Background:
Dr. Ezra Susser is Head of the Department of Epidemiology at the Mailman School of Public Health of Columbia University, and Department Head, Epidemiology of brain disorders at the New York State Psychiatric Institute. His primary research has been on the epidemiology of psychotic disorders. He has studied the interrelationships between homelessness and psychotic disorders; compared psychotic disorders in low and high income countries; and related prenatal exposures to the risk of schizophrenia in adulthood. Starting from his early work on homelessness, and later work on HIV, Dr. Susser has also focused on the health of inner city urban populations, and was formerly director of the Center for Urban Epidemiologic Studies at the New York Academy of Medicine. He has published on the development of epidemiology as a discipline: genetic epidemiology, psychiatric epidemiology, and epidemiology more generally.
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