School of Public Health

“With equal dose of empathy and examination, Sandro Galea challenges us to undertake a deep exercise of self-reflection: how our hard-won political beliefs may betray us in the hope for a greater good. Within Reason is critically relevant for each of us—and all of us.” – Julio Frenk, University of Miami

"Galea offers a revelatory new conception of public health and disease prevention in this trenchant study of systemic inequity." -Publishers Weekly

"In Pornography and Public Health, Emily Rothman brings clear and original insights to a field filled with tired debates. Deeply informed and highly accessible, this book will be a breath of fresh air to scholars and interested readers of public health, gender, and pornography." -Shamus R. Khan, Princeton University

"Cogently and often movingly, epidemiologist Sandro Galea argues that an obsession with drugs, doctors and insurance obscures the fact that the roots of sickness and health are life circumstances: money, status, education, environment and a range of other socio-economic issues. With the richest 1% living for up to 15 years longer than the poorest 1%, investment in public goods such as education, universal health coverage and environmental regulation is ever more urgent." -Nature

"This guide will be of tremendous use to the hundreds (thousands?) of faculty members teaching in public health programs across the continuum of education around the world. Teaching Public Health will make an enormous contribution to our field; I hope it becomes required reading for all doctoral students preparing to enter the academy." – Donna J. Petersen, College of Public Health, University of South Florida

“A major milestone in this emergent discipline. It should be required introductory reading for students in public health, health policy, health economics, behavioral sciences, and related fields. This not a repackaging of traditional public health methodologies. Rather, it is an emergent discussion of nine unifying theoretical principles of population health science, complete with excellent case studies, that will extend and inform the practice of both public health and preventative medicine.” ― Julie Louise Gerberding, MD, MPH, Chief Patient Officer and Executive Vice President of Strategic Communications, Global Public Policy, and Population Health, Merck & Co., Inc.; former Director, US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

“Beginning tomorrow, your health, privacy, and peace of mind could be imperiled if you fail to heed the compelling content and insightful advice of George Annas and Sherman Elias in Genomic Messages.” ― Jerome P. Kassirer, MD, Distinguished Professor, Tufts University School of Medicine; Editor-in-Chief Emeritus, The New England Journal of Medicine

“This book addresses the inadequacy of care of cancer patients among the LGBT community and discusses the challenges that need to be addressed...The audience includes practitioners addressing needs of this community, including common concerns and treating and screening suggestions. The book is also aimed at policy makers and advocates.” ― Jessica C. Baxter, Doody’s Book Reviews

“Two strengths of this text are the numerous examples that are included throughout and the inclusion of open-ended problems at the end of chapters to help readers work through some of the concepts on their own. Another strength of this text is its attempt to cover as many adaptive designs as possible…This text is certainly a useful reference that covers approaches to adaptive clinical trial design, but would only be suitable for those with sufficient graduate-level statistical training and background in clinical trial design and programming.” ― Thomas M. Braun, Department of Biostatistics, University of Michigan, writing in International Statistical Review

“Two strengths of this text are the numerous examples that are included throughout and the inclusion of open-ended problems at the end of chapters to help readers work through some of the concepts on their own. Another strength of this text is its attempt to cover as many adaptive designs as possible…This text is certainly a useful reference that covers approaches to adaptive clinical trial design, but would only be suitable for those with sufficient graduate-level statistical training and background in clinical trial design and programming.” ― Thomas M. Braun, Department of Biostatistics, University of Michigan, writing in International Statistical Review

“This book is designed not only for a conceptual understanding of scientific fundamental principles behind the methods, but also to introduce some innovative applications from different fields. The book fits for a wide range of audiences who do not have any mathematics or statistics backgrounds. As written by an experienced statistician from pharmaceutical industry, the book provides an insightful overview of the current practices of experimentation and statistical inferences in pharmaceutical drug development, and also the concepts and rationales of the innovative methods beyond the pharmaceutical research and development. This is a useful reference book to inspire the readers of creative thinking by the great ideas behind the scientific methods.” ― Journal of Biopharmaceutical Statistics, 2015

“The editors of this book successfully maintain a focus on those biomarkers used in the development of new drugs...Any statistician or scientist who seeks to wield pharmaceutical biomarkers on the quest for personalized medical certainty will find this book a timely and useful reference on a most important and fastest evolving subject.” ― Journal of Biopharmaceutical Statistics

“As a former school committee member, as an elected official, and as a parent, I feel that this book raises issues that everyone who cares about public education in the United States should carefully consider.” ― E. Denise Simmons, Vice Mayor, Cambridge, Mass.

“…an excellent book discussing the principles of scientific inference for readers with various backgrounds. Paradoxes are seen sporadically in different occasions; a systematic review in this book may reshape the reader’s brain, as the author warns, and, at the very least, provides a fresh view of scientific philosophy.” ― Gang Li, Journal of Biopharmaceutical Statistics

“This second edition remains a useful reference source for anyone interested in advancing innovative trial designs and wishing to incorporate adaptations, modifications, and changes to the drug development process. Five new chapters have been added and are all worth reading; bringing the technical material covered up-to-date. For anyone working in, and studying, clinical research the book is worth purchasing and will make a valuable addition to any library...this revision continues to provide a balanced summary of statistical methods, together with the authors’ perspective on current regulatory practice.” ― International Statistical Review

“For me, part of the brilliance of So Far Away is that, wrapped up in the exquisitely well-described uniqueness of Hartmann’s story about her parents and herself, are substantial insights about anticipatory grief, grief following a parent’s death or decline, parent-child relationships at the end of life and after parents die, the links of personal grief to marital relationships, what can be accomplished by writing about parents and parent death, depression, and much more. And although the book is only about one family from one family member’s perspective, it offers fascinating insights about families in many areas, including lies and secrets in families, family communication, and what might be called ‘relationship traps.’ Another part of the brilliance of the book is that the author tunes in so well on her own thoughts and feelings, that it becomes a stimulating book about the psychology of fear, guilt, anger, love, duty, neediness, independence, memory, and obliviousness.” ― Paul C. Rosenblatt, University of Minnesota

“This is a first class book. It discusses a wide range of deep issues in statistics, and although focused on topics arising in biostatistics, pharmaceuticals, and clinical trials it would make stimulating and thought-provoking reading for any statistician...There are exercises at the end of each chapter, and I am certainly tempted to use the book as the basis for a short course for beginning postgraduate students...since it would open their eyes to some challenging and indeed fascinating aspects of modern statistics.” — David J. Hand, International Statistical Review, Vol. 80 (1), 2012

“Overall, the book does not only cover a very broad range of different topics but manages to explain these coherently…this book is not only of interest for scientists in the pharmaceutical industry but also for academia due to its thorough presentation.” — Frank Emmert-Streib, Statistical Methods in Medical Research, 21(6), 2012

“In short, Worst Case Bioethics offers a valuable consideration of how public health policy is sometimes shaped by fear in a counterproductive manner. The book is well written, well reasoned, and persuasive. I recommend it highly to all who are interested in bioethics, public health policy, or national security policy." — Science "Annas persuasively argues in Worst Case Bioethics that basing policy on extreme nightmare possibilities leads to a distortion of fundamental ethical principles and legal protections." — Lancet "Most readers interested in these topics will find this a creative and insightful rubric for examining different aspects of US healthcare and law.” — Dr. R MacDougall, Saint Louis University

“In each elegant interpretation, the author traces the ripple effects of a story that thrilled or provoked her, a story that became a catalyst for a lifelong passion, and a story that became a virtual home, to return to for clarification. Rich and mind-opening testimony to the profound, even chthonic power of tales well told.” —Booklist