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Anne-Emanuelle Birn
Canada Research Chair in International
Health
Associate Professor
Department of Public Health Sciences
Faculty of Medicine
1st Floor, McMurrich Bldg.
12 Queen's Park Cres. West
University of Toronto
Toronto, ON M5S 1A8
Canada
Phone (416) 946-5792
FAX (416) 978-2087
Email: ae.birn@utoronto.ca
Johns Hopkins School of Hygiene and
Public Health, Baltimore, MD
Sc.D. in Health Policy, Delta Omega
Honor Society, 1993
Dissertation: "Local Health and
Foreign Wealth: The Rockefeller Foundation's Public Health Programs in
Mexico, 1924-1951." Advisor: Elizabeth Fee
University of Canterbury, Christchurch,
New Zealand
M.A. in History, First Class Honors,
1988
Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
B.A. in History of Science, Magna
Cum Laude, 1986
July 2003- University of Toronto,
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Department of Social Sciences (University
of Toronto at Scarborough) and Department of Public Health Sciences (University
of Toronto, Faculty of Medicine)
Canada Research Chair in International
Health and Associate Professor
July 2001-June 2003 Milano Graduate
School, New School University, New York, NY, USA
Associate Professor of Health Policy
and History and
Chair of Urban Studies Concentration
(Eugene Lang College, New School University, New York, NY)
March – August 1999 Population Program, Facultad de Ciencias Sociales, Universidad
June- August 2000 de la República, Montevideo, Uruguay
January-March 2001 Visiting Professor
July 1994 - June 2001 Milano Graduate
School, New School for Social Research, New York, NY
Assistant Professor of Health Policy
and History
January 1994 - June 1996 Johns Hopkins
School of Hygiene and Public Health, Baltimore, MD
Faculty Associate, taught 2 courses
on Historical Issues in Health Care
November 1993 - January 1995 Pan
American Health Organization, Washington, DC
International Health Resident and
Director of project on the history of public health in Latin America and
the Caribbean
October 1991 - March 1992 AIDS Program,
Catalunya Health Department, Barcelona, Spain
Director of policy and program for
school placement of HIV+ children
May 1989 - December 1990 Baltimore
City Health Department, Division of School and Adolescent Health
Policy analyst and researcher on
child and teen health
February - June 1990 Milbank Memorial
Fund, New York, NY
Research associate for project on
the history of chronic disease policy
Summers 1986 and 1988 Governor's
School of South Carolina, College of Charleston, Charleston, SC
International student advisor and
counselor
Summer 1985 Student Rural Health Coalition, Littleton, NC, Community organizer for health fairs
BOOKS:
Birn, Anne-Emanuelle. Marriage of Convenience: Rockefeller International Health and Revolutionary Mexico, University of Rochester Press, forthcoming 2006.
Birn, Anne-Emanuelle; Pillay, Yogan; and Holtz, Tim. Textbook
of International Health, 3rd edition. Oxford University Press, forthcoming
2007.
EDITED JOURNAL VOLUMES:
Birn, Anne-Emanuelle and Fein, Oliver. American Journal of Public Health 2003, 93 (1), special issue on “Health Care Reform.”
Birn, Anne-Emanuelle and Fergerson, Gerard. Radical History
Review 80, 2001, 80 (Spring), special issue on “Health Politics/Health
Workers.”
PEER-REVIEWED JOURNAL ARTICLES:
Birn, Anne-Emanuelle. "Gates's Grandest Challenge: Overcoming Technology as Public Health Ideology." The Lancet, early online publication (print version to follow), March 11, 2005, pp. 1-6.
Birn, Anne-Emanuelle and Molina, Natalia. “In the Name of Public Health.” American Journal of Public Health, forthcoming, 2005.
Birn, Anne-Emanuelle. “Desperately Seeking Decentralization: The Mexican Health Sector in Two Eras of Reform.” Dynamis, forthcoming, 2005.
Birn, Anne-Emanuelle. “Going Global: Uruguay, Child Well-Being, and International Health, 1890-1940.” American Journal of Public Health, forthcoming, 2005.
