Ronald Bayer, Ph.D., is Professor at the Center
for the History and Ethics of Public Health in the
Department of Sociomedical Sciences at the Columbia
University Mailman School of Public Health, where
he has taught for 14 years. He has taken a leadership
role in the HIV Center's work on ethics since the
Center's beginnings and is now Co-Director of the
Ethics, Policy, and Human Rights Core. 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.
Dr. Bayer's research has examined ethical and
policy issues in public health, with a special focus
on AIDS, tuberculosis, illicit drugs, and tobacco.
His broader goal is to develop an ethics of public
health. He is an elected member of the IOM, serves
on its Board on Health Promotion and Disease Prevention,
and has served on IOM committees dealing with the
social impact of AIDS, tuberculosis elimination,
vaccine safety, smallpox vaccination, and the Ryan
White Care Act. 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. His books include Homosexuality and American
Psychiatry: The Politics of Diagnosis (1981), 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); AIDS Doctors: Voices from the
Epidemic, (2000, written with Gerald Oppenheimer
and Mortal Secrets: Truth and Lies in the Age of
AIDS (2003, written with Robert Klitzman) and Unfiltered:
Conflicts over Tobacco Policy and Public Health
(2004 Harvard University Press) (edited with Eric
Feldman).
EDUCATION
| Harpur College
(SUNY), Binghamton, NY |
B.A. |
1964 |
Political Science
|
| University
of Chicago,
Chicago, IL |
M.A. |
1967 |
Political Science
|
| University
of Chicago,
Chicago, IL |
Ph.D. |
1976 |
Political Science
|
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
| 1978-1988 |
Associate
for Policy Studies, The Hastings Center,
Briarcliff Manor, NY |
| 1988-1991 |
Associate
Professor, Columbia University School of
Public Health, New York, NY |
| 1988-1993 |
Senior Advisor,
HIV Center for Clinical and Behavioral Studies,
New York State Psychiatric Institute, New
York, NY |
| 1991-present |
Professor, Department of Sociomedical
Sciences, Columbia University Mailman
School of Public Health, New York, NY |
| 1993-1995 |
Principal
Investigator, Ethical, Policy and Legal
Core, HIV Center for Clinical and
Behavioral Studies, New York State
Psychiatric Institute, New York, NY |
| 2000-2004 |
Institute
of Medicine, Immunization Safety Review
Committee |
| 2002-2004 |
Committee on Epidemiological Data and
the Ryan White CARE Act |
| 2002-2005 |
Director, Ethics, Policy, and Human
Rights Core, HIV Center for Clinical
and Behavioral Studies, New York State
Psychiatric Institute, New York, NY |
| 2003-2005 |
Institute of Medicine, Smallpox
Vaccination Review |
| 2003-present |
Institute of Medicine, Board of
Population Health |
| 2005-present |
Co-Director, Ethics and Policy Core, HIV Center for Clinical
and Behavioral Studies, New York State
Psychiatric Institute, New York, NY |
HONORS
| 1989 |
Private
Acts, Social Consequences: AIDS and the
Politics of Public Health. New York
Times Notable Books of the Year,
Outstanding Books, American Library
Association: Choice, 1990 Britannica
Book of the Year |
| 1995-2000 |
National
Institute of Mental Health Senior
Scientist Award (K05) |
| 2001-2004 |
Member,
Institute of Medicine, Committee on
Epidemiological Data and the Ryan White
CARE Act |
| 2001-present |
Member,
Institute of Medicine, Board of Health
Promotion and Disease Prevention |
| 2002 |
AIDS
Doctors - A Choice Book of the Year |
| 2002 |
Institute
of Medicine, Elected Member |
PUBLICATIONS
Bayer, R. (1981).
Homosexuality and American psychiatry. The
politics of diagnosis. Basic Books (Reprinted
by Princeton University Press, 1987, paperback
edition).
Bayer, R. (1983). Gays and the stigma of
"Bad Blood." Hastings Center Report, 13, 5-7.
