Public Health

Prof. Yariv Gerber

Cardiovascular disease epidemiology

Prof. Gerber studies risk factors for and time trends in various vascular diseases across different populations and settings, with the goal of improving public health and training future leaders in epidemiologic research. Much of his work has centered on factors affecting prognosis and well-being of patients suffering an acute myocardial infarction (“heart attack” or MI). His team investigated a large cohort of Israeli patients aged ≤65, longitudinally, hospitalized for a first MI.

Prof. Gerber, PhD, School of Public Health, completed his direct track Ph.D. at Tel Aviv University. He then continued his training in the Division of Cardiovascular Diseases, Mayo Clinic College of Medicine, Rochester, Minnesota, in cardiovascular disease epidemiology. He is head of the School of Public Health, Director of the Stanley Steyer Institute for Cancer Epidemiology and Research and holds the Lilian & Marcel Pollak Chair in Biological Anthropology. He is an Adjunct Professor of Epidemiology at Mayo Clinic College of Medicine.

They assessed the clinical course, risk factor control and adjustments among these patients over decades of follow-up. They have looked at individual and area-based risk factors while applying advanced epidemiologic methods and statistical modeling. The ultimate goal of Prof. Gerber’s work is to reduce the massive burden of vascular disease the scientific basis for appropriate public health interventions.