Birn, Anne-Emanuelle, Pollero, Raquel, and Cabella, Wanda. “No
Se Debe Llorar sobre Leche Derramada: El Pensamiento Epidemiológico
y la Mortalidad Infantil en Uruguay, 1900-1940.” Estudios Interdisciplinarios
de América Latina, 2003, 14 (1):35-65.
Reprinted in Sesiones de la Sociedad Uruguaya de Historia de la
Medicina, 2003, XXI.: 288-323.
Birn, Anne-Emanuelle and Fein, Oliver. “Why Rekindling Reform?” American
Journal of Public Health 2003,
93 (1), 15-16.
Birn, Anne-Emanuelle; Brown, Theodore; Fee, Elizabeth; and Lear, Walter. "Struggles for National Health Reform in the United States.” American Journal of Public Health 2003, 93 (1): 86-91.
Birn, Anne-Emanuelle. "No More Surprising Than a Broken Pitcher? Maternal and Child Health in the Early Years of the Pan American Sanitary Bureau." Canadian Bulletin of Medical History, 2002, 19(1): 17-46.
Birn, Anne-Emanuelle and Fergerson, Gerard. “Editors’ Introduction” Radical History Review 80, 2001, 80 (Spring), 1-3.
Birn, Anne-Emanuelle. “Wa(i)ves of Influence: Rockefeller Public Health in Mexico, 1920-1950.” Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences, 2000, 31(3):381-395.
Gómez-Dantés, Héctor and Birn, Anne-Emanuelle. “Malaria and Social Movements in Mexico: The Last 60 Years.” Parassitologia, 2000, 42:69-85.
Birn, Anne-Emanuelle, Zimmerman, Sarah, and Garfield, Richard. “To Decentralize or Not to Decentralize, Is That the Question?: Nicaraguan Health Policy under Structural Adjustment in the 1990s.” International Journal of Health Services, 2000, 30(1):111-128.
Birn, Anne-Emanuelle and Solórzano, Armando. "Public Health Policy Paradoxes: Science and Politics in the Rockefeller Foundation’s Hookworm Campaign in Mexico in the 1920s." Social Science and Medicine, 1999, 49(9): 1197-1213.
Birn, Anne-Emanuelle. “Federalist Flirtations: The Politics and Execution of Health Services Decentralization for the Uninsured Population in Mexico, 1985-1995.” Journal of Public Health Policy, 1999, 20 (1): 81-108.
Birn, Anne-Emanuelle. "Skirting the Issue: Women and International
Health in Historical Perspective.” American Journal of Public Health,
March 1999, 89(3): 399-407.
Reprinted in Milano Review, 2002, 2: 17-29.
Krieger, Nancy and Birn, Anne-Emanuelle. “A Vision of Social Justice
as the Foundation of
Public Health: Commemorating 150 Years of the Spirit of 1848.” American
Journal of Public Health, November 1998, 88(11): 1603-1606.
Birn, Anne-Emanuelle. “Eradication, Control or Neither? Hookworm vs. Malaria Strategies and Rockefeller Public Health in Mexico.” Parassitologia, 1998, 40(1-2):137-147.
Birn, Anne-Emanuelle. "A Revolution in Rural Health?: The Struggle over Local Health Units in Mexico, 1928-1940." Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences, 1998, 53(1):43-76.
Birn, Anne-Emanuelle. “Six Seconds Per Eyelid: The Medical Inspection of Immigrants at Ellis Island, 1892-1914.” Dynamis, 1997, 17:281-316.
Birn, Anne-Emanuelle. "Public Health or Public Menace? The Rockefeller Foundation and Public Health in Mexico: 1920-1950." Voluntas, 1996, 7(1):35-56.
Cueto, Marcos and Birn, Anne-Emanuelle. "Syllabus del Curso-Historia Social de la Salud Pública en América Latina." História, Ciências, Saúde - Manguinhos, 1996, 3(1):181-193.
Santelli, John; Birn, Anne-Emanuelle; and Linde, James. "School Placement for HIV-Infected Children: The Baltimore City Experience." Pediatrics, 1992, 89(5):843-848.
