Dr. Thomas Frieden
Dr. Thomas Frieden, commissioner of the New York City Department of Health and acting commissioner of the NYC Department of Mental Health, Mental Retardation and Alcoholism Services, will be the guest of Weill Cornell's Department of Public Health as the Lorraine and Ralph Lubin Visiting Professor on June 12.
A world-renowned expert in tuberculosis control, Dr. Frieden is distinguished by a 20-year career in public health, working as an epidemiologist, administrator, teacher, researcher, clinician and community organizer. Having recently spent five years in India, assisting in a government effort to control tuberculosis, Dr. Frieden has returned to lead New York City's efforts to address new and emerging disease threats, including those posed by biological terrorism. Dr. Frieden will present the featured Lubin Visiting Professor Lecture at the David Rogers Health Policy Colloquium on Wednesday, June 12, at 1 p.m. in Weill Auditorium. His topic will be "Public Health in the 21st Century."
The Lorraine and Ralph Lubin Visiting Professorship, the first endowed visiting professorship for the Department of Public Health, was created in 2000 with a gift from Dr. Madelon Lubin Finkel and her family. Dr. Finkel, a Weill Cornell professor of clinical public health, has been a member of the Public Health faculty since 1977, and serves as course director. She is also director of Cornell Analytical Consulting.
The first Lubin Visiting Professor Lecture was delivered in February 2001. The June 12 presentation by Dr. Frieden will be the second lecture sponsored by the endowment.