| Ronald Bayer, Ph.D., is a Professor at the Center for the History and Ethics of
Public Health, Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University, where he has taught for 14 years.
Prior to coming to Columbia he was at the Hastings Center, a research institute devoted to the study of
ethical issues in medicine and the life sciences. Bayer's research has examined ethical and policy issues
in public health, focusing especially on AIDS, tuberculosis, illicit drugs, and tobacco.
His articles on AIDS have appeared in the New England Journal of Medicine, the Journal of the American
Medical Association, The Lancet, the American Journal of Public Health, and The Milbank Quarterly.
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His books include Private Acts, Social Consequences: AIDS and the Politics of Public Health (1989);
AIDS in the Industrialized Democracies: Passions, Politics and Policies (1991, edited with David Kirp);
Confronting Drug Policy: Illicit Drugs in a Free Society (1993, edited with Gerald Oppenheimer);
and Blood Feuds: Blood, AIDS and the Politics of Medical Disaster (1999, edited with Eric Feldman);
and AIDS Doctors: Voices from the Epidemic, written with Gerald Oppenheimer, published in July, 2000.
In 1995 Bayer's work was recognized by the National Institute of Mental Health when he was awarded a
5 year Senior Scientist Award. In 2002 he was elected to the Institute of Medicine.
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