PROFESSOR EMERITUS MARK G. FIELD HONORED
Harvard University recently announced the establishment of the Mark G. Field Honorary Fund, in recognition of the breadth and excellence of Prof. Field’s work at Harvard in the sociology of medicine. An anonymous $1 million gift will benefit especially continued scholarship in Public Health. Prof. Field served for many years on the faculty of BU’s Sociology Department, maintaining, as well, an affiliation with Harvard’s Davis Center. He is renowned for his scholarship on health care in the Soviet Union and its post-Communist transition.