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Tamara Eugenia Awerbuch-Friedlander, PhD, is a biomathematician and public health scientist at Harvard School of Public Health in Boston, Massachusetts. Her primary research and publications focus on biosocial interactions that cause or contribute to disease. She also is believed to be the first female Harvard Faculty member to file a lawsuit against Harvard University for sex discrimination.〔(Harvard Catalyst Profile for Tamara Eugenia Awerbuch-Friedlander, PhD )〕〔(AAUP 'Issues' page on Women in the Academic Profession ), accessed 05/02/2013.〕〔The American Association of University Women, Tenure Denied: Cases of Sex Discrimination in Academia. 2004.〕 Currently, she is an instructor in the (Department of Global Health and Population ) of the Harvard School of Public Health. Since the beginning of this century, she has organized and carried out research on conditions that lead to the emergence, maintenance, and spread of epidemics. Her research encompasses sexually-transmitted diseases (STDs) such as HIV/AIDS, as well as vector-borne diseases, such as malaria and Lyme disease. Dr. Awerbuch-Friedlander recently researched the spread and control of rabies based on an eco-historical analysis. Her work is interdisciplinary, and her publications are co-authored with members of different departments of the HSPH. Conditions contributing to the emergence of epidemics are complex in nature, involving biological, ecological, behavioral, environmental, and socioeconomic factors. Most of her research mathematically models these factors as systems that lend themselves to qualitative and quantitative analysis. These models can be used to explore the effect of each factor in the presence of the others as well as new interventions. Many of these models are based on data collected in the field, whether they concern zoonotic diseases such as the population dynamics of the tick that transmits Lyme disease in the Northeastern part of the United States, or sexually transmitted diseases, such as the relative probabilities of HIV1 and HIV2 infection in a cohort of prostitutes in Senegal. Some of her analytical mathematical models led to fundamental epidemiological discoveries, for example, that oscillations are an intrinsic property of tick dynamics. This means that a decrease in tick abundance in one year does not necessary imply that the same will happen in the next. She presented her work in many international conferences and at the Isaac Newton Institute of Mathematical Sciences in Cambridge, England, where she was invited to participate in the Program on Models of Epidemics. ==Early life== Tamara Awerbuch was born in Uruguay, lived until the age of 12 in Buenos Aires, Argentina, then moved to Israel with her parents, where her grandparents and parents had lived after they had escaped Nazi Germany just before the Holocaust began. She studied and completed three degrees at Hebrew University in Jerusalem. She studied chemistry and minored in biochemistry and completed the BSc in Chemistry in 1965. In 1967, she completed both the Master of Science (MSc) in Physiology and the Master of Education (MEd) degree from Hebrew University. She is certified to teach all grades, K–12, in Israel. She also served in the Israeli army. In October 1973, while visiting friends in America, she was offered employment at MIT in Cambridge, Massachusetts, to study detoxified carcinogens in tissue cultures, then a recently developed technique. In Spring 1974, she began to study mathematics and statistics there because, as an MIT employee, she could take one course free each semester, which she continued doing for three semesters. During this period, she worked in the lab studying carcinogenicity in tissue cultures, studied one course each semester, and lived very frugally, sharing a house with MIT junior Faculty and graduate students. Then, in Summer 1975, she matriculated as a full-time MIT student, where she completed her doctorate in Nutrition and Food Science in 1979. She became a US citizen and has resided in the United States since that time. She enjoys her interesting life as an international research academic and travels often to South America and Israel. 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「Tamara Awerbuch-Friedlander」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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