I am currently Senior Fellow in the Center
for Health, Culture and Society at Emory University and a PhD Candidate
in the Department of Anthropology, History and Social Medicine at the
University of California at San Francisco. My research concerns the
social history of vaccination and the politics of environmentalism and
public health in the late 20th century U.S. I write a regular column
for
the Los Angeles Times; since 2003, I have covered alternative medicine,
nutrition and the history of medicine for the paper. I taught public
health at the University of California at Berkeley from 2004 to 2007,
and I currently teach a course on the history of public health at Emory.
I’ve also worked as a consultant for a variety of health, development
and media organizations, including:
- California
HealthCare Foundation
- Children's
Environmental Health Network
- Center for
Occupational and Environmental Health
- David and
Lucile Packard Foundation
- Institute
for Global Health
- Institute
for Health Policy Reform
- New
America Media
- Public
Health Institute
- Washington
Toxics Coalition