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The urban brain: new directions in research exploring the relation between cities and mood–anxiety disorders
Author(s) -
Galea Sandro
Publication year - 2011
Publication title -
depression and anxiety
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.634
H-Index - 129
eISSN - 1520-6394
pISSN - 1091-4269
DOI - 10.1002/da.20868
Subject(s) - public health , anxiety , library science , epidemiology , mood , psychology , gerontology , medicine , psychiatry , computer science , nursing
Sandro Galea, M.D. M.P.H. Dr.PH., is a physician and an epidemiologist. He is the Anna Cheskis Gelman and Murray Charles Gelman Professor and Chair of the Department of Epidemiology at the Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health. Dr. Galea’s primary research has been on the causes of mental disorders, particularly common mood–anxiety disorders and substance abuse, and on the role of traumatic events in shaping population health. His research program seeks to uncover how determinants at multiple levels of influence— including policies, features of the social environment, molecular, and genetic factors—jointly produce the health of urban populations. Dr. Galea has conducted large population-based studies in several countries worldwide including the US, Spain, Israel, Ethiopia, Tanzania, and Liberia, primarily funded by the National Institutes of Health. Dr. Galea’s interest in the complex etiology of health and disease has led him to work that explores innovative methodological approaches to population health questions primarily funded by a Robert Wood Johnson Health Policy Investigator Award. Dr. Galea did his graduate training at the University of Toronto Medical School, at the Harvard University School of Public Health, and at the Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health.