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Professor
Harvey Fineberg
Prof Fineberg
is President of the Institute of Medicine (IOM) of the National
Academy of Sciences in the US. He served as Provost of Harvard University
from 1997 to 2001, and was Dean of the Harvard School of Public
Health for thirteen years.
As president
of IOM, Prof Fineberg advises the government on issues such as vaccine
safety, health care delivery and quality, nutrition standards, and
cancer prevention and management. He also serves on the governing
board that oversees the National Research Council, which is the
operating arm of the National Academies. He has devoted most of
his academic career to the fields of health policy and medical decision-making.
His wide-ranging research interests encompass HIV/AIDS and other
infectious diseases, the fields of risk management and decision-making,
the evaluation of diagnostic tests and vaccines, the ethical and
social implications of new medical technologies, and medical education.
Prof Fineberg
has served on an array of government panels as well as the boards
of numerous health and education organizations. He helped found
and served as president of the Society for Medical Decision Making
and also served as consultant to the World Health Organization.
He also served as a member of the Public Health Council of Massachusetts
from 1976 to 1979, as chairman of the Health Care Technology Study
Section of the National Center for Health Services Research from
1982 to 1985, and as president of the Association of Schools of
Public Health from 1995 to 1996.
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