Sandro Galea

Sandro Galea, a physician, epidemiologist, and author, is dean and Robert A. Knox Professor at Boston University School of Public Health. He previously held academic and leadership positions at Columbia University, the University of Michigan, and the New York Academy of Medicine. He has published extensively in the peer-reviewed literature and is a regular contributor to a range of public media about the social causes of health, mental health, and the consequences of trauma. He has been listed as one of the most widely cited scholars in the social sciences. He is chair of the board of the Association of Schools and Programs of Public Health and past president of the Society for Epidemiologic Research and of the Interdisciplinary Association for Population Health Science. He is an elected member of the National Academy of Medicine. Galea has received several lifetime achievement awards. Galea holds a medical degree from the University of Toronto, graduate degrees from Harvard University and Columbia University, and an honorary doctorate from the University of Glasgow.

 

Workers clean the area around the podium before a coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak task force press conference in the briefing room at the White House in Washington, D.C. on April 13, 2020. This is a striking image for its subject matter. It's a shot of the podium we don't normally see—empty of politicians and instead a worker in protective gear is cleaning the White House emblem. REUTERS/Leah Millis
Governance

Politics May Kill Us, Not the Coronavirus

by Eduardo J. Gómez, Sandro Galea

In these times of pandemic, crisis, and despair we need more bipartisan support for rational actions informed by science

A general view of shacks during a nationwide twenty-one day pandemic lockdown in an attempt to contain coronavirus infections in Umlazi township near Durban, South Africa, on March 31, 2020. The photo shows a hillside covered with tin shacks, some colorfully painted. REUTERS/Rogan Ward
Urbanization

Africa and Coronavirus—Will Lockdowns Work?

by Salma Abdalla, Sandro Galea

Here's why countries in Africa should chart their own paths in responding to the COVID-19 pandemic—and two ways they can