Abe Lilienfeld Scholarship Fund

Abraham Lilienfeld, MD, MPH, is known as the “father of contemporary chronic disease epidemiology.” He was a major contributor to the 1964 Smoking and Health report issued by the 9th US Surgeon General, Dr. Luther Terry, establishing that tobacco smoking was a serious threat to health. Dr. Lilienfeld was internationally recognized as an expert in cancer research and as a pioneer in developing epidemiological methods for the study of chronic diseases. He received his MPH degree in 1949 from the Johns Hopkins School of Hygiene and Public Health, and joined the faculty of the School as a lecturer in 1950. The scholarship supports exceptional doctoral or masters students concentrating in the discipline of epidemiology.