Constance A. Nathanson, PhD, Mailman School of Public Health,
Elected Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science
December 12, 2006 -- Constance A. Nathanson, PhD, professor of clinical Sociomedical Sciences at the Mailman School of Public Health, has been elected a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), the world’s largest general scientific society. Dr. Nathanson was cited for her prize-winning research on adolescent and adult women’s reproductive health; gender, socioeconomic status, and health; and the politics of public health.
Dr. Nathanson has written widely on reproductive and sexual health services in the U.S., including the article, “Illness and the Feminine Role: A Theoretical Review,” which appeared in Social Science and Medicine in 1975. She continued to pursue this line of research in subsequent papers published in Social Science and Medicine, the International Journal of Epidemiology, and the Annual Review of Sociology. A more recent publication, Dangerous Passage: The Social Control of Sexuality in Women’s Adolescence, received the Eliot Freidson Award for Outstanding Books in Medical Sociology from the Medical Sociology section of the American Sociological Association. Her latest book, Disease Prevention as Social Change: The State, Society, and Public Health in the U.S., Canada, Britain and France, to be published in March 2007, and earlier articles from this work, highlight the politics of public health, and the importance of social movements in shaping public health responses.
As a faculty member in the Department of Sociomedical Sciences at the Mailman School, Dr. Nathanson currently serves as director of the nation’s first multidisciplinary doctoral training program in gender, sexuality, and health, a unique undertaking which prepares students for research and teaching careers focused on the reproductive and sexual health of citizens in the U.S. and abroad.
“Connie Nathanson’s selection as a Fellow of the AAAS exemplifies the outstanding research, teaching, and service that she has contributed to the field of medical sociology and public health policy,” said Richard Parker, PhD, chair of the Mailman School of Public Health’s Department of Sociomedical Sciences. “This is a wonderful acknowledgement of Connie’s innovative work in the field, and we are delighted that she has been honored in this way,” said Allan Rosenfield, MD, dean of the Mailman School of Public Health.
About the Mailman School of Public Health
The only accredited school of public health in New York City, and among the first in the nation, Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health provides instruction and research opportunities to more than 950 graduate students in pursuit of masters and doctoral degrees. Its students and more than 300 multi-disciplinary faculty engage in research and service in the city, nation, and around the world, concentrating on biostatistics, environmental health sciences, epidemiology, health policy and management, population and family health, and sociomedical sciences. www.mailman.hs.columbia.edu
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