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Gerald M. Oppenheimer is an Associate Professor of Clinical Sociomedical Sciences at Columbia University and Professor of History at Brooklyn College and the CUNY Graduate Center. Much of Dr. Oppenheimer's work since 1984 has focused on the HIV epidemic, an area in which he has undertaken both health policy and historical research. Most recently, with Ronald Bayer, he has launched an oral history of the experience of South African doctors and nurses committed to treating people with HIV/AIDS. The study is modeled on their book on American physicians, AIDS Doctors: Voices From the Epidemic (NY: Oxford University Press, 2000). In addition, Dr. Oppenheimer has begun research on a history of the Framingham Heart Disease Study (1948- ), part of a larger work on the history of the development, since 1945, of coronary heart disease epidemiology and its effect on U.S. scientific policy and American culture. He is a graduate of the City University of New York who earned a PhD in history at the University of Chicago, later receiving post-doctoral training in epidemiology at Columbia University.
Books and Publications:
Bayer, R. and Oppenheimer, G. Roll-out and Rationing: Providing Anti-Retroviral
Therapy in South Africa
in HIV/AIDS: Stories of an Epidemic. Cynthia Pope, Renee White, Robert Marlow,
eds. (Routledge, 2008).
(Books and Publications: Chapter) 2008
Bayer, R. and Oppenheimer, G. Scale Ups, Scarcity and Selection: The Historical
Experience of Doctors in South Africa. AIDS. 2007; 21(supplement 5):543-547.
(Books and Publications: Peer Reviewed Article) 2007
Oppenheimer G.and Susser, E. Invited Commentary: The context and challenge of von
Pettenkofer's contributions to epidemiology. American Journal of Epidemiology. 2007; 166:1239-1241.
(Books and Publications: Peer Reviewed Article) 2007
Oppenheimer,G., Bayer R. Shattered Dreams: An Oral History of the South African AIDS Epidemic (NY:Oxford University Press). (Books and Publications: Book) 2007
Bayer R, Oppenheimer G. Pioneers in AIDS Care--Reflections on the Epidemic's Early Years, New England Journal of Medicine 355: 2273-2275. (Books and Publications: Peer Reviewed Article) 2006
Oppenheimer G, Bayer, R. Choosing Between Life and Death: Rationing of Health Care during the AIDS Epidemic in South Africa. in L' Épidémie du SIDA en Afrique subsaharienne. Regards historiens. Becker, Denis, eds, Paris: Karthala, 2006.
Oppenheimer G. Profiling Risk: The Emergence of Coronary Heart Disease in the United States (1947-70), International Journal of Epidemiology, 35:720-730. (Books and Publications: Peer Reviewed Article) 2006
Oppenheimer G. Becoming the Framingham Study, 1947-50. American Journal of Public Health, 95: 602-610. (Books and Publications: Peer Reviewed Article) 2005
Oppenheimer G, Bayer R, Colgrove J. Health and Human Rights: Old Wine in New Bottles? Law, Medicine & Ethics, 30: 522-532. (Books and Publications: Peer Reviewed Article) 2002
Oppenheimer G, Rosner D. Two Lives, Three Legs, One Journey: A Retrospective Appreciation of Zena Stein and Mervyn Susser, International Journal of Epidemiology, 31: 49-53. (Books and Publications: Peer Reviewed Article) 2002
Oppenheimer G. Paradigm Lost: Race, Ethnicity, and the Search for a New Population Taxonomy, American Journal of Public Health, 91: 1049-1055. (Books and Publications: Peer Reviewed Article) 2001
Bayer R, Oppenheimer, G. AIDS Doctors: Voices From the Epidemic (Oxford University Press) Paperback edition, 2002. (Books and Publications: Book) 2000
Fairchild A, Oppenheimer G. Public Health Nihilism versus Pragmatism: History, Politics and the Control of Tuberculosis, American Journal of Public Health, 88: 1105-1117. (Books and Publications: Peer Reviewed Article) 1998
Bayer R., Oppenheimer G. Confronting Drug Policy: Illicit Drugs in a Free Society (NY: Cambridge University Press). (Books and Publications: Edited Book) 1993
Awards, Honors and Fellowships:
National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship (Grants and Fellowships) 2007
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