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He then attended Columbia University where he received his Doctor of Philosophy (1983) in American history.
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Allan Morris
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Brandt received his Bachelor of Arts in history from Brandeis University in 1974. He has written on the social history of epidemic disease. The history of public health and health policy.
And the history of human experimentation among other topics.
In 1998, he was elected to the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences. In September 2004, he testified as an expert witness for the United States. Department of Justice in United States. v Philip Morris et al.
The federal district court judge in the case found that the companies had violated racketeering and fraud (RICO) statutes over a fifty year period. He was co-author of a 1985 article about Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome in Harper"son
Brandt is a fellow of the Hastings Center, a bioethics research center.
Achievements
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2011 The William H. Welch Medal of the American Association for the History of Medicine 2008 Bancroft Prize 2007 Albert J. Beveridge Award from the American Historical Association and the Arthur Viseltear Prize from the American Public Health Association for The Cigarette Century: The Rise, Fall, and Deadly Persistence of the Product that Defined America.
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Beveridge Award; Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction; Arts and Sciences; Viseltear Prize; Bancroft Prize 2011 The William H. Welch Medal of the American Association for the History of Medicine 2008 Bancroft Prize 2007 Albert J. Beveridge Award from the American Historical Association and the Arthur Viseltear Prize from the American Public Health Association for The Cigarette Century: The Rise, Fall, and Deadly Persistence of the Product that Defined America The Albert J. Beveridge Award was established in 1939 in memory of United States Senator Beveridge of Indiana, former secretary and longtime member of the American Historical Association (AHA), through a gift from his wife, Catherine Beveridge and donations from AHA members from his home state.; The Bancroft Prize is awarded each year by the trustees of Columbia University for books about diplomacy or the history of the Americas.Beveridge Award; Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction; Arts and Sciences; Viseltear Prize; Bancroft Prize 2011 The William H. Welch Medal of the American Association for the History of Medicine 2008 Bancroft Prize 2007 Albert J. Beveridge Award from the American Historical Association and the Arthur Viseltear Prize from the American Public Health Association for The Cigarette Century: The Rise, Fall, and Deadly Persistence of the Product that Defined America The Albert J. Beveridge Award was established in 1939 in memory of United States Senator Beveridge of Indiana, former secretary and longtime member of the American Historical Association (AHA), through a gift from his wife, Catherine Beveridge and donations from AHA members from his home state.; The Bancroft Prize is awarded each year by the trustees of Columbia University for books about diplomacy or the history of the Americas.