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H. Jack Geiger, MD, MSciHyg,〔http://www.rwjf.org/reports/grr/033373.htm〕〔("Community-Oriented Primary Care: A Path to Community Development" )〕〔("Has Medicine Gone PC?" )〕〔("Podcast Transcript: Dr. Jack Geiger" )〕 (b. 1926)〔(''The Good Doctors: The Medical Committee for Human Rights and the Struggle for Social Justice in Health Care'', p. 63 )〕 is a founding member and past president of Physicians for Human Rights, a founding member and past president of Physicians for Social Responsibility, a founding member and past president of the Committee for Health in South Africa, and a founding member and national program coordinator of the Medical Committee for Human Rights.〔(Physicians for Human Rights )〕 Geiger has led or participated in human rights missions for PHR, the United Nations, and the American Association for the Advancement of Science to former Yugoslavia, Iraq and Kurdistan, the West Bank and Gaza Strip, and South Africa.〔("COMMUNITY HEALTH|ON COMMON GROUND" )〕〔http://www.cfah.org/activities/geiger.cfm〕 Most of his professional career has been focused on the related issues of health, poverty, and civil rights.〔http://www.publichealthheroes.org/heroes/2001/geiger.html〕〔http://www.facesofhopecampaign.org/video_geiger.html〕 Geiger initiated the community health center model in the United States, founding and directing the nation's inaugural community health centers, the first in Columbia Point, Boston (1965) and the second in the Mississippi Delta (1966). These centers became models for what is now a national network of more than 1100 CHCs serving some 20 million low-income and minority patients.〔http://blog.sph.unc.edu/monday_morning/2008/09/16/heroes-and-celebrations/〕〔http://www.sph.unc.edu/health_behavior_and_health_education_news/department_hosts_second_retrospective_9034_8289.html〕 Geiger is a member of the Institute of Medicine, United States National Academy of Sciences, and the recipient of the IOM's highest honor, the Lienhardt Award for "outstanding contributions to minority health."〔(Physicians for Human Rights )〕 In recognition of his work on racial and ethnic discrimination in health care, the Congressional Black, Hispanic and Asian American Caucuses have created the H. Jack Geiger Congressional Fellowships on Health Disparities for young minority scholars. Geiger is currently Professor Emeritus at the Sophie Davis School of Biomedical Education in New York City where he was a medical professor for many years. 〔http://www1.ccny.cuny.edu/prospective/med/faculty/hgeiger.cfm〕 ==Education== Geiger began his career as a science journalist, where he was active in efforts to use science primarily in the service of human needs.〔Lewenstein, Bruce V. (1987). 'Public Understanding of Science' in America, 1945-1965. Ph.D. dissertation, University of Pennsylvania, p. 234〕 Geiger received his M.D. degree from Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine in 1958.〔http://www.gwumc.edu/sphhs/departments/healthpolicy/ggprogram/geiger.cfm〕 〔http://www.case.edu/bulletin/09-11/medicine_general.htm〕 He then trained in internal medicine on the Harvard Service of Boston City Hospital from 1958-64. During this period he also earned a degree in epidemiology from the Harvard School of Public Health, and was a Research Fellow, Research Training Program in Social Science and Medicine, Harvard University. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「H. Jack Geiger」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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