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Dr. Allan Rosenfield
Allan Rosenfield was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts. He received a Bachelor of Arts degree from Harvard College and his MD from Columbia University's College of Physicians and Surgeons. His internship and one year of general surgical residency was completed at Beth Israel Hospital in Boston, followed by two years of service in the U.S. Air Force (in South Korea and San Francisco). He then entered the obstetrics and gynecology residency program
at Harvard's Boston Lying-In/Free Hospital for Women program in Boston (now the Brigham and Women's Hospital). Following completion of training in 1966, Dr. Rosenfield spent one 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, serving for six years in Thailand as Medical Advisor for Family Planning and Maternal and Child Health to the Ministry of Public Health, and as representative of the Population Council.
In 1975, Dr. Rosenfield joined Columbia University as professor of Obstetrics-Gynecology and Public Health, founding director of the Center for Population and Family Health, and director of ambulatory care for the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology. From 1986 to May 1, 2008 he was Dean of Columbia's Mailman School of Public Health, DeLamar Professor of Public Health and Professor of Obstetrics & Gynecology. After stepping down as Dean, he remains at the Mailman School as a Professor. Prior to becoming dean, he served for two years as acting chairman of the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology.
He is a fellow of the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists and an elected member of the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences. He is a member of numerous scientific and professional organizations and has served on the boards and/or committees of a wide range of international, national, state and local health-related organizations. He is a member of the boards of the Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation and the David and Lucile Packard Foundation, and serves on advisory committees to other national foundations. He has served as president of the New York Obstetrical Society, chair of the Association of Schools of Public Health, chair of the Executive Board of the American Public Health Association, chair of the Scientific and Technical Advisory Committee of WHO's Human Reproduction Programme, and chair of the Boards of the Planned Parenthood Federation of America, EngenderHealth and the Guttmacher Institute, and, for 10 years, chair of the New York State Department of Health AIDS Advisory Council He currently is chair of amfAR's Program Board. In addition, Dr. Rosenfield was a founder of Physicians for Reproductive Choice and Health.
Dr. Rosenfield's research, teaching and advocacy are world renowned. As a result, he has received many honorary awards, including the Government of Thailand, the International Federation of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, the Jacobs Institute of Women's Health, the American Public Health Association (the Martha May Elliot and Carl Schultz Awards), Public Health Association of New York City, and Planned Parenthood of New York City. Most recently, Dr. Rosenfield received these awards: the New York Academy of Medicine's Stephen Smith Award for Lifetime Achievement in Public Health; Physicians for Reproductive Choice and Health's Kenneth J. Ryan, MD Physician Leadership Award; National Association of People with AIDS Award; Doctors of the World (USA) Health and Human Rights Leadership Award; American Legacy Foundation's first Legacy Leadership Award for Extraordinary Leadership in Public Health; the Coalition for School-Based Primary Care's inaugural Public Health Leadership Award; the reproductive health movement's highest award, Planned Parenthood Federation of America's Margaret Sanger Award; the Global Health Council Award for global women's health; the International Women's Health Coalition Award; the National Family Planning & Reproductive Health Association Allan Rosenfield Award; and the Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health Dean's Distinguished Service Award.
He has written extensively (with over 140 published articles) on domestic and international issues in the fields of population, women's reproductive health, maternal mortality, HIV/AIDS, human rights and health policy and developed major global initiatives on maternal mortality, reproductive health, women's health and HIV/AIDS.
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