# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/joseph-goldberger
# Generated: 2026-08-14T07:57:39.153Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/joseph-goldberger"
name: "Joseph Goldberger"
slug: "joseph-goldberger"
description: "Joseph Goldberger was an American physician and epidemiologist in the United States Public Health Service (PHS). As a public health official, he was an advocate for scientific and social recognition of the links between poverty and disease. His early work with arriving immigrants at Ellis Island made him a standout investigator for detecting infectious diseases and he became a well-known epidemiologist."
tagline: "Slovak-American epidemiologist (1874-1929)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Joseph_Goldberger_01.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
category:
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  slug: "doctors"
profileType:
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  slug: "doctor"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1874-07-16"
deathDate: "1929-01-17"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             4.67843631778058
  historical:           10.97523733333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump