 2013 (in Spanish)
  8. ^ Epidemiologia: curso aborda histórico dos conceitos e métodos, Fundação Oswaldo Cruz, 12 June 2012, retrieved 31 August 2013 (in Portuguese)

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