Alfredo Morabia
Alfredo Morabia is a Swiss American doctor, epidemiologist, and historian. He is currently professor of epidemiology at the Barry Commoner Center for Health and the Environment at Queens College, City University of New York.. He is the Principal Investigator of the World Trade Center-Heart cohort study. He lectures and teaches on the history of epidemiology internationally in English, French, Spanish, Portuguese, and Italian.
Alfredo Morabia also serves as the Editor in Chief of the American Journal of Public Health. Morabia is also editor of "Epidemiology in History" in the American Journal of Epidemiology and was supported by the National Library of Medicine to write about the history of epidemiology.Biography
Morabia completed his undergraduate studies at Collège Calvin in Geneva in 1971, majoring in Greek and Latin. After receiving his M.D. from the School of Medicine at the University of Geneva in 1978, Morabia trained in internal medicine at the University Hospital of Geneva and in occupational medicine in Italy. He is board certified in both internal medicine and occupational medicine. In 2009, he was appointed Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.
In 1986, Morabia received a grant from the Swiss National Science Foundation to study at the Johns Hopkins School of Hygiene and Public Health, where he obtained M.P.H. and Ph.D. degrees in epidemiology, the first such PhD awarded to a Swiss citizen, and an M.H.S. in biostatistics.
In August 1990, he became chair of the Clinical Epidemiology Unit at the University Hospital of Geneva, the first epidemiology group ever created in a Swiss hospital. Under his leadership, the unit grew into a division, and he was subsequently appointed professor of clinical epidemiology at the University of Geneva.
