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S. Leonard Syme

Syme is a professor emeritus of epidemiology and community health and director of the Research for Action Center at Berkeley. He holds a Ph.D in medical sociology from Yale and an M.A. and B.A. in anthropology and sociology from UCLA. His research interests include social determinants of disease, developing community interventions to prevent disease and promote health, and the relationship between health and psychosocial factors like poverty, stress, and social isolation.