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Ronald Bayer

Professor of Sociomedical Sciences

and:
Co-Director, Center for the History and Ethics of Public Health

Education & Training:

PhD, University of Chicago, 1976

Affiliation(s):

Mailman School Affiliations:

    Additional Affiliations:

    • Member, Institute of Medicine
    • Fellow, The Hastings Center
    Honors and Awards:
      • New York Times, Notable Books of the Year (1989)
      • American Library Association, Outstanding Books (1989)
      • Britannica Book of the Year (1990)
      • Member, Institute of Medicine (2002)
      • Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, Health Policy Investigator Award (2005)

      Selected Editorial Boards

      • Associate Editor, Public Health Ethics
      • Editorial Board, Milbank Quarterly
    Selected
    Global
    Activities:
      World Health Organization
      Consultant on ethical issues in AIDS and tuberculosis


    Selected Publications:
      R. Bayer and C. Edington "HIV Testing, Human Rights, and Global AIDS Policy: Exceptionalism and Its Discontents" Journal of Health Policy, Politics and Law,  34(3) 301-23 2009

      R. Bayer "Homosexuality and American Psychiatry: The Politics of Diagnosis" Basic Books (Paperback) / Princeton University Press 1981 / 1987

      R. Bayer  "Private Acts, Social Consequences: AIDS and the Politics of Public Health"  Free Press (Paperback) /Rutgers University Press 1989/1991

      R. Bayer and G. Oppenheimer "AIDS Doctors: Voices from the Epidemic" Oxford University Press 2000

      R. Klitzman and R. Bayer "Mortal Secrets: Truth and Lies in the Age of AIDS" (ohns Hopkins University Press  2003

      E. Feldman and R. Bayer  "Unfiltered: Conflicts Over Tobacco Policy and Public Health" Harvard University Press 2004

      G. Oppenheimer and R. Bayer "Shattered Dreams?: An Oral History of the South African AIDS Epidemic "  Oxford University Press 2007

      A.L. Fairchild, R. Bayer and J. Colgrove with D. Wolfe  "Searching Eyes: Privacy, the State, and Disease Surveillance in America " California/Milbank Books 2007

      R. Bayer "Public Health Policy and the AIDS Epidemic: An End to HIV Exceptionalism??" New England Journal of Medicine   324 (21) 1500-1504. 1991

      J. Colgrove and R. Bayer,  "Could It Happen Here? Vaccine Risk Controversies and the Specter of Derailment" Heath Affairs 24(3) 729-739 2005

      R. Bayer "Stigma and the Ethics of Public Health: Not Can We But Should We?" Social Science & Medicine 67 (3) 463?472 2008

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    Contact Information

    Office/Address:

    New York, NY 10032

    Phone:

    212-305-1957

    Fax:

    212-342-1986

    E-mail:

    rb8@columbia.edu