Keith A. Wailoo is an American historian. He is currently the Henry Putnam University Professor of History and Public Affairs and Chair of the Department of History at

Princeton University Princeton University is a private university, private research university in Princeton, New Jersey. Founded in 1746 in Elizabeth, New Jersey, Elizabeth as the College of New Jersey, Princeton is the List of Colonial Colleges, fourth-oldest ins ...

. His research lies at the intersection of history and health policy, often focusing on the politics of healthcare, the development of drug policy, and the social implications of health policy. He was elected as a member of the

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in 2021.

Education

Wailoo received a

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in the history and sociology of science from the

University of Pennsylvania The University of Pennsylvania (also known as Penn or UPenn) is a private research university in Philadelphia. It is the fourth-oldest institution of higher education in the United States and is ranked among the highest-regarded universitie ...

, and a bachelor's degree in

chemical engineering Chemical engineering is an engineering field which deals with the study of operation and design of chemical plants as well as methods of improving production. Chemical engineers develop economical commercial processes to convert raw materials int ...

from

Yale University Yale University is a private research university in New Haven, Connecticut. Established in 1701 as the Collegiate School, it is the third-oldest institution of higher education in the United States and among the most prestigious in the wo ...

. Prior to arriving at Princeton, he taught at the

University of North Carolina Chapel Hill A university () is an institution of higher (or tertiary) education and research which awards academic degrees in several academic disciplines. Universities typically offer both undergraduate and postgraduate programs. In the United States, t ...

Harvard University Harvard University is a private Ivy League research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Founded in 1636 as Harvard College and named for its first benefactor, the Puritan clergyman John Harvard, it is the oldest institution of higher le ...

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, and the

Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences The Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences (CASBS) is an interdisciplinary research lab at Stanford University that offers a residential postdoctoral fellowship program for scientists and scholars studying "the five core social a ...

. In 2021 he was awarded the

Dan David Prize The Dan David Prize is a major international award that recognizes and supports outstanding contributions to the study of history and other disciplines that shed light on the human past. It awards nine prizes of $300,000 each year to outstanding ...

.Dan David Prize 2021
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Publications

* Pushing Cool: Big Tobacco, Racial Marketing, and the Untold Story of the Menthol Cigarette (University of Chicago Press, 2021) * Pain: A Political History (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2015) * How Cancer Crossed the Color Line (Oxford University Press, 2011) * Katrina's Imprint: Race and Vulnerability in America (Rutgers University Press, 2010) * Three Shots at Prevention: The HPV Vaccine and the Politics of Medicine's Simple Solutions (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2010) * The Troubled Dream of Genetic Medicine: Ethnicity and Innovation in Tay–Sachs, Cystic Fibrosis, Sickle Cell Disease (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2006) * A Death Retold: Jesica Santillan, the Bungled Transplant, and Paradoxes of Medical Citizenship (University of North Carolina Press, 2006) * Dying in the City of the Blues: Sickle Cell Anemia and the Politics of Race and Health (University of North Carolina Press, 2001) * Drawing Blood: Technology and Disease Identity in Twentieth Century America (Johns Hopkins University Press, 1997)

References

External links

Personal website

History Department webpage

Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs webpage
Living people 21st-century American historians 21st-century American male writers Princeton University faculty Year of birth missing (living people) American male non-fiction writers Members of the National Academy of Medicine {{US-med-historian-stub