Barry S. Levy Explained

Barry S. Levy (born 1944) is a physician and former president of the American Public Health Association.

A graduate of Tufts University (B.S., 1966), he holds an M.P.H. (1970) from the Harvard School of Public Health, and completed his M.D. (1971) at Weill Cornell Medicine.[1] He completed his internal medicine residency at University Hospital and the Beth Israel Hospital (now Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center) in Boston, and a preventive medicine residency at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.[2]

He currently is an adjunct professor of community and public health at Tufts University School of Medicine. He formerly was a medical epidemiologist with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, a professor at the University of Massachusetts Chan Medical School, and director of international public health programs. He served in a variety of roles in the American Public Health Association.

With Victor W. Sidel, he is the author of War and Public Health, Terrorism and Public Health, and other books.[3] [4] Levy is a coauthor of Occupational and Environmental Health: Recognizing and Preventing Disease and Injury, a textbook in public health.[5] Levy edited Preventing Occupational Disease and Injury (2005), published by the American Public Health Association.[6] In 2015, he authored Climate Change and Public Health with Jonathan Patz.[7] In 2022 he published From Horror to Hope: Recognizing and Preventing the Health Impacts of War.[8]

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Notes and References

  1. Web site: Barry Levy, M.D., M.P.H. . 2023-04-14 . Tufts University Faculty Profiles.
  2. Web site: 2015-12-07 . Barry Levy . 2023-04-14 . The Forum at Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health . en-US.
  3. Book: Levy . Barry S. . Sidel . Victor W. . War and Public Health . American Public Health Association . 2000 . 0-87553-023-0 .
  4. Book: Levy . Barry S. . Sidel . Victor W. . Terrorism and Public Health: A Balanced Approach to Strengthening Systems and Protecting People . Oxford University Press . 2006-11-16 . 0-19-532525-7 .
  5. Book: Levy . Barry S. . Occupational and Environmental Health: Recognizing and Preventing Disease and Injury . Wegman . David H. . Baron . Sherry L. . Sokas . Rosemary K. . 2005-11-01 . Lippincott Williams & Wilkins . 0-7817-5551-4.
  6. Book: Levy. Barry S. . Wagner. Gregory R.. Rest. Kathleen M.. Preventing Occupational Disease and Injury . 2005. American Public Health Association. 978-0-87553-043-7.
  7. Book: Climate Change and Public Health. 30 July 2015 . Oxford University Press. 978-0-19-020245-3 .
  8. Book: From Horror to Hope: Recognizing and Preventing the Health Impacts of War . 2022-05-06 . Oxford University Press . 978-0-19-764597-0 . Oxford, New York.