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Dr. Alfred Moravia
Dr. Alfredo Moravia, editor of the American Journal of Public Health since 2015, will present “Public Health Approaches: The Black Death” on Oct. 17 at 6 p.m. in Giffels Auditorium on Old Main. He will give a lecture on “Population Thinking from 2019 to the Novel Coronavirus Infection”. .
Moravia earned a bachelor’s degree in Greek and Latin from Calvin College in Geneva in 1971 and then a doctorate in medicine in 1978 from the Faculty of Medicine of the University Hospital in Geneva. After receiving a grant from the Swiss National Science Foundation, he completed his Ph.D. MPH and Ph.D. in Epidemiology and Master’s in Biostatistics from the Johns Hopkins School of Hygiene and Public Health. In 1990, he became head of the clinical epidemiology department at the University Hospital of Geneva. He was appointed a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh in 2009 and is currently Professor of Clinical Epidemiology at the Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health in New York and Professor of Epidemiology at the Bury Commoner Health Centre. Environment of Queens College, City University of New York. He has conducted research on epidemiology and cardiovascular disease in people who removed the rubble from the World Trade Center after September 11th. He is also a scholar of the history of tobacco and public health. He previously served as editor of “Epidemiology in History” at the American Journal of Epidemiology.
Moravia’s lecture, based on his book of the same name, is sponsored by the Fulbright College of Arts and Sciences’ Humanities Center and Medical Humanities RSO, and the College of Education’s Center for Public Health Technology. and medical professions.
A copy of Moravian’s book is available at https://www.press.jhu.edu/books/title/12933/public-health-approach.
For more information, please contact tstarks@uark.edu.
