July 6, 2005
Michael B. Bracken, Susan Dwight Bliss Professor of Epidemiology, Obstetrics and Gynecology, and Neurology and Co-Director of the Yale Center for Perinatal Pediatric and Environmental Epidemiology, has been elected the next President of the Society for Epidemiologic Research, the largest epidemiological society in the world.
Professor Bracken is a former President of the American College of Epidemiology, and previously served as Head of Chronic Disease Epidemiology in Yale Medical School. Internationally known for his research on the diseases of pregnancy and newborns, and neurological injury, he has published over 275 papers and two books in the scientific literature. Earlier this year Professor Bracken was elected a Fellow of Green College, Oxford University.