Allan Brandt

Allan Brandt, MD

Amalie Moses Kass Professor of the History of Medicine, Department of Social Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Harvard Medical School
Harvard Medical SchoolDepartment of Global Health and Social Medicine641 Huntington AveBoston MA 02115
617-432-4365

Allan Brandt, MD, focuses on social and ethical aspects of health, disease, and medical practices in the twentieth century United States. He is the author of The Cigarette Century (2007) and No Magic Bullet: A Social History of Venereal Disease in the United States since 1880 (1987); and the editor of Morality and Health (1997). He has written on the social history of epidemic disease; the history of public health and health policy; the history of human subject research; and the social and cultural history of smoking in the U.S., among other topics. In 1998, he was elected to the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences, and in 2001 he was elected as a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He was named a Dr. William Cahan Distinguished Professor by the Flight Attendants Medical Research Institute in 2003. In September 2004, he testified as an expert witness for the U.S. Department of Justice in U.S. v Philip Morris et al.