In Remembrance Of Mervyn Susser
By Alfredo Morabia
[Ed. We invited Columbia University’s Alfredo Morabia,
a university colleague of Mervyn Susser and an epidemiologist with a
historical perspective on the field of epidemiologist to sum up in
brief Dr Susser’s place in epidemiology. He composed the following
statement which captures the magnitude of the loss.]
Many scholarly things can be and will be said about
Mervyn’s contribution to epidemiology and his distinct voice over
the last 50 years, but my immediate concern is that we have lost a
very precious and increasingly rarer personality, an epidemiologist
for whom the future of human societies remained wide open, as if he
were able to contemplate and believe in some form of utopic place
that was fairer and healthier than our current one. ■
|
Mervyn Susser 1921-2014
|
|