Dr. David Rosner is a member of the Executive Committee for the Columbia University Center for Homelessness Prevention Studies. Dr. Rosner is Professor of Sociomedical Sciences in History and Public Health at Columbia University and Director of the Center for the History of Public Health at Columbia’s Mailman School of Public Health. Dr. Rosner is a nationally known historian focusing in the area of health, mental health and social policy, with special reference to issues of poverty and race. He has authored numerous books and articles on the historical evolution of caring institutions and histories of diseases of working class populations. He has been a Guggenheim Fellow, was awarded the Distinguished Scholar’s Prize from the City University, the Viseltear Prize for Outstanding Scholarship in the History of Public Health from the Medical Care Section of the American Public Health Association, and the Distinguished Alumnus Award from the University of Massachusetts.

Areas of expertise
History of public health; oral history methods

Selected publications

Rosner D, Markowitz G (2003). Politicizing science: the case of Bush administration’s influence on the lead advisory panel at the Centers for Disease Control Journal of Public Health Policy 24 104-129.

Rosner D, Markowitz G. (2003) September 11 and the Shifting Priorities of Public and Population Health in New York, Milbank Memorial Fund, New York.

Markowitz G, Rosner D (2002) Deceit and Denial: The Deadly Politics of Industrial Pollution University of California Press Berkeley.