Birn, Anne-Emanuelle; Santelli, John; and Burwell, LaWanda. "Pediatric AIDS in the United States: Epidemiological Reality Versus Government Policy." International Journal of Health Services, 1990, 20(4):617-30.
Santelli, John; Rosenblatt, Lisa; and Birn, Anne-Emanuelle. "Estimates of Public Costs for Teenage Childbearing in Baltimore City in Fiscal Year 1987." Maryland Medical Journal, 1990, 39(5):459-464.
Birn, Anne-Emanuelle. "Healthy, Wealthy, and Wise: The Urge Toward
Health Insurance in New Zealand and the United States." Historical News,
May 1988, 56:6-9.
PEER-REVIEWED JOURNAL ARTICLES SUBMITTED FOR CONSIDERATION:
Birn, Anne-Emanuelle. "Old Milk, New Breasts: Uruguay’s Infant
Mortality Stagnation, 1900-1950," submitted to the Bulletin of the History
of Medicine.
BOOK CHAPTERS:
Birn, Anne-Emanuelle. "No More Surprising Than a Broken Pitcher? Maternal and Child Health in the Early Years of the Pan American Sanitary Bureau," in Children's Health: International Historical Perspectives edited by Cheryl Warsh and Veronica Strong-Boag. Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2005.
Birn, Anne-Emanuelle. “Revolution, the Scatological Way: The Rockefeller Foundation’s Hookworm Campaign in 1920s Mexico,” in Disease in the History of Modern Latin America: From Malaria to AIDS, edited by Diego Armus, Duke University Press, 2003, pp. 158-182.
Birn, Anne-Emanuelle and Solórzano, Armando. "The Hook of Hookworm: Public Health and the Politics of Eradication in Mexico," in Western Medicine as Contested Knowledge, edited by Andrew Cunningham and Bridie Andrews. Manchester University Press/St. Martin’s Press, 1997, pp. 147-171.
Birn, Anne-Emanuelle. “Dr. Miguel Bustamante,” in Doctors, Nurses, and Practitioners, edited by Lois Magner. Westwood, CT: Greenwood Press, 1997, pp. 30-36.
Birn, Anne-Emanuelle. "Las Unidades Sanitarias: La Fundación Rockefeller vs. el Modelo Cárdenas en México," in Salud, Cultura y Sociedad en América Latina: Nuevas Perspectivas Históricas, edited by Marcos Cueto. Washington D.C./Lima, Peru: Pan American Health Organization/Instituto de Estudios Peruanos, 1996, pp. 203-33.
Cueto, Marcos and Birn, Anne-Emanuelle. "Syllabus del Curso-Historia Social de la Salud Pública en América Latina," in Salud, Cultura y Sociedad en América Latina: Nuevas Perspectivas Históricas, edited by Marcos Cueto. Washington D.C./Lima, Peru: Pan American Health Organization/Instituto de Estudios Peruanos, 1996, pp. 235-253.
Birn, Anne Emanuelle. "Enfermería e Historia de la Salud Pública," in Memorias de la IV Conferencia Latinoamericana de Escuelas y Facultades de Enfermería, edited by Isabel C. de Ballivián. La Paz, Bolivia: Unión de Universidades de América Latina, 1995.
Birn, Anne-Emanuelle. "El Pasado como Presagio?: México, la Salud Pública y la Fundación Rockefeller," in La Medicina al Final del Milenio: Realidades y Proyectos en la Sociedad Occidental, edited by Francisco J. Mercado Martínez and Leticia Robles Silva. Guadalajara, Mexico: University of Guadalajara Press, 1995, pp. 135-155.
Birn, Anne-Emanuelle; Santelli, John; and Burwell, LaWanda. "Pediatric AIDS in the United States: Epidemiological Reality Versus Government Policy," in AIDS: The Politics of Survival, edited by Nancy Krieger and Glen Margo. Amityville, NY: Baywood Publishing Company, 1994.
ENCYCLOPEDIA ENTRIES:
Birn, Anne-Emanuelle. "The Rockefeller Foundation and Public Health in Mexico" in Encyclopedia of Social Welfare History in North America, SAGE Publications, 2004, 308-311.
