| Allan Rosenfield, MD, is Dean and Joseph R. DeLamar Professor of Public Health
Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University.
Dr. Allan Rosenfield has written extensively on domestic and international issues in the fields of
population, women's reproductive health, obstetrics and gynecology, human rights and health policy.
He is the chairman of the NY State Department of Health AIDS Advisory Council, chair of AmfAR's Public
Policy Committee and on the boards of the Kaiser Family Foundation and the Packard Foundation. He is
also co-principal investigator for the Mailman School's $50 million Gates Foundation grant to prevent
maternal death and disability in Africa, Asia and Latin America, and leads the Mailman School's MTCT-Plus
initiative, a multi-foundation-funded $100 million effort to treat HIV-infected women and children in Africa,
Asia, and Latin America. Since September 11, Dr. Rosenfield has spoken widely on issues relating to
bioterrorism and infectious disease, s well s the country's public health infrastructure.
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At the beginning of his medical career, Dr. Rosenfield spent a year as an instructor in the department of
Obstetrics and Gynecology at the University of Lagos Teaching Hospital in Nigeria. He then joined the
Population Council, a private international organization. For six years, he served the Kingdom of Thailand
as Medical Advisor for Family Planning and Maternal and Child Health to the Ministry of Public Health,
and as the Thailand representative of the Population Council. He assisted the Thai authorities in establishing
their National Family Planning Program.
In 1975, following two years with the Population Council in New York, Rosenfield was recruited to Columbia
University as Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology and of Public Health, where he established the world-renowned
Center for Population and Family Health. In 1986, he was named dean and Joseph R. DeLamar Professor of Public Health.
Dr. Rosenfield received his BA from Harvard College and his MD from Columbia University's College of Physicians and
Surgeons. He and his wife Clare have two children and one grandchild.
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