People
Allan M. Brandt
Dean, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences;
Professor of the History of Science;
Amalie Moses Kass Professor of the History of Medicine
Allan M. Brandt is the Dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences as of January 1, 2008. He is also the Amalie Moses Kass Professor of the History of Medicine at Harvard Medical School and holds a joint appointment in the Department of the History of Science. Brandt earned his undergraduate degree at Brandeis University and a Ph.D. in American History
from Columbia University in 1983. His work focuses on social and ethical aspects of health, disease, and medical practices in the twentieth-century United States. Brandt is the author of The Cigarette Century: The Rise, Fall, and Deadly Persistence of the Product That Defined America and No Magic Bullet: A Social History of Venereal Disease in the United States Since 1880. He has written
on the social history of epidemic disease; the history of public health; and the history of human subject research among other topics.
Contact
- Email: brandt@fas.harvard.edu
- Phone: (617) 496-1464
