Wailoo named 2021 Dan David Prize winner
B. Rose Huber, Princeton School of Public and International Affairs
Feb. 15, 2021 11 a.m.
Keith Wailoo
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Historian and scholar Keith Wailoo joins Dr. Anthony Fauci and others as a recipient of the 2021 Dan David Prize, an award endowed by the Dan David Foundation and headquartered at Tel Aviv University.
Wailoo, the Henry Putnam University Professor of History and Public Affairs at Princeton, is being honored for his work in the history of health and medicine. He will share a $1 million prize with Alison Bashford of the University of South Wales and Katharine Park of Harvard University.
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