{"id":1128,"date":"2014-08-21T12:50:24","date_gmt":"2014-08-21T19:50:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=1128"},"modified":"2017-11-09T10:03:08","modified_gmt":"2017-11-09T17:03:08","slug":"coombs-david-w-1939","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=1128","title":{"rendered":"COOMBS, DAVID W., 1939-"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Biography:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Sociologist; University professor. Born&#8211; March 19, 1939, Indianapolis, Ind. Parents&#8211; David S. and Jeanette (Walsh) Coombs. Married&#8211; Joan, May 12, 1973. Children&#8211; Two. Education&#8211; University of Notre Dame, B.A., 1961; University of Florida, M.A., 1968, Ph.D., 1971; Master of Public Health, UAB. \u00a0Served in the Peace Corps, 1961-1963; taught at the Universidad del Valle in Cali, Columbia, 1966-1967, at Spring Hill College 1969-1970, at the University of Alabama, 1970-1983, and at the University of Alabama in Birmingham after 1983. Published articles\u00a0in many professional journals. \u00a0Awarded a Rockefeller Foundation fellowship, a State of Florida scholarship, and several research grants. Co-founder of a pioneering employee assistance program for business and industry in Guatemala. Founding member of the Alabama Suicide Prevention and Resource Center. Awarded emeritus status on his retirement at UAB.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>David W. Coombs, Birmingham.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Joint_Publication(s):<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Map Abstract of Mortality Factors Affecting the Elderly. Tuscaloosa, Ala.; University of Alabama Press, 1979.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Contributor:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Problems of Mental Retardation, Cerebral Palsy, and Epilepsy in Alabama; a Sociological Analysis. Tuscaloosa, Ala.; University of Alabama Press, 1978.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Biography: Sociologist; University professor. Born&#8211; March 19, 1939, Indianapolis, Ind. Parents&#8211; David S. and Jeanette (Walsh) Coombs. Married&#8211; Joan, May 12, 1973. Children&#8211; Two. Education&#8211; University of Notre Dame, B.A., 1961; University of Florida, M.A., 1968, Ph.D., 1971; Master of Public Health, UAB. \u00a0Served in the Peace Corps, 1961-1963; taught at the Universidad del Valle [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1128","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-a-c","category-authors"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1128","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1128"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1128\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7059,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1128\/revisions\/7059"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1128"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1128"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1128"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}