2014 John P. McGovern Science and Society Award
David Rosner is the Ronald H. Lauterstein Professor of sociomedical sciences and professor of history at Columbia University. He is co-director of the Center for the History and Ethics of Public Health at Columbia's Mailman School of Public Health.
An elected member of the National Academy of Sciences' Institute of Medicine, he received his BA from CCNY, his MPH from the University of Massachusetts, and his PhD from Harvard in the History of Science. Until moving to Columbia in 1998, he was University Distinguished Professor of History at the City University of New York. In addition to numerous grants, he has been a Guggenheim Fellow, a recipient of a Robert Wood Johnson Investigator Award, a National Endowment for the Humanities Fellow, and a Josiah Macy Fellow.
He has been awarded the Distinguished Scholar's Prize from the City University, the Viseltear Prize for Outstanding Work in the History of Public Health from the APHA and the Distinguished Alumnus Award from the University of Massachusetts School Of Public Health. He has also been honored at the Awards Dinner of the New York Committee on Occupational Safety and Health and he and Gerald Markowitz have been awarded the Upton Sinclair Memorial Lectureship "For Outstanding Occupational Health, Safety, and Environmental Journalism by the American Industrial Hygiene Association."
He and Gerald Markowitz are co-authors on ten books including Deceit and Denial: The Deadly Politics of Industrial Pollution (University of California Press/Milbank, 2002; 2013) and Lead Wars: The Politics of Science and the Fate of America's Children (University of California Press/Milbank, 2013).