field list

A course in Public Health

The people who built public health as we practise it, in the order they arrived.

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The Seven Countries Study put diet at the centre of cardiovascular prevention.

Wrote New Acupuncture (1951) and led the state institute that standardised the practice.

Linked dietary fibre to Western disease patterns after describing Burkitt's lymphoma in Uganda.

Co-led the Adverse Childhood Experiences study linking childhood trauma to lifelong disease.

His 1993 survey of unconventional therapy use forced US medicine to take the field seriously.

Directed the NIH Office of Alternative Medicine and built the evidence agenda for whole-person care.