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International Journal of Epidemiology 2002;31:34-37
© International Epidemiological Association 2002

Celebration

Zena Stein, Mervyn Susser and epidemiology: observation, causation and action

George Davey Smitha and Ezra Susserb

a University of Bristol, Department of Social Medicine, Bristol, UK.
b Columbia University, Department of Epidemiology, New York, USA.

In this issue of the International Journal of Epidemiology we highlight the contributions of two pioneering self-taught epidemiologists, Zena Stein and Mervyn Susser. Their joint paper ‘Civilization and Peptic Ulcer‘, originally published in the Lancet in 1962, appears as one of our series of reprints of important epidemiological papers, along with several commentaries. These include a reflection, 40 years on, by the original authors. A companion series of papers originated in an international symposium held by the Mailman School of Public Health of Columbia University, New York, to mark the 80th years of both Zena and Mervyn. The event ended in a manner perhaps unusual for such an occasion: it was closed by Ahmed Kathrada, a friend of Zena and Mervyn, who was incarcerated with Nelson Mandela on Robben Island during the struggle against apartheid in South Africa. He read out a letter from Nelson Mandela to mark the occasion . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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