Jacob Allan Brody

Background

Brody, Jacob Allan was born on May 5, 1931 in Brooklyn. Son of Simon and Rosella (Mindell) Brody.

Education

Bachelor of Arts cum laude, Williams College, 1952; Doctor of Medicine State University of New York (Downstate College Medicine), 1956.

Career

Intern, Roosevelt Hospital, New York City, 1956-1957; commissioned medical officer, United States Public Health Service Communicable Disease Center, Atlanta, 1957-1959; medical officer in epidemiology and virology, National Institute Allergy and Infectious Diseases National Institutes of Health, Panama, 1960-1961; chief epidemiology section, Arctic Health Research Center, Anchorage, Alaska., 1962-1964; chief epidemiology branch, National Institute Neurological Diseases and Stroke National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland., 1965-1975; epidemiology branch, National Institute Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism, Alcohol, Drug Abuse and Mental Health Administration, Rockville, Maryland., 1976-1977; associate director epidemiology, demography, biometry program, National Institute on Aging National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, 1977-1985; dean School Public Health, University of Illinois, Chicago, 1985-1992; professor epidemology, School Public Health, since 1985. Director Gerontology Center University of Illinois, Chicago, 1985, professor research medicine College Medicine, 1985 disting professor preventive medicine Rush Medical College, Chicago, 1986. Exchange scientist, Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics, 1962.

Research coordinator Atomic Bomb Casualty Commission, Hiroshima, Japan, 1974. Senior associate department epidemiology Johns Hopkins University School Hygiene and Public Health. Member National Multiple Sclerosis Society.

Medical advisory board and advisory commission on research on etiology, diagnosis, natural history, prevention and therapy, 1966. Director science advisory committee Muscular Dystrophy Association American, Inc., 1971. Vice chairperson blue ribbon study commission on alcoholism and aging National Council on Alcoholism, 1980.

Member science advising committee American Foundation for Aging Research, since 1982. Board directors American Federation for Aging Research, since 1987.

Achievements

• Jacob Allan Brody has been listed as a noteworthy Epidemiologist by Marquis Who's Who.

Membership

Member American Epidemiological Society (president 1980-1981), American Public Health Association (president gerontological health section 1985-1987), World Federation Neurology, American Society Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, American Academy Neurology, Society for Epidemiologic Research, Research Society on Alcoholism, Undersea Medical Society, Gerontological Society American, American College Epidemiology (board directors), The Economics Club ofChgo.

Connections

Married Ann Thomas, September 6, 1969. Children: Thomas, Eva.

Father:

Simon Brody

Mother:

Rosella (Mindell) Brody

Spouse:

Ann Thomas

child:

Thomas Brody

child:

Eva Brody