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Address
Sergievsky Center, Columbia University, 630 W 168 Street
New York, 10032
Phone:212-305-9081
Fax: 212-305-9080
Email:[email protected]
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Education and Training
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| University of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South A
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Special Lecturer of Epidemiology, Mailman School of Public Health
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Sergievsky Professor of Epidemiology Emeritus of The Gertrude H. Sergievsky Center, College of Physicians and Surgeons
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| Dr. Mervyn W. Susser, began his career in community and primary health care in Alexandra, South Africa, and with his wife Zena Stein was appointed to joint charge of the Alexandra Clinic and University Health Centre. He later spent a year as a chest physician, qualified as a member of the Royal College of Physicians (Edinburgh), was recruited to the Department of Social and Preventive Medicine at Manchester University, and served as medical officer for Mental Health for the City of Salford. From 1966 through 1978, he was professor and head of Epidemiology, Columbia University Faculty of Health Sciences. In 1978, he founded the Sergievsky Center and served as Sergievsky Professor of Epidemiology until his retirement in 1990. From 1990 through 1996, Dr Susser was editor of the American Journal of Public Health. Together with Zena Stein in 1999, he served as the joint director of the newly-founded Africa Centre for Population and Reproductive Health Research in a rural site in Kwazulu/Natal, South Africa. Dr. Susser has published 263 peer-reviewed papers, 101 miscellaneous papers, and 10 books. In 2002, an auditorium was dedicated to Mervyn Susser and Zena Stein at the Africa Centre for Health and Population Studies, Hlabisa, KwaZulu, and in 2004 the Susser & Stein Auditorium was named at Doris Duke Research Institute, Nelson Mandela School of Medicine, Natal University.
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