Bruce George Link (born September 3, 1949) is an American epidemiologist and sociologist who is a Distinguished Professor of Sociology and Public Policy at the

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. He is also a professor emeritus of Epidemiology and Sociomedical Sciences in the

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, a research scientist at the New York State Psychiatric Institute, and the current president of the Interdisciplinary Association for Population Health Science (IAPHS). Bruce Link is probably best known for developing fundamental cause theory of social inequalities in health together with

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Early life and education

Born in

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, Link is the son of Eugene P. Link and his wife, Beulah Meyer Link. He graduated from

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in 1971 with a B.A. in sociology, and received his Ph.D. and M.S. from

in 1980 and 1982, respectively.

Career

Link first joined the faculty of Columbia University in 1981 as an assistant professor of

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. He was promoted to associate professor and full professor at Columbia in 1988 and 1998, respectively. He left the faculty of Columbia in 2015 to become a professor at the University of California, Riverside.

Honors and awards

In 1995, Link received an Investigator Award in Health Policy Research from the

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. In 2002, he was elected to the

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; he received the Leonard I. Pearlin Award for Distinguished Contributions to the Sociological Study of Mental Health from the

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the same year. In 2007, he received both the Leo G. Reeder Award from the American Sociological Association and the Rema Lapouse Award from the

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References

External links

Faculty page
at the University of California, Riverside
Faculty page
at Columbia University * {{DEFAULTSORT:Link, Bruce George 1949 births Living people American epidemiologists Columbia University faculty Columbia University alumni University of California, Riverside faculty American sociologists People from Denver Members of the National Academy of Medicine Earlham College alumni