Professor Dr. David Abramson

Biography

David Abramson is a Clinical Professor at NYU’s School of Global Public Health, where he directs the Population Impact, Recovery Resilience (PiR2) research program. His work employs a social ecological framework to examine the health consequences of disasters and the resilience of individuals and communities to acute collective stressors. He has focused on the population health ramifications of various disasters, including hurricanes Katrina and Sandy, the Joplin tornado, the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, and health crises like H1N1 and Zika. Before joining NYU, he served as the Deputy Director of Columbia University’s National Center for Disaster Preparedness at the Earth Institute. Abramson launched the Gulf Coast Child and Family Health study in 2005, a longitudinal cohort study of 1,000 Katrina survivors, and has collaborated on the Sandy Child and Family Health study, modeled after the Katrina study. He has also contributed to research funded by the National Science Foundation and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation regarding the evolving threat of the Zika virus. As an active member of the National Academies of Medicine, he participates in committees focused on public health research and emergency preparedness. Prior to his academic career, Abramson was a national magazine journalist and a certified paramedic. He holds a PhD in Sociomedical Sciences with a specialization in Political Science, an MPH from Columbia University, and a BA in English from Queens College, New York.

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