Sandro Galea

Overview

Dean of the Boston University School of Public Health and Professor of Epidemiology. Research spans social epidemiology, mental health, trauma, and the macrosocial determinants of population health. Senior author of Bor, Cohen, and Galea (2017), a systematic review of US income- and education-related mortality trends 1980–2015 in The Lancet.

Key Contributions / Features

• Senior author of Bor Cohen and Galea 2017 — Population Health in an Era of Rising Income Inequality USA 1980–2015: synthesized two-channel framework for widening US survival gaps and articulated the Health-Poverty Trap concept.
• Extensive research on trauma, PTSD, and disaster epidemiology (post-9/11, Hurricane Katrina).
• Author of Healthier: Fifty Thoughts on the Foundations of Population Health (2017) and related public health advocacy.

Related

• Jacob Bor
• Gregory H. Cohen
• Income-Mortality Gradient
• Health-Poverty Trap

Sources

• Bor Cohen and Galea 2017 — Population Health in an Era of Rising Income Inequality USA 1980–2015