Anita Kaplan Bahn (1919/1920 – July 19, 1980) was an American epidemiologist, biostatistician, and cancer researcher.
Her dissertation, supervised by Jerome Cornfield, was A Methodological Study of the Outpatient Psychiatric Clinic Population of Maryland, 1948-59.
She was also affiliated with the Fox Chase Cancer Center and held an adjunct position at Temple University.
[2] In 1980, she was recruited to head a new epidemiology program in the Graduate School of Public Health at San Diego State University,[4] but she died at age 60 of a cerebral hemorrhage at the University of Pennsylvania hospital before she could take up her new position.
[2] Her husband, Ralph Bahn, with whom she had two children, died in the early 1970s;[1] she married again, in 1980, the year of her death, to nuclear physicist and science fiction fan Milton A.