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Vanessa Northington Gamble
University Professor of Medical Humanities and Professor of History
| 2130 H St. NW #709G |
Phone: (202) 994-0978 |
| Washington, D.C. 20052 |
Email: vngamble@gwu.edu |
Vanessa Northington Gamble, a physician and medical historian,
chaired the Tuskegee Syphilis Study Legacy Committee in 1997 that
secured a presidential apology for the treatment of Africa American
patients. Before coming to GW, she taught at Harvard University, the
University of Massachusetts, Hampshire College, the University of
Wisconsin, and Johns Hopkins University. Appointed head of the
Association of American Medical Colleges' (AAMC) Division of
Community and Minority Programs in 1999, Professor Gamble has served
as consultant or committee member on a range of projects run by
national medical organizations, including the Institute of Medicine,
the National Institutes of Health, the Centers for Disease Control
and Prevention (CDC), and the American Foundation for AIDS
Research.
Selected Publications
"U.S. Policy on Health Inequities: The Interplay of Politics and Research." Journal of Health Politics Policy and Law 31 (2006): 93-126. [With Deborah Stone.]
"Subcutaneous scars." Health Affairs 19, no. 1 (January/February 2000): 164-169.
"Under the shadow of Tuskegee: African Americans and health care." American Journal of Public Health 87, no. 11 (1997): 1773-1778.
Making a Place for Ourselves: The Black Hospital Movement, 1920-1945. New York: Oxford University Press, 1993.
Courses Taught
Hist 771: Epidemics in American History
Education
M.D., University of Pennsylvania, 1983.
Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania, 1987.
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