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Dean, Mailman School of Public Health
Professor of Population and Family Health, Mailman School of Public Health
DeLamar Professor of Public Health Practice, Mailman School of Public Health
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Professor of Gynecology and Obstetrics, College of Physicians and Surgeons
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| Allan Rosenfield, MD, dean of the Mailman School of Public Health, has positioned the School as a major force in New York City’s public health arena and extended its reach around the globe. He has spent his career fighting for the health and well-being of the most vulnerable populations at home and abroad, especially women. An obstetrician gynecologist, Dr. Rosenfield is known for his work on women’s reproductive health and human rights, innovative family planning studies, strategies to address the tragedy of maternal deaths in poor countries, and the HIV/AIDS pandemic, both domestically and globally. His pioneering work has focused on the role of non-medical personnel in prescribing contraceptives, averting maternal mortality and morbidity from pregnancy-related complications, and treatment and care of HIV-infected women and children in resource-poor settings. In addition to being at the forefront for calling attention to women’s health as more than a mere adjunct to child health, Dr. Rosenfield, with Mailman School colleagues, was also among the earliest to voice the ethical challenges of decreasing transmission of HIV to newborns by treating mothers with antiretroviral drugs before delivery, without consideration of ongoing care and treatment of mothers. His early work at the Mailman School focused on clinical, community-based, and school-based reproductive health programs in Northern Manhattan, with special attention to adolescents and family planning. Dean of the Mailman School since 1986, he continues to serve as an advisor to numerous governmental and non-governmental organizations concerned with reproductive rights, maternal and child health, and other public health issues.
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Selected Professional Affiliations |
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Elected Member, Institute of Medicine, National Academy of Sciences |
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Member, Board of Trustees, David and Lucile Packard Foundation |
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Member, Board of Trustees, Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation |
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Member, Board of Trustees, and Chair, Program Board, AmfAR |
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Member, Board of Directors: Doctors of the World; Population Action Intl.; EngenderHealth |
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Member, Council on Foreign Relations |
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| Selected Honors and Awards |
| ▪ Margaret Sanger Award, Planned Parenthood Federation of America, 2006 |
| ▪ Health and Human Rights Leadership Award, Doctors of the World-USA, 2006 |
| ▪ National Association of People with AIDS Award for lifetime dedication to addressing the public health challenges of the HIV/AIDS pandemic, 2005 |
| ▪ Distinguished Service Award, International Federation of Gynecology & Obstetrics, 2000 |
▪ American Public Health Association: Martha May Eliot Award for exceptional achievement in the field of maternal and child health, 2000
Carl S. Shultz Award (Population, Family Planning and Reproductive Health Section), 1995 |
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| Selected Editorial Boards |
| ▪ Member, Editorial Board, Contraceptive Technology Update |
| ▪ Member, Editorial Board, International Journal of Gynecology & Obstetrics |
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Selected New York City Activities |
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AIDS Advisory Council, New York State Department of Health
Project URL: http://www.health.state.ny.us/diseases/aids/about/coordination.htm#advisory
Dr. Rosenfield is a member of the New York State AIDS Advisory Council and he served as chair of the Council from 1995-2005. Created in 1983, the Council’s mission is to advise the Commissioner of Health for New York State and make recommendations about issues related to HIV and AIDS. The Council consists of 17 appointed members whose affiliations include educational and medical institutions; local health departments; nonprofit organizations, including the advocacy and service communities; legislators; and, persons living with HIV/AIDS. The Chair of the Council is designated by the Governor of New York State. Since its establishment, the Council has produced a number of major reports, including reports on: Needle Exchange Programs and Deregulation of Needles and Syringes (1996), Principles and Recommendations Regarding Universal Access to HIV Treatment (1997), HIV Surveillance and Partner Notification in New York State (1998), HIV/AIDS Services in New York State Correctional Facilities (1999) and HIV/AIDS in Communities of Color (2000). The Council has also taken up issues related to women and HIV/AIDS.
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Medical and Health Research Association of New York City
Project URL: http://www.datalink-mhra.org/mhra/S0C0.cfm
Dr. Rosenfield is a member of the board of directors of the Medical and Health Research Association of New York City, Inc. (MHRA). MHRA is an independent, nonprofit organization dedicated to improving the health status and well-being of New Yorkers, with special emphasis on the city's high-risk, underserved populations. MHRA's activities employ a comprehensive approach in recognition of the interplay between socioeconomic factors and health. MHRA was founded in 1957 with the participation of the New York City Department of Health, primarily to facilitate the creation and administration of health research projects. MHRA has since expanded its activities to include the development and operation of health care services, demonstration and research programs, working in collaboration with the New York City Department of Health (NYCDOH), related city and state agencies, and health and social service agencies.
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Health and Mental Hygiene Advisory Council, New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene
Dr. Rosenfield is a member of Advisory Council to the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene. Established in 2003, this collaboration of public health leaders is charged with strengthening New York City's public health and mental hygiene system by facilitating ongoing communication between the Department and relevant stakeholders, promoting public health priorities among policymakers, community leaders, and other audiences, and advising the Department on its priorities and policy agenda.
