Harvey V. Fineberg

Harvey V. Fineberg

Harvey Fineberg is President of the Institute of Medicine. He served as Provost of Harvard University from 1997 to 2001, following thirteen years as Dean of the Harvard School of Public Health. He has devoted most of his academic career to the fields of health policy and medical decision making. His past research has focused on the process of policy development and implementation, assessment of medical technology, evaluation and use of vaccines, and dissemination of medical innovations.

Dr. Fineberg helped found and served as president of the [http://www.smdm.org/ Society for Medical Decision Making] and also served as consultant to the World Health Organization.

At the Institute of Medicine, he has chaired and served on a number of panels dealing with health policy issues, ranging from AIDS to new medical technology. He also served as a member of the Public Health Council of Massachusetts (1976-1979), as chairman of the Health Care Technology Study Section of the National Center for Health Services Research (1982-1985), and as president of the [http://www.asph.org/ Association of Schools of Public Health] (1995-1996).

Dr. Fineberg is co-author of the books "Clinical Decision Analysis", "Innovators in Physician Education", and "The Epidemic that Never Was", an analysis of the controversial federal immunization program against swine flu in 1976. He has co-edited several books on such diverse topics as AIDS prevention, vaccine safety, and understanding risk in society. He has also authored numerous articles published in professional journals. In 1988, he received the Joseph W. Mountin Prize from the Centers for Disease Control and the Wade Hampton Frost Prize from the Epidemiology Section of the American Public Health Association. Dr. Fineberg earned an A.B. in 1967 from Harvard College, an M.D. in 1971 from Harvard Medical School, a Master of Public Policy from the Kennedy School of Government in 1972, and a Ph.D. in Government from Harvard's Graduate School of Arts and Sciences in 1980.

Fineberg served his medical residency at Beth Israel Hospital, Boston, and was a fellow in Harvard's Society of Fellows. He worked as a practicing physician at two Boston-area health centers from 1974 to 1984. He taught at the Kennedy School of Government from 1973 to 1981, and served on the faculty at the Harvard School of Public Health from 1973 to 1984, when he became the school's dean.

Dr. Fineberg is married to Mary E. Wilson, a former associate professor at Harvard Medical School and Harvard School of Public Health.

References

* [http://iom.edu/CMS/AboutIOM/4081.aspx Biography]

External links

* [http://www.iom.edu Institute of Medicine]
* [http://www.harvard.edu/ Harvard University]
* [http://www.hsph.harvard.edu/ Harvard School of Public Health]
* [http://www.smdm.org/ Society for Medical Decision Making]
* [http://www.who.int/en/ World Health Organization]
* [http://www.cdc.gov/ Centers for Disease Control]
* [http://www.apha.org/ American Public Health Association]
* VIDEO: [http://videos.med.wisc.edu/videoInfo.php?videoid=78 Efficiency and Quality in Health Care] , Harvey Fineberg speaks at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health


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