Amy Fairchild

Amy Lauren Fairchild
Alma mater	Columbia University University of Texas at Austin
Scientific career
Institutions	Ohio State University Texas A&M University Columbia University
Thesis	Science 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

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.

References

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. "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.