Robert A. Hahn

{{short description|American epidemiologist}} {{Infobox scientist | honorific_prefix = | name = Robert Alfred Hahn | honorific_suffix = | native_name = | native_name_lang = | image =  | image_size = | alt = | caption = | birth_date = {{birth year and age|1945}} | birth_place = | death_date =  | death_place = | death_cause = | resting_place = | resting_place_coordinates =  | other_names = | residence = | citizenship = | nationality = | fields = Anthropology, epidemiology | workplaces = Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's Guide to Community Preventive Services | patrons = | education = | alma_mater =Cornell University, Harvard University, University of Washington | thesis_title = Rikbakca categories of social relations: an epistemological analysis | thesis_url = https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/76986411 | thesis_year = 1976 | doctoral_advisor =  | academic_advisors = | doctoral_students = | notable_students = | known_for = | influences = | influenced = | awards = 2013 Lifetime Contribution Award for Outstanding Dedication to Excellence in Behavioral and Social Science from the CDC, 2012 Career Achievement Award from the Society for Medical Anthropology | author_abbrev_bot = | author_abbrev_zoo = | spouse =  | partner =  | children = | signature =  | signature_alt = | website =  | footnotes = }} '''Robert A. Hahn''' (born 1945)<ref>{{cite web | url=http://viaf.org/viaf/12331003/#Hahn,_Robert_A.,_1945- | title=Robert A. Hahn | work=Virtual International Authority File | accessdate=17 January 2016}}</ref> is an American medical anthropologist and epidemiologist. {{As of|2015|post=,}} he was a coordinating scientist of systematic reviews for the Guide to Community Preventive Services at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).

==Education== The son of German refugee parents, Hahn received his B.A. from Cornell University in 1966, his PhD in anthropology from Harvard University in 1976, and his MPH in epidemiology from the University of Washington in 1986.<ref name="cdc">{{cite web | url=https://www.cdc.gov/minorityhealth/newsletter/2015/Winter.html | title=Health Equity Champion | publisher=CDC | work=Health Equity Matters | date=Winter 2015 | accessdate=17 January 2016 | author=Liburd, Leandris | archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20160305153543/http://www.cdc.gov/minorityhealth/newsletter/2015/winter.html | archivedate=5 March 2016}}</ref> ==Career== Hahn began his career working at the CDC in 1986 and has remained there ever since.<ref name=cdc/> While there, he helped found the Behavioral and Social Science Working Group.<ref name="cv">{{cite web | url=http://new.aaanet.org/profdev/upload/Hahn-CV-2013.pdf | title=Robert Hahn CV | accessdate=17 January 2016 }}{{dead link|date=April 2018 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref> From 1998 to 1999, he worked as a fellow in the United States House Committee on Veterans' Affairs and in the office of Congresswoman Louise Slaughter.<ref name=guide>{{cite web | url=http://www.thecommunityguide.org/about/cdc-staff.html#rhahn | title=The Community Guide Staff | work=GCPS website | accessdate=17 January 2016}}</ref> As of 2015, he was also a member of the Senior Biomedical Research Service.<ref name=cdc/>

==Research== As a coordinating scientist of systematic reviews in the CDC's Guide to Community Preventive Services, Hahn has published reviews on subjects such as excessive alcohol consumption and violence prevention, as well as interventions to promote health equity.<ref name=cdc/><ref name=guide/> He has also done research on the nocebo effect, and has said that one reason the medical community has been hesitant to research it because belief is not very highly valued in the modern medical community, which tends to focus more on anatomy.<ref>{{cite news | url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/lifestyle/wellness/2002/04/30/the-nocebo-effect-placebos-evil-twin/6945da76-fb8e-401e-a4f2-0439d36f4c6a/ | title=The Nocebo Effect: Placebo's Evil Twin | newspaper=Washington Post | date=30 April 2002 | accessdate=17 January 2016 | author=Reid, Brian}}</ref><ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.nytimes.com/1996/01/07/magazine/method-madness-the-spin-doctors.html | title=The Spin Doctors | work=New York Times | date=7 January 1996 | accessdate=17 January 2016 | author=Wade, Nicholas}}</ref>

==Honors and awards== Hahn received the Career Achievement Award by the Society for Medical Anthropology in 2012.<ref name=cdc/> He also received the Lifetime Contribution Award from the CDC's Behavioral and Social Science Working Group in 2013 for his work in founding the group.<ref name=cv/>

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Category:21st-century American anthropologists Category:Living people Category:1945 births Category:American epidemiologists Category:Centers for Disease Control and Prevention people Category:Medical anthropologists Category:Cornell University alumni Category:Harvard Graduate School of Arts and Sciences alumni Category:University of Washington School of Public Health alumni