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Rosenberg Receives 2007 Halbert E. Dunn Award

OSU Sociology Alum Harry M. Rosenberg, Ph.D., (1972), received the 2007 Halbert E. Dunn Award from the National Association of Public Health Statistics and Information Systems. He was a graduate student member of the CHRR (Center for Human Resource Research) at OSU in the early 70s. This award is the highest recognition given by the Association for contributions to public health statistics. A Fellow of the American Statistical Association, Harry, retired, spent much of his career at the National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS) where he was Chief of the Mortality Statistics Branch, Division of Vital Statistics. NCHS is part of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Harry was also the first Head of the World Health Organization’s Mortality Reference Group, which is concerned with updating the International Classification of Diseases. At OSU, Harry focused on demography and methodology; his thesis was on the relationship between female labor force participation and fertility. He remembers his years at OSU as very intellectually stimulating, a wonderful environment. “We struggled through Abraham Kaplan’s, 'Toward a Theory of Inquiry,' one chapter at a time, debating the meaning of every sentence…rather like Talmudic scholars.” Harry is married to Dr. Barbara Filner; they reside in Bethesda, Maryland. He can be reached at HarryMRosenberg@aol.com.

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