Life

He graduated from Brandeis University

Brandeis University

Brandeis University is an American private research university with a liberal arts focus. It is located in the southwestern corner of Waltham, Massachusetts, nine miles west of Boston. The University has an enrollment of approximately 3,200 undergraduate and 2,100 graduate students. In 2011, it...

 and from Columbia University

Columbia University

Columbia University in the City of New York is a private, Ivy League university in Manhattan, New York City. Columbia is the oldest institution of higher learning in the state of New York, the fifth oldest in the United States, and one of the country's nine Colonial Colleges founded before the...

 with a Ph.D. in 1983.
He teaches at Harvard University

Harvard University

Harvard University is a private Ivy League university located in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States, established in 1636 by the Massachusetts legislature. Harvard is the oldest institution of higher learning in the United States and the first corporation chartered in the country...

, where he is the Amalie Moses Kass Professor of the History of Medicine at Harvard Medical School, and Dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences.

He was co-author of a 1985 article about AIDS

AIDS

Acquired immune deficiency syndrome or acquired immunodeficiency syndrome is a disease of the human immune system caused by the human immunodeficiency virus...

 in Harper's.

Brandt is a fellow of the Hastings Center

Hastings Center

The Hastings Center, founded in 1969, is an independent, non-partisan, non-profit bioethics research institute based in the United States. It is dedicated to the examination of essential questions in health care, biotechnology, and the environment...

, a bioethics research center.

Awards

• 2011 The William H. Welch Medal of the American Association for the History of Medicine
• 2008 Bancroft Prize
  Bancroft Prize
  The Bancroft Prize is awarded each year by the trustees of Columbia University for books about diplomacy or the history of the Americas. It was established in 1948 by a bequest from Frederic Bancroft...
  
  

External links

• "An interview with Allan M. Brandt", American Scientist, Greg Ross
• "Cody's Books: The Cigarette Century", FORA.tv
• http://www.thecrimson.com/article/2009/5/21/our-plans-for-the-future-on/"Our Plans for the Future", Harvard Crimson, Allan M. Brandt, Evelynn M. Hammonds
  Evelynn M. Hammonds
  Evelynn M. Hammonds is an American academic, Paige M. Gutenborg Professor of History of Science and African American Studies at Harvard University and recently appointed Dean of Harvard College. She is also a Black Feminist author, whose writing intersects the concepts of race with the academic...
  
  , and Michael D. Smith, May 21, 2009]
• "Book Review: No Magic Bullet", Journal of Medicine and Philosophy 1985 10(4):397-398