Professor of Sociomedical Sciences, Mailman School of Public Health
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Professor of History, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences
Director,
Center for the History and Ethics of Public Health
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| Dr. David Rosner is professor of History and Public Health at Columbia University and Director of the Center for the History of Public Health at Columbia’s Mailman School of Public Health. With Gerald Markowitz, he co- authored Deceit and Denial: The Deadly Politics of Industrial Pollution, (University of California Press and the Milbank Memorial Fund, 2002). Before moving to Columbia in 1998 he was University Distinguished Professor of History at the City University of New York. Presently, he is the recipient of a Robert Wood Johnson Investigator Award. In addition to numerous grants, he has been a Guggenheim Fellow, a National Endowment for the Humanities Fellow and
a Josiah Macy Fellow. He has been awarded the Distinguished Scholar’s Prize from the City University and recently, the Viseltear Prize for Outstanding Work in the History of Public Health from the APHA and the Distinguished Alumnus Award from the University of Massachusetts.
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Selected Professional Affiliations |
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Member, APHA Medical Care Section |
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APHA Governing Council, 1994-1996 |
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Chair, Viseltear Committee, APHA Medical Care, 1991-2000 |
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Member, Sigma Xi, Honorary Science Fraternity |
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Contributing Editor, Public Health Reports, 2002- |
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Editorial Board, Journal of Public Health Policy, 1999- |
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| Selected Honors and Awards |
| ▪ RWJ Health Policy Investigator Award, 2002-2005 |
| ▪ Arthur Viseltear Award, Medical Care Section, APHA, 2000 |
| ▪ Guggenheim Fellow, 1987-1988 |
| ▪ NEH Fellow, 1983-1984 |
| ▪ Upton Sinclair Award, American Industrial Hygiene Association, 2005 |
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| Selected Editorial Boards |
| ▪ Editorial Board, Public Health Reports |
| ▪ Editorial Board, Journal of Public Health Policy |
| ▪ Editorial Board, University of Rochester Press series on the history of public health |
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Selected New York City Activities |
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September 11th and public health
Dr. Rosner has organized and written reports on September 11th and its impact on public health infrastructure for the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and Milbank Fund. The Milbank Fund published three of his special reports. His recent book, Are We Ready: Public Health since 9/11 was published by the University of California Press/Milbank in 2006.
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Author of books on NYC
Dr. Rosner is the author of A Once Charitable Enterprise: Hospitals and Health Care in Brooklyn and New York (Cambridge University Press).
Author of: Children, Race and Power, (Routledge Press)
Editor of:"Hives of Sickness: Epidemics and Public Health in New York City
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Television and movie documentaries on New York City
Dr. Rosner was interviewed for NOVA’s documentary The Most Dangerous Woman in the World: Typhoid Mary, which aired in October, 2004. He was also interviewed for a Greater New York Hospital Association documentary on New York Hospitals. Alsdo, his work and he were featured on Bill Moyers' PBS Special: Trade Secrets. Also, his documents and he were in an HBO special, Blue Vinyl.
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Selected Global Activities
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| lectures in UK
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Dr. Rosner was a keynote speaker at an international conference on the medical humanities and ethics at the University College London in September 2004. Also, Cass Lecturer University College London; also lecturer, University at Exeter
Countries: United Kingdom
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| IREX Program on Eastern Europe and EHESS Program in Paris
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Dr. Rosner was one of a number of historians invited to a two-week seminar with Hungarian historians. Also Visitjng Fauclty, Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris, France.
Countries: Hungary
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| Internaitonal Silicosis Project
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This is a project on thei nternational comparison of an occupational disease, sdilicosis. It is headquarted in Paris, France and grew out of a lecture Rosner gave at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales.
Countries: France
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Selected Publications |
David Rosner and Gerald Markowitz "Are We Ready? Public Health Since 9/11" University of California Press Berkely, California, US 2006
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