Harvey V. Fineberg

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Harvey Fineberg
Fineberg in 2021
Born
Harvey Vernon Fineberg

(1945-09-15) September 15, 1945 (age 78)
EducationHarvard University (BA, MD, MPP, PhD)
AwardsCalderone Prize (2011)

Harvey Vernon Fineberg (born September 15, 1945) is an American physician. A noted researcher in the fields of health policy and medical decision making, his past research has focused on the process of policy development and implementation, assessment of medical technology, evaluation and use of

Harvard School of Public Health, Provost of Harvard University, and President of the Institute of Medicine
, now the National Academy of Medicine.

Education and training

Fineberg earned an A.B. in 1967 from Harvard College and a M.D. in 1971 from Harvard Medical School. He completed a residency in internal medicine at Beth Israel Hospital, a Harvard-affiliated hospital in Boston. He worked as a practicing physician at two Boston-area health centers from 1974 to 1984.

In addition to his clinical training, Fineberg earned a

Graduate School of Arts and Sciences in 1980. He was selected as a member of the Harvard Society of Fellows
.

Academic career

He taught at Harvard Kennedy School from 1973 to 1981, and served on the faculty at the Harvard School of Public Health from 1973 to 1984, when he became the school's dean. He led the School of Public Health for 13 years before becoming the University Provost for 4 more years. In 2002, he became president of the Institute of Medicine (now National Academy of Medicine), where he ended his tenure in 2014.

Harvey Fineberg in 2021 by Christopher Michel

Dr. Fineberg is co-author of the books Clinical Decision Analysis, Innovators in Physician Education, and The Epidemic that Never Was, also published under the title The Swine Flu Affair, an analysis of the controversial federal immunization program against swine flu in 1976. He has co-edited several books on such diverse topics as AIDS prevention, vaccine safety, and understanding risk in society. He has also authored numerous articles published in professional journals.

Fineberg helped found and served as president of the

Josiah Macy, Jr. Foundation, the François-Xavier Bagnoud Foundation (USA), and the China Medical Board. He is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the American Philosophical Society
.

He has received numerous awards and prizes, including the

Centers for Disease Control, the Wade Hampton Frost Prize from the Epidemiology Section of the American Public Health Association, the Calderone Prize in Public Health from Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health, awarded Dr. Fineberg the highest prize in public health, from Academyhealth, and honorary degrees from a number of universities, including a Doctor of Laws from Harvard University in 2018.[1]

From 2013 until 2018, Fineberg served as chairperson of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. He was succeeded by former U.S. secretary of commerce Penny Pritzker in May 2018.[2] He is presently the president of the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation. And he has been member of the advisory board of the Peter G. Peterson Foundation.

Personal life

Fineberg is married to Dr. Mary E. Wilson, a noted expert in infectious diseases, travel medicine, and global health and adjunct professor at

Harvard School of Public Health
and visiting professor at University of California, San Francisco.

References

  1. ^ "Harvard awards seven honorary degrees". May 24, 2018. Retrieved May 1, 2021.
  2. ^ "Penny Pritzker Elected Chairman of the Board for the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace". Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. February 22, 2018. Retrieved October 11, 2018.

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