Bayer, R., Callahan, D., Fletcher, J.,
Hodgson, T., Jennings, B., Monsees, D.,
Sieverts, S., & Veatch, R. (1983). The care of
the terminally ill: Morality and economics. New
England Journal of Medicine, 309, 1490-1494.
Bayer, R., Levine, C., & Murray, T. (1984).
Guidelines for confidentiality in research on
AIDS. IRB: A review of human subjects research,
6, 1-7.
Bayer, R. (1985). AIDS and the gay
community: Between the promise and specter of
medicine. Social Research, 52, 581-606.
Levine, C., & Bayer, R. (1985). Screening
blood: Public health and medical uncertainty.
Hastings Center Report, Special Supplement,
AIDS: The emerging ethical dilemmas, 15, 8-11.
Bayer, R. (1986). AIDS, power and reasons.
Milbank Quarterly, 64 (suppl 1), 168-182.
Bayer, R., Levine, C., & Wolf, S. (1986).
HIV antibody screening: An ethical framework
for evaluating proposed programs. J Am Med
Assoc, 256, 1768-1774.
Bayer, R. (1988). AIDS and the ethics of
public health: Challenges posed by a maturing
epidemic. AIDS, 2 (Suppl 1), S217-S221.
Bayer, R. (1989). AIDS, privacy and
responsibility. Daedalus, 118, 79-99.
Bayer, R. (1989). Private acts, social
consequences: AIDS and the politics of public
health. Free Press.
Bayer, R., & Healton, C. (1989). Controlling
AIDS in Cuba: The logic of Quarantine. New
England Journal of Medicine, 320, 1022-1024.
Levine, C., & Bayer R. (1989). The ethics of
screening for early intervention in HIV
Disease. American Journal of Public Health, 79,
1661-1667.
Bayer, R. (1990). AIDS and the future of
reproductive freedom. Milbank Quarterly, 68,
179-204.
Bayer, R., Lumey, L.H., & Wan, L. (1990).
The American, British and Dutch responses to
unlinked anonymous HIV seroprevalence studies:
An international comparison. AIDS, 4, 283-290.
Bayer, R. (1991). Public health policy and
the AIDS epidemic: An end to HIV
exceptionalism? New England Journal of
Medicine, 324, 1500-1504.
Bayer, R. (1992). As the second decade of
AIDS begins: An international perspective on
the ethics of the epidemic. AIDS, 6, 527-532.
Bayer, R., & Toomey, K.E. (1992). HIV
prevention and the two faces of partner
notification. American Journal of Public
Health, 82, 598.
Kirp, D.L., & Bayer, R. (Eds.). (1992). AIDS
in the industrialized democracies: Passions,
politics and policies. New Brunswick, NJ:
Rutgers University Press.
Bayer, R., & Oppenheimer, G. (Eds.) (1993).
Confronting drug policy. New York, NY:
Cambridge University Press.
Bayer, R. (1993). The ethics of blinded HIV
surveillance testing. American Journal of
Public Health, 83, 496-497.
Bayer, R., Dubler, N.N., & Landesman, S.
(1993). The dual epidemics of tuberculosis and
AIDS: Ethical and policy issues in screening
and treatment. American Journal of Public
Health, 83, 649-654.
Bayer, R., & Fairchild-Carrino, A. (1993).
AIDS and the limits of control: Public health
orders, quarantine and recalcitrant behaviour.
American Journal of Public Health, 83,
1471-1476.
Bayer, R. (1994). AIDS prevention and
cultural sensitivity: Are they compatible?
American Journal of Public Health, 84, 895-898.
Bayer, R. (1994). Ethical challenges posed
by zidovudine treatment to reduce vertical
transmission of HIV (editorial). New England
Journal of Medicine, 331, 1223-1225.
Bayer, R., & Dupuis, L. (1994).
Tuberculosis, public health and civil
liberties. Annual Review of Public Health, 16,
307-326.
Bayer, R., Stryker, J., & Smith, M. (1995).
Testing for HIV infection at home: The policy
issues. New England Journal of Medicine, 332,
1296-1299.
