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722 West 168th Street, Room 931
New York, NY 10032
Phone:212-305-1724
Fax: 212-342-1986
Email:[email protected]
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Education and Training
| PhD
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| Columbia University
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| MPH
| 1990
| Columbia University
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| BA
| 1987
| University of Texas
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Assistant Professor of Sociomedical Sciences, Mailman School of Public Health
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| Dr. Amy Fairchild’s work focuses on the intersection of history and public health policy, and has appeared in such publications as Science, The American Journal of Public Health, and The Bulletin of the History of Medicine. Her first book, Science at the Borders: Immigrant Medical Inspection the Shaping of the Modern Industrial Labor Force, 1881 to 1930, was published by Johns Hopkins in 2003. Prior to joining the Columbia faculty, Dr. Fairchild was at the New York State Department of Health, AIDS Institute. She is currently finishing a project on the history and ethics of surveillance and launching work on the history of harm reduction and confinement for Hansen’s disease, better known as leprosy.
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Selected Professional Affiliations |
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Chair, History Committee, Medical Care Section, American Public Health Association |
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| Selected Honors and Awards |
| ▪ RWJ Health Policy Investigator Award, 2002-2005 |
| ▪ Columbia University Presidential Award for Outstanding Teaching, 2003 |
| ▪ Visiting Scholar, Institute for the Medical Humanities, University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston, Summer 2003 |
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Selected New York City Activities |
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History of Harm Reduction
Through Dr. Fairchild’s work on this project, she is exploring the history of harm reduction for intravenous drug use, which initially centered on New York City, and other behaviors: alcohol, tobacco, sex, and fast food consumption.
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History and Ethics of Surveillance
Dr. Fairchild is exploring the history and ethics of public health surveillance, which was pioneered with tuberculosis and venereal diseases in New York City at the turn of the twentieth century, set against the backdrop of changing notions of privacy over the course of the twentieth century.
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Selected Global Activities
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| The Ethics of Surveillance
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Dr. Fairchild has worked with Ronald Bayer on the ethics of second generation of surveillance for HIV on behalf of WHO. There is a working document available for review and comment on the WHO web site.
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Selected Publications |
Fairchild AL "Science at the Borders: Immigrant Medical Inspection and the Shaping of the Modern Industrial Labor Force, 1891 to 1930" Johns Hopkins MD 2003
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Fairchild AL, Colgrove J "Out of the ashes: the life, death, and rebirth of the "safer" cigarette in the United States" American Journal of Public Health 94 192-204 2004
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Fairchild AL, Bayer R, Colgrove J "The myth of exceptionalism: the history of venereal disease reporting in the Twentieth Century" Law, Medicine, and Ethics 31 624-637 2003
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Fairchild AL, Bayer R "Ethics and the conduct of public health surveillance" Science 303 631-632 2004
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Fairchild AL, Bayer R "The uses and abuses of Tuskegee" Science 284 919-921 1999
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Fairchild AL "Terms of inclusion: immigration policy at the dawn and dusk of the Twentieth Century" American Journal of Public Health 94 528-539 2004
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Fairchild AL "Community and confinement: the evolving experience of isolation for leprosy in Carville, Louisiana" Public Health Reports 3 362-370 2004
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Fairchild AL and Oppenheimer GM "Public health nihilism versus pragmatism: history, politics, and the control of tuberculosis" American Journal of Public Health 88 1105-1117 1998
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Fairchild AL "The polio narratives: dialogues with FDR" Bulletin of the History of Medicine Fall 488-534 2001
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Gostin LO, Bayer R, and Fairchild AL "Ethical and legal challenges posed by SARS: implications for the control of severe infectious disease threats" JAMA 290 3229-3237 2003
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