Gerald Oppenheimer

(University of Chicago), MPH (Columbia University), is a retired professor of health policy and management at CUNY SPH and at the CUNY Graduate Center. Previously, he was a Broeklundian Distinguished Professor at Brooklyn College, where he taught for 30 years. He published extensively on the HIV/AIDS epidemic, on the history and ethics of public health, and the history of chronic disease epidemiology, in particular cardiovascular disease and psychiatric disorders. His edited volume with Anne Lovell of INSERM in France, Reimagining Psychiatric Epidemiology: A Global Perspective, was published in 2022. With Ronald Bayer of Columbia University, he published three books. He co-edited Confronting Drug Policy: Illicit Drugs in a Free Society (Cambridge U. Press, 1993) and co-authored AIDS Doctors: Voices from the Epidemic (Oxford U. Press, 2000) and Shattered Dreams? An Oral History of the South African Epidemic (Oxford U. Press, 2007). His articles appeared in the New England Journal of Medicine, Science, American Journal of Public Health, the International Journal of Epidemiology, and Social Research, as well as other professional journals of medicine, public health, ethics and law. He served as contributing editor to the American Journal of Public Health from 1994 through 1997, a special volumes editor for the Milbank Quarterly, and on the editorial board of the international journal, Public Health Reviews. He had numerous grants and fellowships, including funding from the NIH, Rockefeller Foundation, Aaron Diamond Foundation, American Foundation for AIDS Research, Legacy Foundation, and others.