19 Facts About Sandro Galea

Sandro Galea was born on April 24,1971 and is a physician, epidemiologist, and author.

Sandro Galea is the inaugural Margaret C Ryan Dean at the School of Public Health at Washington University in St Louis.

Sandro Galea is an elected member of the National Academy of Medicine and has received awards for his research, including the Michael J McGinnis Award from the Interdisciplinary Association for Population Health Science, the Wade Hampton Frost and the Rema Lapouse Awards from the American Public Health Association, and the Robert S Laufer Award from the International Society for Traumatic Stress.

Sandro Galea's work has focused on the social causes of health, mental health, and trauma.

Sandro Galea has edited and authored books including Well: What We Need to Talk About When We Talk About Health, The Contagion Next Time, and Healthier: Fifty Thoughts on the Foundations of Population Health.

Sandro Galea completed his undergraduate studies in cell and molecular biology at University of Toronto in 1990.

Early in his career, Sandro Galea worked as an emergency physician in Ontario district hospitals and as a project physician for Medecins Sans Frontieres in Somalia.

Sandro Galea is an elected member of the National Academy of Medicine.

Sandro Galea worked as a medical epidemiologist at the New York Academy of Medicine's Center for Urban Epidemiologic Studies from 2000 to 2005 and was promoted to associate director in 2002.

From 2010 to 2014, Sandro Galea was the chair and Gelman Professor in the Department of Epidemiology at Columbia University.

Sandro Galea served as president of the Society for Epidemiologic Research from 2012 to 2013.

Sandro Galea was president of the Interdisciplinary Association for Population Health Science between 2017 and 2019.

Sandro Galea has served as an associate editor of the American Journal of Epidemiology from 2010 to 2024.

Sandro Galea was appointed as the Editor-in-Chief of Jama Health Forum.

Sandro Galea's research has highlighted the link between specific social environment factors and the incidence, comorbidity, and progression of anxiety, mood, and substance use disorders.

Sandro Galea's work focused into the causes and effects of accidental drug overdose, leading to public health interventions aimed at reducing overdose-related morbidity and mortality in urban areas.

Sandro Galea developed a dynamic model of social and economic vulnerabilities to explain variations in population health and introduced innovative analytic methods to connect health outcomes with complex social processes.

Sandro Galea's work documented the mental health sequelae of many of the largest human-made and natural disasters worldwide.

Sandro Galea's research established that the impact of mass traumatic events extends beyond the immediate victims to populations not directly exposed to the events.