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

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

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

• 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

• Fairchild, Amy L. (2007). Searching eyes : privacy, the state, and disease surveillance in America. Ronald Bayer, James Keith Colgrove, Daniel Wolfe. Berkeley: University of California Press. ISBN  978-0-520-94121-2. OCLC  182574130.
• Fairchild, Amy L. (2003). Science at the borders : immigrant medical inspection and the shaping of the modern industrial labor force. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. ISBN  0-8018-7080-1. OCLC  49699445.

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