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Professor of Epidemiology, Mailman School of Public Health
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Professor of Psychiatry, College of Physicians and Surgeons
Co-Director, Statistics and Epidemiology, HIV Center for Clinical and Behavior Studies (NYSPI)
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| Ezra S. Susser, MD, DrPH, focuses on examining the role of early life experience in health and disease throughout the life course. He heads the Imprints Center for Genetic and Environmental Lifecourse Studies, which fosters collaborative research and intellectual exchange among investigators studying developmental origins in birth cohorts across the globe. As one example, the findings from a series of studies have suggested that exposure to famine in early gestation is associated with increased schizophrenia among offspring. Much of Dr. Susser’s early work focused on the course of schizophrenia and especially on social outcomes. In his early research career he was involved in follow-up studies of psychoses in the United States and across the globe, including the WHO International Study of Schizophrenia. He also conducted studies of homelessness and its prevention among patients with schizophrenia. This work included the development and testing of the initial version of Critical Time Intervention (CTI) for prevention of recurrent homelessness. Dr. Susser is associate editor of the International Journal of Epidemiology, and former chair of the Department of Epidemiology at the Mailman School of Public Health (1999-2008).
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