'AIDS at 30: Doing Ethics in an Epidemic'

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Posted on 18 May 2011


On Tuesday 31st May, 2011 2.00-3.30pm Professor Ronald Bayer, Columbia University, will give a talk entitled

'AIDS at 30: Doing Ethics in an Epidemic'

Venue: Moser Building: CM 0.12a/b

Ronald Bayer, Ph.D., is a Professor and Co-Director at the Center for the History and Ethics of Public Health at the Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University.  His research has focused on AIDS, tuberculosis, illicit drugs, and tobacco.  He is an elected member of the Institute of Medicine of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences, and has served on its committees dealing with the social impact of AIDS, tuberculosis elimination, vaccine safety, smallpox vaccination and the Ryan White Care Act.  He has been a consultant to the World Health Organization on ethical issues related to public health surveillance, HIV and tuberculosis.

His articles on AIDS have appeared in the New England Journal of Medicine, the Journal of the American Medical Association, The Lancet, the American Journal of Public Health, and The Milbank Quarterly. His books include: Homosexuality and American Psychiatry: The Politics of Diagnosis (1981),Private Acts, Social Consequences: AIDS and the Politics of Public Health (1989), AIDS in the Industrialized Democracies: Passions, Politics and Policies (1991), edited with David Kirp; Blood Feuds: Blood, AIDS and the Politics of Medical Disaster (1999), edited with Eric Feldman; AIDS Doctors: Voices from the Epidemic, (2000), written with Gerald Oppenheimer; Mortal Secrets: Truth and Lies in the Age of AIDS (2003), written with Robert Klitzman; and Shattered Dreams? An Oral History of the South Africa AIDS Epidemic (2007) written with Gerald Oppenheimer.  ?

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