Gerald Oppenheimer

  Professor
  Department: Health and Nutrition Sciences
  Location: 5126 Ingersoll Hall
  Phone: 718-951-5000 x2740
  Fax: 718-951-4670

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Broeklundian Distinguished Professor

Professor in the Department of History, the Graduate Center, CUNY

Professor in the Doctorate in Public Health Program, the Graduate Center, CUNY

I am an historian, health policy analyst, and epidemiologist. My research has included: analysis of health services in New York City, the costs of funding health services for those with HIV AIDS, ethical issues raised by the HIV/AIDS epidemic for the private health insurance system in the U.S. I have written on the history of the HIV/AIDS epidemic in the United States and South Africa, and the history of coronary heart disease epidemiology in the U.S.

Education:
M.P.H., Columbia University - 1979 (Epidemiology)

DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY, UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO - 1976 (HISTORY)

Areas of Expertise:
I have expertise in the history of public health and medicine, with particular focus on the history of epidemiology, the history of public health in the United States in the 20th century, and the history of the HIV/AIDS epidemic in the U.S. and South Africa.

Books and Publications
Bayer, R. and Oppenheimer, G. Roll-out and Rationing: Providing Anti-Retroviral Therapy in South Africa in HIV/AIDS: Stories of an Epidemic. Cynthia Pope, Renee White, Robert Marlow, eds. (Routledge, 2008).
(Books and Publications: Chapter) 2008

Bayer, R. and Oppenheimer, G. Scale Ups, Scarcity and Selection: The Historical Experience of Doctors in South Africa. AIDS. 2007; 21(supplement 5):543-547.
(Books and Publications: Peer Reviewed Article) 2007

Oppenheimer G.and Susser, E. Invited Commentary: The context and challenge of von
Pettenkofer's contributions to epidemiology. American Journal of Epidemiology. 2007; 166:1239-1241.
(Books and Publications: Peer Reviewed Article) 2007

Oppenheimer,G., Bayer R. Shattered Dreams: An Oral History of the South African AIDS Epidemic (NY:Oxford University Press). (Books and Publications: Book) 2007

Bayer R, Oppenheimer G. Pioneers in AIDS Care--Reflections on the Epidemic's Early Years, New England Journal of Medicine 355: 2273-2275. (Books and Publications: Peer Reviewed Article) 2006

Oppenheimer G, Bayer, R. Choosing Between Life and Death: Rationing of Health Care during the AIDS Epidemic in South Africa. in L' Épidémie du SIDA en Afrique subsaharienne. Regards historiens. Becker, Denis, eds, Paris: Karthala, 2006.

(Books and Publications: Chapter) 2006

Oppenheimer G. Profiling Risk: The Emergence of Coronary Heart Disease in the United States (1947-70), International Journal of Epidemiology, 35:720-730. (Books and Publications: Peer Reviewed Article) 2006

Oppenheimer G. Becoming the Framingham Study, 1947-50. American Journal of Public Health, 95: 602-610. (Books and Publications: Peer Reviewed Article) 2005

Oppenheimer G, Bayer R, Colgrove J. Health and Human Rights: Old Wine in New Bottles? Law, Medicine & Ethics, 30: 522-532. (Books and Publications: Peer Reviewed Article) 2002

Oppenheimer G, Rosner D. Two Lives, Three Legs, One Journey: A Retrospective Appreciation of Zena Stein and Mervyn Susser, International Journal of Epidemiology, 31: 49-53. (Books and Publications: Peer Reviewed Article) 2002

Oppenheimer G. Paradigm Lost: Race, Ethnicity, and the Search for a New Population Taxonomy, American Journal of Public Health, 91: 1049-1055. (Books and Publications: Peer Reviewed Article) 2001

Bayer R, Oppenheimer, G. AIDS Doctors: Voices From the Epidemic (Oxford University Press) Paperback edition, 2002. (Books and Publications: Book) 2000

Fairchild A, Oppenheimer G. Public Health Nihilism versus Pragmatism: History, Politics and the Control of Tuberculosis, American Journal of Public Health, 88: 1105-1117. (Books and Publications: Peer Reviewed Article) 1998

Bayer R., Oppenheimer G. Confronting Drug Policy: Illicit Drugs in a Free Society (NY: Cambridge University Press). (Books and Publications: Edited Book) 1993

Awards, Honors and Fellowships
National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship (Grants and Fellowships) 2007

Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums
Oppenheimer, G and Bayer, R . "Shattered Dreams? An Oral History of the South African AIDS Epidemic," Provosts's Invited Talk, State University of California at Northridge, March 14, 2008. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2008

Oppenheimer, G. "Shattered Dreams? An Oral History," Concilium on Southern Africa, Duke University, October 30, 2008.
(Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2008

Oppenheimer, G. "The AIDS Pandemic in Global/Historical Perspective," American Historical Association, Washington, D.C. , January 3, 2008. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2008

Oppenheimer, G. and Bayer, R. "Shattered Dreams?: An Oral History of the South African AIDS Epidemic." Annual John Conley Lecture, State University of New York in
Brooklyn, Downstate, May 8, 2008.
(Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2008

Oppenheimer, G. "Shattered Dreams?" New York Academy of Medicine, May 22, 2007. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2007

Oppenheimer, G. and Bayer, R. "Shattered Dreams? An Oral History of the South African AIDS Epidemic" Oral History Association, Oakland, California, October 26, 2007. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Conference Presentation) 2007

Oppenheimer, G. and Bayer, R. "Shattered Dreams?" Seventh Annual Horace Davenport Lecture In the Medical Humanities, University of Michigan, October 23, 2007.
(Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2007

Oppenheimer, G. and Bayer, R. "Shattered Dreams?: An Oral History of the South African AIDS Epidemic," International AIDS Vaccine Initiative, December 4, 2007. (Conferences, Seminars and Symposiums: Invited Talk) 2007