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Senior Fellow, Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University, Atlanta, GA (Jan 2009 – present)
Columnist and feature writer, Los Angeles Times (Mar 2003 – present)


EDUCATION

University of California, San Francisco - San Francisco, CA
Doctor of Philosophy in History

University of California, Berkeley - Berkeley, CA
Master of Journalism
Master of Science in Environmental Health Sciences, Certificate in International Health

Columbia University - New York, NY
Bachelor of Arts in Biology, Concentration in Art History


TEACHING EXPERIENCE

Instructor, History of Public Health, Emory University (Jan 2009 – present)
Instructor, Environmental Health and Development, University of California, Berkeley (Aug 2004 - Jan 2008)
Graduate Student Instructor, Political Economy of Development, University of California, Berkeley (Aug 2002 - Dec 2003)
Graduate Student Instructor, The Political Ecology of Eating, University of California, Berkeley (Sep - Dec 2003)


SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
  • Conis, E. “‘Do We Really Need Hepatitis B on the Second Day of Life?’ Vaccination Mandates and Shifting Representations of Hepatitis B.” Journal of Medical Humanities, vol. 32, no. 2, 2011, p. 155-166.
  • Conis E. “Debating the Health Effects of DDT: Thomas Jukes, Charles Wurster, and the Fate of an Environmental Pollutant.” Public Health Reports, vol. 125, 2010, p. 337-342.
  • Haas M, Ashton T, Blum K, Christiansen T, Conis E, Crivelli L, Lim MK, Lisac M, MacAdam M, and Schlette S. “Drugs, Sex, Money and Power: A Potent Mix for Health Policy.” Health Policy, vol. 92, no. 2, 2009, p. 288-295.  
  • Conis E. “Review: Peter E. Pormann and Emilie Savage-Smith, Medieval Islamic Medicine.” Hortulus, vol. 3, no. 1, 2008.
  • Conis, E. “San Francisco in Quito: Old and New World Sources in a Sixteenth-Century Convento.” Athanor, vol. 22, 2000, p. 35-43.

LECTURES AND PRESENTATIONS
  • “The Gendering of Vaccination Policy, 1968-2008.” Berkshire Conference on the History of Women, Amherst, MA, June 2011.
  • “A Mother’s Responsibility: Women and Vaccine Skepticism in the U.S., 1970s – 1980s.” Annual Meeting of the American Association for the History of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA, April 2011.
  • “Notions of nature and the debate over vaccination in the late 20th century U.S.” 4th International Conference on the History of Occupational and Environmental Health, San Francisco, CA, June 2010.
  • “Hepatitis B Vaccine Mandates and the Making of a Childhood Disease.” Annual Meeting of the American Association for the History of Medicine, Rochester, MN, April 2010.
  • “Filling the gaps? Mandating Nurse Staffing Ratios in the U.S.” Invited presentation, 8th Annual Symposium of the International Network for Health Policy and Reform, Krakow, Poland, July 2009.
  • “Religion, Rights, and Risks: The Debate Over HPV Vaccine Mandates in the U.S.” Western Association of Women Historians Annual Conference, Santa Clara, CA, May 2009.
  • “Debating the Health Effects of DDT: Thomas Jukes, Charles Wurster, and the Fate of an Environmental Pollutant.” Annual Meeting of the American Association for the History of Medicine, Cleveland, OH, April 2009.
  • “Through the Open Window: The Social and Political Context of the Hepatitis B Vaccine Mandates in the U.S.” Annual Southern History of Science and Technology Conference, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA, April 2009.
  • “New Product, Old Problems? Public Debate Over Gardasil in the U.S.” Invited lecture, Bay Area History of Medicine Club, San Francisco, CA, March 2009.
  • “In Historical Perspective: The Controversy over Gardasil and Mandatory Vaccination in the U.S.” Poster presented at the American Public Health Association Annual Meeting, San Diego, CA, October 2008.
  • “Gardasil and the HPV Vaccine Mandate Debates in the U.S.” Joint Atlantic Seminar on the History of Medicine, Yale University, New Haven, CT, September 2008.
  • “Regulation and Approval of the HPV Vaccine in the U.S.” Invited presentation, 7th Annual Symposium of the International Network for Health Policy and Reform, Ljubljana, Slovenia, July 2008.

SELECTED AWARDS
  • Graduate Division Fellowship, University of California, San Francisco, 2008-2009
  • History of Health Sciences Royer Fellowship, University of California, San Francisco, 2008-2009
  • Summer research award, Department of Anthropology, History, and Social Medicine, University of California, San Francisco, 2008
  • Graduate Dean’s Health Science Fellowship, University of California, San Francisco, 2007-2008
  • Jackson Award, Napa Valley Writers Conference, 2007
  • Gobind Behari Lal Award for excellence in science writing, University of California, Berkeley School of Journalism, 2004
  • University of Michigan Population-Environment Fellowship, 2003
  • Copley Newspaper Scholarship, University of California, Berkeley School of Journalism, 2003
  • Mary Louise Ellert Scholarship in Public Health, University of California Berkeley, School of Public Health, 2001
  • Graduate Fellowship, Department of Environmental Health, University of California, Berkeley School of Public Health, 2000-2001

Please contact Elena for a complete CV.