Bruce Link
Affiliations
- Faculty Fellow, Department of Epidemiology, Mailman School of Public Health
Department of Sociomedical Sciences, Mailman School of Public Health - Co-Director, Robert Wood Johnson Health & Society Scholars Program
Research
Bruce Link, Co-Director of the Health & Society Scholars Program, is Professor in Epidemiology and directs the Psychiatric Epidemiology Training Program at Columbia. Link, a sociologist, has written extensively about social and psychiatric epidemiology, socioeconomic status and health, stigma, and homelessness. With Jo Phelan, he has advanced the theory of social conditions as fundamental causes of disease. Link is the PI of the Columbia Center for Youth Violence Prevention and is currently conducting research on stigma and genetic causes of disease, as well as on the "fundamental causes" approach to understanding health disparities.
Selected Work
- "On Stigma and Its Consequences" Link, Bruce and Jo Phelan. Annual Review of Sociology 2001, 27:363-85
- "Real in Their Consequences: A Sociological Approach to Understanding the Association Between Psychotic Symptoms and Violence" Link, Bruce, John Monahan, Ann Stueve, and Francis Cullen. American Sociological Review 1999, 64:316-331
- "Public Conceptions of Mental Illness: Labels, Causes, Dangerousness and Social Distance" Link, Bruce, Jo Phelan, Michaeline Bresnahan, Ann Stueve, and Bernice Pescosolido. American Journal of Public Health 1999, 89:1328-1333
- "The Public's View of Competence, Dangerousness and Need for Legal Coercion of Person's with Mental Health Problems" Pescosolido, Bernice, John Monahan, Bruce Link, Ann Stueve, Saeko Kiuzawa. American Journal of Public Health 1999, 89:1339-1347
See Also
- Research grants undertaken by Bruce Link
- Announcement: Bruce Link: Presidential Teaching Award
