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Barry S. Levy (born 1944) is a physician and former president of the American Public Health Association.

A graduate of Tufts University (B.S., 1966), he holds an M.P.H. (1970) from the Harvard School of Public Health, and completed his M.D. (1971) at Weill Cornell Medicine.[1] He completed his internal medicine residency at University Hospital and the Beth Israel Hospital (now Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center) in Boston, and a preventive medicine residency at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.[2]

He currently is an adjunct professor of community and public health at Tufts University School of Medicine. He formerly was a medical epidemiologist with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, a professor at the University of Massachusetts Chan Medical School, and director of international public health programs. He served in a variety of roles in the American Public Health Association.

With Victor W. Sidel, he is the author of War and Public Health, Terrorism and Public Health, and other books.[3][4] Levy is a coauthor of Occupational and Environmental Health: Recognizing and Preventing Disease and Injury, a textbook in public health.[5] Levy edited Preventing Occupational Disease and Injury (2005), published by the American Public Health Association.[6] In 2015, he authored Climate Change and Public Health with Jonathan Patz.[7] In 2022 he published From Horror to Hope: Recognizing and Preventing the Health Impacts of War.[8]

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References

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  1. ^ "Barry Levy, M.D., M.P.H." Tufts University Faculty Profiles. Retrieved 2023-04-14.
  2. ^ "Barry Levy". The Forum at Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health. 2015-12-07. Retrieved 2023-04-14.
  3. ^ Levy, Barry S.; Sidel, Victor W. (2000). War and Public Health. American Public Health Association. ISBN 0-87553-023-0.
  4. ^ Levy, Barry S.; Sidel, Victor W. (2006-11-16). Terrorism and Public Health: A Balanced Approach to Strengthening Systems and Protecting People. Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-532525-7.
  5. ^ Levy, Barry S.; Wegman, David H.; Baron, Sherry L.; Sokas, Rosemary K. (2005-11-01). Occupational and Environmental Health: Recognizing and Preventing Disease and Injury. Lippincott Williams & Wilkins. ISBN 0-7817-5551-4.
  6. ^ Wagner, Gregory R.; Rest, Kathleen M. (2005). Levy, Barry S. (ed.). Preventing Occupational Disease and Injury. American Public Health Association. ISBN 978-0-87553-043-7.
  7. ^ Climate Change and Public Health. Oxford University Press. 30 July 2015. ISBN 978-0-19-020245-3.
  8. ^ From Horror to Hope: Recognizing and Preventing the Health Impacts of War. Oxford, New York: Oxford University Press. 2022-05-06. ISBN 978-0-19-764597-0.
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