David Vlahov, PhD, RN, is Senior Vice President for Research and Director of the Center for Urban Epidemiologic Studies at The New York Academy of Medicine. He is also Professor of Clinical Epidemiology at the Mailman School of Public Health at Columbia University, and Adjunct Professor in Epidemiology at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.
Dr. Vlahov has conducted studies of urban populations in Baltimore for over 20 years including several longitudinal cohort studies for which he received the NIH MERIT Award. He brings expertise in epidemiology, infectious diseases, substance abuse and mental health and he has served on the National Advisory Council on Drug Abuse.
More recently, Dr. Vlahov led epidemiologic studies in Harlem and the Bronx, which have served as a platform for subsequent individual- and community-level intervention studies and community based participatory research (involving partnerships with residents, community based organizations, academic and public health departments) to address social determinants of health. This work has contributed information on racial/ethnic disparities in health and approaches to address such disparities.
Dr. Vlahov led population based studies after September 11, 2001 on mental health and substance abuse in New York City residents following the attacks on the World Trade Center. Uniting these interests, Dr. Vlahov initiated the International Society for Urban Health (The website is www.isuh.org), serving as its first President. The Society brings together an interdisciplinary and international group of scientists to examine the health effects of urbanicity (in developed countries) and urbanization (in both developed and developing countries). He is a Visiting Professor at the Medical School in Belo Horizonte, Brazil to develop their programs in urban health, and is working with the World Health Organization’s Urban Health Center in Kobe, Japan.
Dr. Vlahov is the editor-in-chief of the Journal of Urban Health, and serves as an editor for the American Journal of Epidemiology and Epidemiology. He has edited two books on urban health; he has published over 530 scholarly papers.
Dr. Vlahov received a baccalaureate and masters in Nursing from the University of Maryland and his doctorate in Epidemiology at the Johns Hopkins School of Hygiene and Public Health.
Contact information: (212) 822-7382 dvlahov@nyam.org
Click here for a list of Dr. Vlahov's available publications in PubMed.
