Allan Morris Brandt, Ph.D.
Allan M. Brandt is the Amalie Moses Kass Professor of the History of Medicine at Harvard Medical School. He holds a joint appointment in the Department of the History of Science in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences at Harvard University. He has previously served as dean of the Harvard Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, chair of the Department of the History of Science, director of the MD/PhD program in the social sciences at Harvard Medical School, and director of the Division of Medical Ethics at Harvard Medical School.
Prof. Brandt is a graduate of Brandeis University. He received his MA, MPhil, and PhD degrees in American history from Columbia University.
Affiliations
- Department of the History of Science
- Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences
Professor Brandt's work focuses on social and ethical aspects of health, disease, and medical practices in the twentieth century United States. He is the author of The Cigarette Century (2007) and No Magic Bullet: A Social History of Venereal Disease in the United States since 1880 (1987); and the editor of Morality and Health (1997). He has written on the social history of epidemic disease; the history of public health and health policy; the history of human subject research; and the social and cultural history of smoking in the United States, among other topics. In 1998, he was elected to the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences, and in 2001 he was elected as a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He was named a Dr. William Cahan Distinguished Professor by the Flight Attendants Medical Research Institute in 2003. In September 2004, he testified as an expert witness for the U.S. Department of Justice in U.S. v Philip Morris et al.