Alfredo Morabia

Morabia completed his undergraduate studies at Collège Calvin in Geneva in 1971, majoring in Greek and Latin.^[10] After receiving his M.D. from the School of Medicine at the University of Geneva in 1978, he was trained in internal medicine at the University Hospital of Geneva and in occupational medicine in Italy.^[1] In 2009, he was appointed Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.

In 1986, Morabia received a grant from the Swiss National Science Foundation to study at the Johns Hopkins School of Hygiene and Public Health, where he obtained M.P.H. and Ph.D. degrees in epidemiology^[11] and an M.H.S. in biostatistics.

In August 1990, he became chair of the Clinical Epidemiology Unit at the University Hospital of Geneva.^[12] The unit grew into a division, and Morabia was subsequently appointed professor of clinical epidemiology at the University of Geneva.^[1] In 1992, he created the "Bus Santé 2000" (Health Bus 2000) which is still in operation 30 years later.^[13]

Morabia has written and edited several books on epidemiology and public health. In 2004, he edited and contributed to A History of Epidemiologic Methods and Concepts and in 2014, he was supported by a grant from the National Library of Medicine (NLM) to write Enigmas of Health and Disease: How Epidemiology Helps Unravel Scientific Mysteries.^[14] In 2023, he published his first book on the history of public health, The Public Health Approach, also funded by an NLM grant.^[15]

• "Cutter Symposium: Celebrating 100 Years (and more) of Epidemiology at Harvard" Archived 19 December 2013 at the Wayback Machine, video of a keynote lecture at Harvard School of Public Health, 8 November 2013
• "Epi Seminar Series: How Epidemiology has become infatuated with methods?"