Dr. Victor Sidel

Dr. Victor Sidel is Distinguished University Professor of Social Medicine at Montefiore Medical Center and Albert Einstein College of Medicine in the Bronx, New York. He is a graduate of Princeton University with honors in physics and of Harvard Medical School with honors in biophysics. After training in internal medicine and in biophysics at Harvard Medical School and at the National Heart Institute in Bethesda, he served on the faculty of Harvard University Dr. Sidel is a pioneer in the field of community medicine and a long-time leader in international public health. He was studied and written on health care in a dozen countries, with particular emphasis on China, and has been a consultant for the World Health Organization (WHO) and the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF). Dr. Sidel was one of the founders of Physicians for Social Responsibility in 1961 and currently serves as co-president of the International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War, the organization that was awarded the 1985 Nobel Peace Prize. He has published extensively on the economic, social, environmental and health consequences of the arms race and on the risks posed by the proliferation of nuclear, chemical and biological weapons. He is also co-editor of War and Public Health, published by Oxford University Press in 1997.