Alfredo Morabia

Alfredo Morabia
Alfredo Morabia
Born	(1952-11-02)2 November 1952
Residence	New York City
Citizenship	Switzerland and United States
Fields	Medicine, epidemiology
Institutions	Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University Barry Commoner Center for Health and the Environment, Queens College, City University of New York
Alma mater	University of Geneva Johns Hopkins School of Public Health
Doctoral advisor	Moyses Szklo
Known for	History of Epidemiology

Alfredo Morabia (born 2 November 1952) is a Swiss American doctor, epidemiologist, and historian. He is currently professor of clinical epidemiology at the Department of Epidemiology at the Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University, New York, and professor of epidemiology at the Barry Commoner Center for Health and the Environment at Queens College, City University of New York. 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 will also remain editor of "Epidemiology in History" in the American Journal of Epidemiology and supported by the National Library of Medicine to write about the history of epidemiology.

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.