Dustin T. Duncan, ScD, is Associate Professor of Epidemiology at
the Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health, where he
directs the Columbia Spatial Epidemiology Lab and codirects the
Social and Spatial Epidemiology Unit. In addition to HIV and sleep
epidemiology, his interests include characterizing the COVID-19
epidemic, especially among marginalized populations. He has
received several early-career and distinguished scientific
contribution, mentoring, and leadership awards from organizations
such as the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, the
Interdisciplinary Association for Population Health Science and the
National Academy of Medicine.
Ichiro Kawachi, MBChB, PhD, is John L. Loeb and Frances Lehman Loeb
Professor of Social Epidemiology at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of
Public Health. Dr. Kawachi is also co-editor of the eponymous first
textbook on Social Epidemiology, published by Oxford University
Press in 2000. He is an elected member of the Institute of Medicine
of the US National Academy of Sciences and an Honorary Fellow of
the Royal Society of New Zealand.
Stephen S. Morse, PhD, is Professor of Epidemiology at the Columbia
University Mailman School of Public Health. His research focuses on
epidemiology and risk assessment of emerging infectious diseases,
and improving disease early warning systems. His book, Emerging
Viruses (Oxford University Press, 1993) was selected by American
Scientist as one of the "100 Top Science Books of the 20th
Century." He served on the Steering Committee of the Institute of
Medicine's Forum
on Microbial Threats, and on numerous National Academies of
Sciences and international committees. He is a Fellow of the
American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) and the
American Academy of Microbiology.
Sir Michael Marmot, CH, MBBS, MPH, PhD, FRCP, FFPHM, FMedSci, FBA,
is Professor of Epidemiology and Director of the Institute of
Health Equity at the University College London.
The COVID-19 pandemic showed, yet again, that the consequences of
pandemics emerge from far more than the pathogen itself. They
emerge from the social conditions that set the stage for who
becomes sick, who lives, and who dies. This book offers a
comprehensive account of the social forces that created the
COVID-19 pandemic and points to lessons we would be wise to learn
if we are to mitigate the next pandemic.
*Sandro Galea, MD, DrPH, Dean and Robert A. Knox Professor, School
of Public Health, Boston University*
The distribution and control of disease in human populations has
always been profoundly and inextricably social. As these authors
skillfully and exhaustively demonstrate, the COVID-19 pandemic
serves as a paradigmatic case study of the social determinants of
exposure, infection, and disease. Race, gender, class, and power
all play starring roles in this terrible saga, along with work,
housing, policing and trust. This book provides a comprehensive
account of how to understand mass disease in terms of a society out
of joint.
*Jay S. Kaufman, PhD, Professor, School of Population and Global
Health, McGill University*
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