Bruce Link
Bruce Link | |
|---|---|
| Born | Bruce George Link September 3, 1949 |
| Education | Earlham College Columbia University |
| Known for | Health disparities Psychiatric epidemiology Social stigma Theory of fundamental causes |
| Awards | Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Investigator Award in Health Policy Research (1995) |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Epidemiology Sociology |
| Institutions | Columbia University University of California, Riverside |
| Thesis | Mental patient status and social disability: an examination of the effects of a psychiatric label (1980) |
| Doctoral advisor | Bruce Dohrenwend |
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 University of California, Riverside. He is also a professor emeritus of Epidemiology and Sociomedical Sciences in the Mailman School of Public Health at Columbia University, 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 Jo Phelan.