Harvey Fineberg | |
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 Fineberg in 2021 | |
| Born | Harvey Vernon Fineberg (1945-09-15)September 15, 1945 (age 80) |
| Education | Harvard University (BA,MD,MPP,PhD) |
| Awards | Calderone Prize (2011) |
Harvey Vernon Fineberg (born September 15, 1945) is an American physician. A noted researcher in 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 ofvaccines, and dissemination of medical innovations. Fineberg has held several prominent positions over the course of his career, including Dean of theHarvard School of Public Health, Provost ofHarvard University, and President of theInstitute of Medicine, now the National Academy of Medicine.
Fineberg earned anA.B. in 1967 fromHarvard College and aM.D. in 1971 fromHarvard Medical School. He completed a residency in internal medicine atBeth Israel Hospital, a Harvard-affiliated hospital in Boston. He worked as a practicing physician at two Boston-area health centers from 1974 to 1984.
In addition to his clinical training, Fineberg earned aM.P.P. fromHarvard Kennedy School in 1972 and aPh.D. in Government from Harvard'sGraduate School of Arts and Sciences in 1980. He was selected as a member of theHarvard Society of Fellows.
He taught at Harvard Kennedy School 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. He led the School of Public Health for 13 years before becoming the University Provost for 4 more years. In 2002, he became president of theInstitute of Medicine (now National Academy of Medicine), where he ended his tenure in 2014.
Dr. Fineberg is co-author of the booksClinical Decision Analysis,Innovators in Physician Education, andThe Epidemic that Never Was, also published under the titleThe Swine Flu Affair, 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.
Fineberg helped found and served as president of theSociety for Medical Decision Making and also served as consultant to theWorld Health Organization. At the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine, he chaired and served on a number of panels dealing with health and science policy issues, includingAIDS, vaccine safety, and reproducibility and replicability in scientific research. He has 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 theAssociation of Schools of Public Health (1995–1996). Additionally, he served on the boards of a number of philanthropic organizations, including theWilliam and Flora Hewlett Foundation, theJosiah Macy, Jr. Foundation, theFrançois-Xavier Bagnoud Foundation (USA), and theChina Medical Board. He is a member of theAmerican Academy of Arts and Sciences and theAmerican Philosophical Society.
He has received numerous awards and prizes, including theJoseph W. Mountin Prize from theCenters for Disease Control, the Wade Hampton Frost Prize from the Epidemiology Section of theAmerican Public Health Association, theCalderone Prize in Public Health fromColumbia University's Mailman School of Public Health, awarded Dr. Fineberg the highest prize in public health, from Academyhealth, and honorary degrees from a number of universities, including a Doctor of Laws from Harvard University in 2018.[1]
From 2013 until 2018, Fineberg served as chairperson of theCarnegie Endowment for International Peace. He was succeeded by former U.S. secretary of commercePenny Pritzker in May 2018.[2] He is presently the president of theGordon and Betty Moore Foundation. And he has been member of the advisory board of thePeter G. Peterson Foundation.
Fineberg is married to Dr. Mary E. Wilson, a noted expert in infectious diseases, travel medicine, and global health and adjunct professor atHarvard School of Public Health and visiting professor at University of California, San Francisco.
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