28 Jan 2025, Φ Social epidemiologist Len Syme (UC Berkeley) passed away two days ago

28.1.2025, Social epidemiologist Len Syme (UC Berkeley) passed away two days ago

https://publichealth.berkeley.edu/news-media/faculty-honors/in-memoriam/s-leonard-syme-dies-at-92: … Leonard Syme … passed away … on January 26, 2025, in Cabo San Lucas, Mexico. He was 92 … “Len was … the father of social epidemiology, and one of the most beloved teachers and mentors Berkeley Public Health has ever had,” said Michael C. Lu, dean of the UC Berkeley School of Public Health. “… He pioneered the study of social determinants of health, which has fundamentally transformed medicine and public health and continues to shape research, practice, and public policy today … around the world.” … he demonstrated the impact that such factors as poverty, stress, social class, and social isolation have on health. His research examined these psychosocial stressors …: bus drivers in San Francisco, civil servants in London, and Japanese men at home and abroad … Syme’s drive to examine the psychosocial factors that compromise one’s ability to stay healthy—rather than following the traditional medical model to study the etiology of individual diseases—has become such a mainstay of public health thinking that it’s hard to remember that it was, during the 1960s and much of the 1970s, heresy …

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Added 7 Feb 2025:

The Daily Californian (6 Feb 2025): “Father of social epidemiology”: professor emeritus S. Leonard Syme dies at 92, https://www.dailycal.org/news/obituary-news/father-of-social-epidemiology-professor-emeritus-s-leonard-syme-dies-at-92/article_6c3fa058-dee5-11ef-a881-c347d2f75589.html

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