Sociology 2016 Newslette

SOCIOLOGY NEWSLETTER | Issue #1 5 Bradford Gray Inducted into A&S Hall of Fame On September 11, 2015, 25 alumni were honored at the OSU College of Arts & Sciences 2015 Distinguished Alumni awards dinner. For the first time, an alum from each of the col- lege’s 24 departments was honored as a 2015 A&S Distinguished Alumni. Three of those alumni were also in- ducted into the college’s Hall of Fame, including sociology alum Bradford Gray. Bradford H. Gray, Ph.D., graduated from OSU with a bachelor's degree in business (1964) and a Master's degree in sociology (1966). He moved to Washington D.C. as a member of the inaugural class of U.S. Office of Educa- tion Fellows, before receiving his doc- torate in sociology from Yale Universi- ty in 1973. He is a Senior Fellow at the Urban In- stitute in Washington D.C., editor emeritus of leading health journal The Milbank Quarterly , and a senior adviser to the Harkness Fellowship Program at the Commonwealth Fund in New York. Previously he has served as founding director of the Division of Health and Science Policy at the New York Acade- my of Medicine and as director of the Institute for Social and Policy Studies at Yale University, where he was also a professor in the Department of Epide- miology and Public Health. With more than 100 publications, in- cluding two books: Human Subjects in Medical Experimentation and The Profit Motive and Patient Care: The Changing Accountability of Doctors and Hospi- tals , he has been an elected Fellow of both The Hastings Center (a leading bioethics think tank) and Academy Health (the professional association of health ser- vices researchers). He is also an elected member of the Institute of Medi- cine of the National Academy of Sciences. B r a d f o r d G r a y , M . S . S o c i o l o g y , ‘ 6 6