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The Distinguished Alumni Investigator Lecture is delivered by the recipient of the annual Alumni Award for Scientific Excellence. This award recognizes a graduate who has made significant contributions to the field of public health through demonstrated commitment and exemplary leadership.
 

2011 “Double-Feature” Event

Dominik D. Alexander, PhD, MSPH
Senior Managing Epidemiologist
Exponent Inc. Health Sciences Practice
UAB School of Public Health Scientific Alumnus of the Year
“Epidemiologic Consulting and a Case Study on Red Meat Intake and
Cancer”

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  Robert William Fogel
  Professor of Economics
  University of Chicago Booth School of Business
  Nobel Laureate
  “The Changing Body: Health, Nutrition, and Human Development in the
  Western World since 1700 [tentative title]”

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Dr. Alexander has extensive experience in nutritional epidemiology, health research methodology, particularly in the conceptualization, design, analysis, and interpretation of epidemiologic studies and has published on a diverse range of topics and types of studies, including original epidemiologic research, qualitative reviews, and quantitative meta-analyses. Dr. Fogel is best known as one of the original proponents of cliometrics, the application of quantitative methods to the study of economics and history. In recent years, his research has focused on the economics and biodemography of aging as related to nutrition. He received the Nobel Prize in economics in 1993 and was recognized as the Indispensible Person of the Year for Health Research by the Alliance for Aging Research in 2006.

Co-Sponsored by
School of Public Health Office of Alumni Relations
Department of Biostatistics
Department of Epidemiology
Department of Health Care Organization & Policy
Lister Hill Center for Health Policy
Department of Nutrition Sciences
Comprehensive Arthritis, Musculoskeletal and Autoimmunity Center Diabetes Research & Treatment Center
Office of the Vice President for Research and Economic Development
Office of Post‐Doctoral Education Office of the Dean of the Graduate School

Office of the Dean of the School of Medicine
Office of the Provost

• 2010 -  Cora E. (Beth) Lewis, MD, MSPH (1990)
• 2009 – Lee M.E. Morin, MD, PhD, MPH
• 2007 – Steven Piantadosi, MD, PhD
• 2006 – Lynn Wagenknecht, DrPH

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