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Selected Global Activities
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| MTCT-Plus Initiative
Project URL: http://www.mtctplus.org/
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Dr. Rosenfield is co-principal investigator of the MTCT-Plus Initiative, the first major multicounty, family-centered HIV/AIDS care and treatment program in resource-limited countries. Established in 2002, the program links the prevention of maternal-to-child transmission of HIV with care and treatment for HIV-infected women and their HIV-infected children and partners, and provides support for a comprehensive list of services, including: psychosocial, nutritional, and adherence counseling; peer support; infrastructure development; antiretroviral procurement; staff training; and monitoring and evaluation services. MTCT-Plus supports 13 sites in nine countries in sub-Saharan African and Asia, with over 8,000 individuals enrolled in HIV care and treatment to date.
The MTCT-Plus Initiative has informed many other programs, including national government programs aimed at scaling up HIV care and treatment in resource-limited settings. Its model of comprehensive clinical care reaches a broad patient population, and is the foundation of the four major program initiatives within the Mailman School’s International Center for AIDS Care and Treatment Programs.
Countries: Cameroon; Kenya; Mozambique; Rwanda; South Africa; Thailand; Uganda; Zambia
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| BRAC University James P. Grant School of Public Health
Project URL: http://www.bracu.ac.bd/I&S;/sph/index.htm
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Faculty of the Mailman School of Public Health, in collaboration with other schools of public health, have helped launch BRAC University’s James P. Grant School of Public Health in Bangladesh. Dr. Rosenfield chairs the International Academic Advisory Board that has organized financial resources and a teaching team from four continents. Dr. Mushtaque Chowdhury, who recently spent two years as a visiting professor in the Mailman School’s Heilbrunn Department of Population and Family Health, is founding Dean of the BRAC’s School of Public Health. Mailman School professors are teaching in the program and have helped design the School’s MPH curriculum. The creation of this new school of public health is of great importance given the public health challenges of South Asia, and in particular Bangladesh, which is in dire need of an expanded base of locally trained public health professionals. The first cohort of 25 full scholarship students began a one-year intensive MPH degree program in 2005.
Countries: Bangladesh
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| Averting Maternal Death and Disability Program
Project URL: http://www.mailman.hs.columbia.edu/popfam/amdd/
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The Mailman School of Public Health’s Averting Maternal Death and Disability (AMDD) program, established in 1999, works in partnership with developing countries and international agencies to improve the availability, quality, and utilization of emergency obstetric care. Dr. Rosenfield is one of the program's principal investigators. AMDD is based on the concept that most of the obstetric complications that lead to maternal death can neither be predicted nor prevented, but the lives of a vast majority of women can be saved through prompt treatment. Since its founding, the program has supported 83 projects in 51 countries.
The AMDD Network brings together developing country ministries of health, non-governmental organizations, and United Nations Agencies, and is the only global program dedicated to reducing maternal mortality by improving women’s access to life-saving emergency obstetric care. With continued progress and expansion, the AMDD Network is working to meet the United Nations’ Millennium Development Goal of reducing maternal mortality by 75 percent by 2015. The results to date are promising. In 18 major AMDD project areas covering a total population of 180 million people, more than 280,000 women received treatment for obstetric complications over a four-year period -- an increase of 144 percent in the number of women treated. Over the same period, case fatality rates decreased by more than 50 percent on average.
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Selected Publications |
Rosenfield A., Schwartz, K. "Population and Development: Shifting Paradigms, Setting Goals" New England Journal of Medicine 352(7) 647-649 2005
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Mavalankar, D., Rosenfield, A. "A Maternal Mortality in Resource-Poor Settings" American Journal of Public Health 95 200-2003 2005
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Lichtman R, Simpson L, Rosenfield A, "Dr. Guttmacher's Pregancy, Birth and Family Planning" New American Library New York, NY 2003
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Rosenfield A, Morse SS, Yanda K, "September 11: The Response and Role of Public Health" American Journal of Public Health 92 10-11 2002
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Rosenfield, A., Figdor, E. "Where is the M in MTCT?: The Broader Issues in Mother-to-Child Transmission of HIV" American Journal of Public Health 91 703-704 2001
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Rosenfield, A. "After Cairo: Women's Reproductive and Sexual Health, Rights, and Empowerment" American Journal of Public Health 90 1838-1840 2000
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Harrison, P., Rosenfield, A., Eds. "Contraceptive Research and Development: Looking to the Future" National Academy Press Washington, DC Institute of Medicine 1996
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Rosenfield, A. "Women's Reproductive Health" American Journal of Obstetrics & Gynecology 169 125-133 1993
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Rosenfield, A., Maine, D. "Maternal Mortality - A Neglected Tragedy: Where is the M in MCH?" The Lancet ii 83-85 1985
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Rosenfield, A., Limcharoen, C. "Auxiliary Midwife Prescription of Oral Contraceptives" American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology 114(7) 942-949 1972
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