Three Yale faculty members were elected to the prestigious Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences.
The three are: Dr. Michael Merson, the Anna M.R. Lauder Professor and dean of public health at the School of Medicine and chair of the Department of Epidemiology and Public Health; Dr. Richard Lifton, professor and chair of genetics, an investigator with the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, professor of molecular biophysics and biochemistry, and professor of internal medicine (nephrology); and Dr. Michele Barry, professor of medicine and public health as well as director of the Office of International Health.
Current active members elect new members from among candidates chosen for their major contributions to health and medicine or to related fields, such as social and behavioral sciences, law, administration and economics.
Merson has an interest in a number of domestic and global public health issues, specifically AIDS; Lifton is a world-renowned geneticist; and Barry is president of the American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene.
The Institute of Medicine was established in 1970 as a unit of the National Academy of Sciences and is broadly based in the biomedical sciences and health professions, as well as related aspects of the behavioral and social sciences, administration, law, the physical sciences and engineering.
The institute is concerned with the protection and advancement of the health professions and sciences, the promotion of research and development pertinent to health, and the improvement of health care.
In the pursuit of the institute's mission, members study specific problems and formulate recommendations. Its current projects include a study on how best to assure the health of the public in the 21st century; a review of the current state of knowledge and policy regarding microbial threats to health; an assessment of the overall system of protections for human participants in research studies; a project examining the long-term medical and social results of cancer treatment and survival; and a series of six reports on Americans who lack health insurance and the consequences for them and society.
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