Sandro Galea: podcast appearances and interviews

Sandro Galea is a physician, epidemiologist, and author with notable leadership roles in public health academia. He is the Margaret C. Ryan Dean at the Boston University School of Public Health and has previously served as dean of the school. Additionally, he held the position of chair and Gelman Professor in the Department of Epidemiology at Columbia University. Galea is an elected member of the National Academy of Medicine and has received several awards for his research, including the Michael J McGinnis Award, the Wade Hampton Frost and Rema Lapouse Awards, and the Robert S Laufer Award. His research work primarily focuses on social and psychiatric epidemiology, emphasizing the social causes of health, mental health, and trauma. His peer-reviewed publications appear in prominent journals such as JAMA, the New England Journal of Medicine, and The Lancet. As an author and editor, Galea has written books including Well: What We Need to Talk About When We Talk About Health, The Contagion Next Time, and Healthier: Fifty Thoughts on the Foundations of Population Health. In 2025, he became the editor of JAMA Health Forum, a journal dedicated to health policy issues.