Primary Teaching Areas

Epidemiology; History of public health and medicine

Selected Publications: (Since 2000)

• Oppenheimer, G. and Bayer, R. Shattered Dreams?:  An Oral History of the South African AIDS Epidemic. (New York: Oxford University Press, 2007).
• Bayer, R. and Oppenheimer, G. AIDS Doctors: Voices From the Epidemic. Paperback edition (New York: Oxford University Press, 2002).
• Bayer, R. and Oppenheimer, G. AIDS Doctors: Voices From the Epidemic. (New York: Oxford University Press, 2000).
• Bayer, R. and Oppenheimer, G. (eds.) Confronting Drug Policy: Illicit Drugs in a Free  Society (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1993).
• Bayer, R. and Oppenheimer, G. Roll-out and Rationing: Providing Anti-Retroviral Therapy in South Africa. Cynthia Pope, Renee White, Robert Marlow, eds. Routledge (in press).
• Oppenheimer G.and Susser, E. "Invited Commentary: The context and challenge of von
• Pettenkofer's contributions to epidemiology." American Journal of pidemiology. 2007; 166:1239-1241.
• Bayer, R. and Oppenheimer, G. "Scale Ups, Scarcity and Selection: The Historical Experience of Doctors in South Africa." AIDS. 2007; 21(supplement 5):543-547.
• Bayer, R. and Oppenheimer, G. The AIDS Pioneers—Reflections on the Epidemic's Early Years. New England Journal of Medicine. 2006;355:2273-2275.
• Oppenheimer, G. and Bayer, R. "Choosing Between Life and Death: Rationing of Health Care during the AIDS Epidemic in South Africa." in L'Épidémie du SIDA en Afrique subsaharienne. Regards historiens. Becker, Denis, eds, Paris: Karthala, 2006.
• Online edition in English. October 2006: 129-141 at the following URL: http://www.refer.sn/rds/article.php3?id_article=245. )
• Oppenheimer, G. Profiling Risk: The Emergence of Coronary Heart Disease Epidemiology in the U.S. 1947-1970. International Journal of Epidemiology 2006:35:515-519.
• Oppenheimer, G. Becoming the Framingham Study, 1947-1950. American Journal of Public Health 2005; 95:602-610.
• Oppenheimer, G., Bayer, R. and Colgrove, J. Public Health and Human Rights: Old Wine in New Bottles? Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics 2002; 30:522-532.
• Oppenheimer, G. and Rosner, D. Two Lives, Three Legs, One Journey: A Retrospective Appreciation of Zena Stein and Mervyn Susser. International Journal of Epidemiology 2002; 31: 49-53.
• Oppenheimer, G. Paradigm Lost: Race, Ethnicity and the Search for a New Population Taxonomy. American Journal of Public Health 2001; 91: 1049-1055.
• Oppenheimer, G. and Bayer, R. Wrestling with An Epidemic: An Oral History of AIDS Physicians 2000; www.fathom.com

Education

• B.A. City College of New York, 1964
  Cum Laude, Phi Beta Kappa
• M.A. University of Chicago, 1966
• Ph.D. University of Chicago, 1976 (History)
• M.P.H. Columbia University, 1979 (Epidemiology)
• 1977 - 1980 NIH and NIMH Post-doctoral Fellow in Epidemiology, Columbia University