For immediate release, July 3, 2013
Michael B. Bracken, Susan Dwight Bliss Professor of Epidemiology at the Yale School of Public Health’s Department of Chronic Disease Epidemiology, and Professor of Neurology and Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Science in the Medical School, has been named recipient of the the 2013 Abraham Lilienfeld Award. The Lilienfeld Award is the highest honor bestowed by the American College of Epidemiology and is given for “outstanding contributions and leadership in the discipline of epidemiology”. Bracken will address the College at its Annual Meeting in September.
Professor Bracken (MPH '70; PhD '74) has been a Yale University faculty member for 42 years and is a sometime Fellow of Green Templeton College, Oxford University. He is the recipient of numerous NIH grants and has published some 400 papers on a broad range of public health and clinical topics. His recent book "Risk Chance and Causation: Investigating the Origins and Treatment of Disease" was released by Yale University Press in June 2013.