Bayer, R., & Wilkinson, D. (1995). Directly
observed therapy for tuberculosis: A history of
an idea. Lancet, 345, 1545-1548.
Bayer, R. (1996). AIDS prevention: Sexual
ethics and responsibility. New England Journal
of Medicine, 334, 1540-1542.
Bayer, R. (1997). Science, politics and AIDS
prevention policy. Journal of Acquired Immune
Deficiency Syndrome, 14 (Suppl 2), 522-529.
Bayer, R. (1998). The debate over
maternal-fetal HIV transmission prevention
trials in Africa, Asia and the Caribbean:
Racist exploitation or exploitation of racism?
American Journal of Public Health, 88, 567-570.
Bayer, R., & Stryker, J. (1998). Ethical
challenges posed by clinical progress in AIDS.
American Journal of Public Health, 88,
1052-1058.
Bayer, R. (1999). Clinical progress and the
future of HIV exceptionalism. Archives of
Internal Medicine, 159, 1042-1048.
Fairchild, A., & Bayer, R. (1999). Uses and
abuses of Tuskegee. Science, 24, 910-913.
Feldman, E., & Bayer, R. (Eds.). (1999).
Blood feuds: AIDS, blood, and the politics of a
medical disaster. New York, NY: Oxford
University Press.
Bayer, R. (2000). Ethical challenges of HIV
vaccine trials in less developed nations:
Conflict and consensus in the international
arena. AIDS, 14, 1051-1058.
Bayer, R, & Fairchild, A. (2000).
Surveillance and privacy. Science, 290,
1898-1899.
Bayer, R., & Oppenheimer, G. (2000). AIDS
doctors: Voice from the epidemic. New York, NY:
Oxford University Press.
Bayer, R. (2002). Tobacco, commercial
speech, and libertarian values: The end of the
line for restrictions on advertising? American
Journal of Public Health, 92, 12-15.
Bayer, R., Fairchild, A., & Gostin, L.
(2003). Ethical challenges posed by severe
acute respiratory syndrome: Implications for
the control of severe infectious disease
threats. The Journal of the American Medical
Association, 290, 3229-3237.
Klitzman, R., & Bayer, R. (2003). Mortal
secrets: Truth and lies in the age of AIDS.
Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press.
Bayer, R., & Fairchild, A. (2004). The
Genesis of public health ethics, Bioethics, 18,
473-492.
Fairchild, A., & R. Bayer. (2004). Ethics
and the conduct of public health surveillance.
Science, 303, 631-632.
Feldman, E., & Bayer, R. (2004). Unfiltered:
Conflicts over tobacco policy and public
health. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University
Press.
Colgrove, J., & Bayer, R. (2005). Could it
happen here? Vaccine risk controversies and the
specter of derailment. Health Affairs, 24,
729-739.
Colgrove, J., & Bayer, R. (2005). Manifold
restraints: liberty, public health, and the
legacy of Jacobson v. Massachusetts. American
Journal of Public Health, 95, 571-576.
Bayer, R., Gostin, L., Jennings, B., &
Steinbock, B. (Eds.). (2006). Public health
ethics. New York, NY: Oxford University Press.
Bayer, R., & Farichild, A.L. (2006).
Changing the paradigm for HIV testing - the end
of exceptionalism. New England Journal of
Medicine, 355, 647-649.
Bayer, R., & Stuber, J. (2006). Tobacco
control, stigma, and public health: Rethinking
the relations. American Journal of Public
Health, 96, 47-50.
Fairchild, A., Bayer, R., Colgrove, J., &
Wolfe, D. (2007). The searching eyes of
government: The promise and specter of public
health surveillance. Berkeley, CA: University
of California Press.
Bayer, R., & Moser-Jones, M. (in press).
Paternalism and its discontents: Motorcycle
helmet laws, libertarian values, and public
health. American Journal of Public Health.
Oppenheimer, G. & Bayer, R. (in press).
Shattered dreams?: An oral history of the AIDS
epidemic in South Africa. New York: Oxford
University Press. |
