Abram Salmon Benenson
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Abram Salmon Benenson (1914 – December 15, 2003) was an authority in
preventive medicine, military medicine, and "shoe-leather" epidemiology. He was best known as the editor-in-chief (1970 to 1995) for the Control of Communicable Diseases Manual of the American Public Health Association
. His tenure as editor was so lengthy that the manual was often known as the "Benenson Book".
Biography
Benenson graduated from
Dacca, Bangladesh, and of the Gorgas Memorial Laboratory in Panama. He retired from the military in 1962 as a colonel
.
Benenson then served on numerous commissions and committees throughout his long civilian career, for which his expertise in
Jefferson Medical College, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; the Department of Community Medicine, University of Kentucky College of Medicine in Lexington; and the Division of Epidemiology and Biostatistics at the Graduate School of Public Health at San Diego State University
in California.
Awards and honors
- Joseph E. Smadel Memorial lecture (1981)
- Commander's Award for Civilian Service (1983)
- K. F. Meyer Gold-Headed Cane from the American Veterinary Epidemiological Society (1984).
- Distinguished Civilian Service Award (1990)
- American Public Health Association's Award for Excellence in (1991)
- American Public Health Association's John Snow Award (1992)
- The Benenson Distinguished Lecture, inaugurated on 13 April 2007, in conjunction with the 25th anniversary of the Graduate School of Public Health, San Diego State University will be an annual lecture series at the GSPH.
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