Birn, Anne-Emanuelle. "Luis Morquio" in Dictionary of Medical Biography,
Bill Bynum, Helen Bynum, eds. Greenwood Press, forthcoming 2005.
BOOK REVIEWS:
Bulletin of the History of Medicine
2005 Laura Briggs, Reproducing Empire: Race, Sex, Science, and U.S.
Imperialism in Puerto Rico
2003(77):748-50 Marcos Cueto, Culpa y Coraje: Historia de las
Políticas sobre el VIH/SIDA en el Perú
2000(74):632-4 María Isabel Porras Gallo, Un Reto para la Sociedad
Madrileña: La Epidemia de Gripe de 1918-1919
1999(73):707-8 Luz María Hernández Sáenz, Learning
to Heal: The Medical Profession in Colonial Mexico, 1767-1831
1996(70):137-8 Marcos Cueto, ed., Missionaries of Science: The Rockefeller
Foundation and Latin America
1994(68):529-30 Elvira Arquiola and Luis Montiel, La Corona de las
Ciencias Naturales: La Medicina en el Tránsito del Siglo XVIII al
XIX
Hispanic American Historical Review
1998(78):323-4 Mario Humberto Ruz, ed., Semillas de Industria:
Transformaciones de la Tecnología Indígena en las Américas
International History Review
2004(26):869-72 William H. Schneider, ed., Rockefeller Philanthropy
and Modern Biomedicine: International Initiatives from World War I to the
Cold War
Isis
2003(94):754-5 Ilana Löwy, Virus, Moustiques, et Modernité:
La Fièvre Jaune au Brésil entre Science et Politique
Journal of Public Health Policy
2000(21):360-2 Eileen Stillwaggon, Stunted Lives, Stagnant Economies:
Poverty, Disease, and Underdevelopment
1999(20):504-7 Anne Fadiman, The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down:
A Hmong Child, Her American Doctors, and the Collision of Two Cultures
Journal of the American Medical Association
2003(289):1999 Ichiro Kawachi and Bruce P. Kennedy, The Health
of Nations: Why Inequality is Harmful to Your Health
Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences
2001(56):102-4 Sheldon Watts, Epidemics and History: Disease,
Power, and Imperialism
Latin American Research Review
2005 (40):176-92 Essay Review: “Healers, Healing, and Child Well-being:
Ideologies, Institutions, and Health in Latin America and the Caribbean”
Medical History
1998(42):254-5 Josep Lluis Barona, Ciencia e Historia: Debates y Tendencias
en la Historiografía de la Ciencia
1993(37):217-8 Nancy Stepan, “The Hour of Eugenics”: Race, Gender and
Nation in Latin America
Social History of Medicine
1996(9):304-5 Kaja Finkler, Women in Pain: Gender and Morbidity in
Mexico and
Richard Luecke, ed., A New Dawn in Guatemala: Toward a Worldwide Health
Vision
International Journal of Health Services, Editorial Consultant
Journal of Public Health Policy
Science, Technology & Society - An International Journal Devoted to the Developing World
University of Guadalajara Press, Social Medicine Series
American Journal of Public Health
Bulletin of the History of Medicine
Bulletin of the Pan American Health Organization
Educación Médica y Salud
International Journal of Health Services
Journal of Historical Sociology
Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences
Journal of Public Health Policy
Social History of Medicine
Social Science and Medicine
Urban Affairs Review
Voluntas
American Association for the History of Medicine
American Public Health Association, International Health Section; Spirit of 1848, Steering Committee member
Asociación Latinoamericana de Medicina Social
History of Science Society
International Association of Health Policy
Latin American Studies Association
Science and Empire Network
Sigerist Circle of Medical Historians
Sociedad Latinoamericana de Historia de Ciencia y Tecnología
Society for the Social History of Medicine
Study of the dynamics of mortality in Uruguay from the 1880s through the 1940s
History of women’s health in the context of international health programs.
Comparative analysis of US and Soviet influences on Latin American public health
History of international health