SPH Professor’s Work Named Time Magazine’s #1 Medical Breakthrough of 2007

Research conducted by UIC School of Public Health professor of epidemiology Robert Bailey is referenced in Time magazine as the #1 medical breakthrough of 2007. Bailey’s research, published earlier this year in the Lancet, found that medical circumcision of men reduces their risk of acquiring HIV during heterosexual intercourse.

Time’s Top 10 Medical Breakthroughs can be read at: http://www.time.com/time/specials/2007/top10/article/0,30583,1686204
_1686252_1690372,00.html. Read more about Bailey and his work.