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American Journal of Epidemiology Advance Access published online on November 3, 2009
American Journal of Epidemiology, doi:10.1093/aje/kwp346
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American Journal of Epidemiology Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health 2009.
This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/2.5/uk/), which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

Harold A. Kahn (1920–2009): A Remembrance of a Life Devoted to Public Health

Christopher T. Sempos* and Uri Goldbourt

* Correspondence to Dr. Christopher T. Sempos, Office of Dietary Supplements, National Institutes of Health, 6100 Executive Blvd., Room 3B01, Bethesda, MD 20892-7517 (e-mail: semposch@mail.nih.gov).

Received for publication September 25, 2009. Accepted for publication September 29, 2009.

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Harold Aaron Kahn was one of those many unsung heroes of the post-World War II movement in epidemiology and public health around the world. He played key roles in many of the early epidemiologic cohort studies important to resolution of the diet-heart hypothesis, produced a key monograph on the risks of smoking and health (1), and founded the Framingham Eye Study. However, most of all, he was an outstanding teacher, whether it was in the classroom, one-on-one, or as the author of one of the groundbreaking textbooks in statistical methods in epidemiology.

Harold Kahn, or Hal as he was known to friends and colleagues, was born on January 4, 1920, in New York City. He graduated from high school at the age of 15 and then was admitted to the prestigious College of the City . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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