PhD, 1968, History of Science, Princeton University

MA, 1965, Princeton University

BS, 1963, City College of New York

Theodore Brown, PhD

Professor,
Department of History

Professor,
Division of Health Services Research,
Community & Preventive Medicine

Contact Information:

University of Rochester
Community & Preventive Medicine
601 Elmwood Avenue, Box 644
Rochester, NY 14642

Office: 4-W309
Phone: (585) 275-1545

Email: theodore_brown@urmc.rochester.edu

Research:

History of public health and health policy. Intellectual, institutional, and political history of medicine.

My research falls into several areas: the history of American psychiatry and psychosomatic medicine; the influence of organized philanthropy on medical research, health policy, and medical education; the American health left and its role in both domestic and international health policy; the development and influence of the field of health services research; the history of American and global public health. I teach the history of medicine, public health, and health policy in undergraduate lecture and seminar courses and in a graduate seminar.

• “Jonathan Mann: Founder of the Health and Human Rights Movement,” (with Daniel Tarantola, Sofia Gruskin and Elizabeth Fee), American Journal of Public Health, 96 (2006): 1940-1943
• “Andrija Stampar: Charismatic Leader of Social Medicine and International Health,” (with Elizabeth Fee), American  Journal of Public Health, 96 (2006): 1382-1385
• “The World Health Organization and the Transition from ‘International’ to ‘Global’ Public Health,” (with Marcos Cueto and Elizabeth Fee), American Journal of Public Health, 96 (2006): 62-72
• “The Public Health Act of 1848,” (with Elizabeth Fee), Bulletin of the World Health Organization, 83 (2005): 866-872
• “Using Medical History to Shape a Profession: The Ideals of William Osler and Henry E. Sigerist” [with Elizabeth Fee], in Locating Medical History: The Stories and their Meanings, eds. Frank Huisman and John Harley Warner (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2004), 139-164
• “A Role for Public Health History,” (with Elizabeth Fee), American Journal of Public Health, (2004): 1851-1853
• “George Engel and Rochester's Biopsychosocial Tradition: Historical and Developmental Perspectives,” in The Biopsychosocial Approach: Past, Present, Future, eds. Richard Frankel, Timothy Quill, Susan McDaniel (Rochester: University of Rochester Press, 2003), 199-219
• “Struggles for National Health Reform in the United States” [with Anne-Emanuelle Birn, Elizabeth Fee and Walter Lear], American Journal of Public Health, 93 (2003), 86-91
• “The Unfulfilled Promise of Public Health: Deja vu All Over Again” [with Elizabeth Fee], Health Affairs, 21, no. 6 (2002), 31-43
• “Preemptive Biopreparedness: Can We Learn Anything from History?” [with Elizabeth Fee], American Journal of Public Health, 91(2001), 721-726
• "Health Services Research: A Historical Perspective," script for video history (48 minutes), produced by the National Library of Medicine (Bethesda, MD), released June 2000