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Address
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
| 1997
| Columbia University
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| MPH
| 1990
| Columbia University
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| BA
| 1987
| University of Texas
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Associate 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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