Research Support

My research projects on the history of vaccines, vaccination, and chemical exposures in U.S. history have been supported by the: 

-Guggenheim Foundation; 

-National Endowment for the Humanities

-National Institutes of Medicine/National Library of Medicine

-Science History Institute

-California HealthCare Foundation

-Bertelsmann Foundation

-UCLA's Charles Donald O'Malley Research Fellowship

-Emory University's Mellon Foundation Faculty Fellowship in Health and the Humanities; and 

-the University of California, Berkeley.

My current research projects examine: 

-the global history of measles 

-corporate influence over public understanding of health science in the U.S.

-the history of U.S. vaccination exemption policies

-mass poisonings and toxic exposures in U.S. history; and

-the history of vaccines and vaccination.