David Bradley Allison | |
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Born | 1963 |
Alma mater | Vassar College, Hofstra University |
Awards | Lilly Scientific Achievement Award from the Obesity Society (2002), Presidential Award for Excellence in Science, Mathematics and Engineering Mentoring,[1] Mark Bieber Award from the American College of Nutrition in 2016.[2] |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Biostatistics |
Institutions | Indiana University-Bloomington |
Thesis | Toward an empirically derived typology of obese persons (1990) |
David Bradley Allison (born 1963) is an American obesity researcher, biostatistician, and psychologist. He is the dean of the Indiana University School of Public Health-Bloomington[3] and, in 2007, was one of the top 10 scientists in the world awarded the most NIH grants.[4] Allison was previously Distinguished Professor, Quetelet Endowed Professor, and Director of the NIH-funded Nutrition Obesity Research Center at the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB).