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Amy Fairchild

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Amy Lauren Fairchild
Alma materColumbia University
University of Texas at Austin
Scientific career
InstitutionsOhio State University
Texas A&M University
Columbia University
ThesisScience at the borders : Immigrant medical inspection and defense of the Nation, 1891-1930 (1997)

Amy Lauren Fairchild is an American historian who is a professor at Syracuse University. She is co-director of the World Health Organization Collaborating Center for Bioethics.

Early life and education

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Fairchild was an undergraduate student at the University of Texas at Austin.[1] She graduated in 1990, before moving to Columbia University to complete a master's degree in public health.[citation needed] She remained at Columbia for her graduate studies, where she investigates the health of migrants.[2]

Research and career

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Fairchild works on public health ethics and policy. After completing her doctoral degree, she was appointed to the faculty of Columbia University.[3] She studied the social forces that impact health inspection of migrants and disease surveillance and privacy.[3] In particular, she was interested in the interplay between surveillance and public health policy.[4] She was responsible for delivering the Department of Public Health history and policy course.[5] She looked at the impacts of fear-based public health campaigns, such as Michael Bloomberg's efforts on tobacco use, obesity and HIV.[6] She argued that banning e-cigarette sales and vaping would have negative impacts on people's health.[7][8]

After twenty years at Columbia, Fairchild returned to Texas A&M University, where she served as Associate Dean and Vice President for Faculty Affairs. She joined Ohio State University as a professor in the College of Public Health in 2019.[9] Throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, Fairchild was responsible for monitoring health on campus and providing public health advice to the people of Ohio.[10][11][12] She called for a national mask mandate to prevent the spread of coronavirus disease.[13]

Selected publications

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  • Amy Fairchild; Ronald Bayer; James Colgrove (18 December 2013). "The renormalization of smoking? E-cigarettes and the tobacco "endgame"". The New England Journal of Medicine. 370 (4): 293–295. doi:10.1056/NEJMP1313940. ISSN 0028-4793. PMID 24350902. Wikidata Q54422084.
  • Ronald Bayer; Amy L Fairchild (1 November 2004). "The genesis of public health ethics". Bioethics. 18 (6): 473–492. doi:10.1111/J.1467-8519.2004.00412.X. ISSN 0269-9702. PMID 15580720. Wikidata Q53317309.
  • Lawrence O Gostin; Ronald Bayer; Amy L Fairchild (1 December 2003). "Ethical and legal challenges posed by severe acute respiratory syndrome: implications for the control of severe infectious disease threats". JAMA. 290 (24): 3229–3237. doi:10.1001/JAMA.290.24.3229. ISSN 0098-7484. PMID 14693876. Wikidata Q40541337.

Books

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References

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  1. ^ Amy Lauren Fairchild. OCLC 5567327956.
  2. ^ Fairchild, Amy Lauren (1997). Science at the borders: Immigrant medical inspection and defense of the Nation, 1891-1930 (Thesis). OCLC 38564836.
  3. ^ a b "Amy L. Fairchild". history.osu.edu. Retrieved 2021-03-18.
  4. ^ "Amy Fairchild | Robert Wood Johnson Foundation - Investigator Awards in Health Policy Research". investigatorawards.org. Retrieved 2021-03-18.
  5. ^ "Amy L. FAIRCHILD, PhD - Europubhealth - European Public Health Master". www.europubhealth.org. Retrieved 2021-03-18.
  6. ^ Fairchild, Amy L.; Bayer, Ronald; Colgrove, James (2015). "Risky Business: New York City's Experience With Fear-Based Public Health Campaigns". Health Affairs. 34 (5): 844–851. doi:10.1377/hlthaff.2014.1236. ISSN 0278-2715. PMID 25941287.
  7. ^ "Knee-jerk vaping bans will fail public health, experts argue". Knee-jerk vaping bans will fail public health, experts argue. Retrieved 2021-03-18.
  8. ^ "Anti-Vape Laws Could Do More Harm Than Good". Wired. ISSN 1059-1028. Retrieved 2021-03-18.
  9. ^ "Amy Fairchild to lead Ohio State's College of Public Health". Amy Fairchild to lead Ohio State’s College of Public Health. Retrieved 2021-03-18.
  10. ^ "Column: Treat COVID-19 as if it's already in your home". The Columbus Dispatch. Retrieved 2021-03-18.
  11. ^ "Ohio State's first pandemic: Influenza". The Lantern. 2020-05-27. Retrieved 2021-03-18.
  12. ^ Fairchild, Amy Lauren (2020-08-18). "Science Can't Save Us From Coronavirus Panic". Foreign Affairs: America and the World. ISSN 0015-7120. Retrieved 2021-03-18.
  13. ^ "A national mandatory mask order would prevent 'walking weapons'". STAT. 2020-07-15. Retrieved 2021-03-18.