Birn, Anne-Emanuelle

(Última actualización: junio de 2005)


Datos Personales
Educación
Experiencia Laboral
Publicaciones
Revisiones de libros
Editorial advisory boards
Professional organizations
Investigación Actual



DATOS PERSONALES

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

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EDUCACION

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

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EXPERIENCIA LABORAL

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

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PUBLICACIONES

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

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EDITORIAL ADVISORY BOARDS

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

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MANUSCRIPT REVIEWS

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

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PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATIONS

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

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Investigación Actual

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

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