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Faculty Member

Anne-​Emanuelle Birn BA, MA, Sc.D.

Email Address(es)
ae.birn(at)utoronto.ca
Office Phone
(416) 946-5792
Office Address
Dalla Lana School of Public Health 155 College St, Room 558 Toronto, ON M5T 3M7
Website(s)
UTSC website
Curriculum Vitae
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Division(s)/Institute(s)
Centre for Global Health
Social & Behavioural Health Sciences Division
Position
Professor
SGS Status
Full Member
Appointment Status
Non budgtry Crss
Currently Accepting Doctoral Students?
No

Research Interests

  • history of public health in Latin America (Mexico, Uruguay)
  • global/international health policy and politics, past and present
  • historical demography – infant mortality
  • comparative health policy (Latin America)
  • health and medicine in Cold War Latin America
  • extractive industries and health
  • primary health care, social justice, and international (health) politics in the 1980s and 1990s

Education & Training History

EDUCATION:

1993 Johns Hopkins School of Hygiene and Public Health, Baltimore, MD

Sc.D. in Health Policy/ History of Public Health

Dissertation: “Local Health and Foreign Wealth: The Rockefeller Foundation’s Public Health Programs in Mexico, 1924-1951” (Supervisor: Elizabeth Fee)

Elected member of Delta Omega Public Health Honor Society

1988 University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand

M.A. in History, First Class Honours

1986 Harvard University, Cambridge, MA

B.A. in History and Science, Magna Cum Laude

Professional Appointments

  • July 2010- currently University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada,  Professor
  • 2003-2013 Canada Research Chair in International Health
  • May 2012 -December 2013 Milano Graduate School of International Affairs, Management, and Urban Policy New School for Public Engagement, New York, NY Visiting Scholar
  • January-June 2010 Sabbatical volunteer in Department of Ethics, Equity, Trade, and Human Rights World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland
  • July 2003- June 2010 University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada Associate Professor (with tenure) and Canada Research Chair in International Health
  • January-June 2008 Fulbright Scholar, Paris, France Centre de Recherche Médicale et Sanitaire (INSERM) and Institut National d’Etudes Démographiques (INED)
  • July 2001-June 2003 Milano Graduate School of Management and Urban Policy, New School, New York, NY Associate Professor of Health Policy and History (Tenure granted June 2001) Eugene Lang College, New School, New York, NY Chair of Urban Studies Concentration
  • March – August 1999; June- August 2000; January-March 2001 Visiting Professor, Programa de Población, Facultad de Ciencias Sociales, Universidad de la República, Montevideo, Uruguay
  • July 1994 – June 2001 Milano Graduate School, New School for Social Research, New York, NY Assistant Professor of Health Policy and History Head, Comparative International Health Policy Track, Health Policy Research Center
  • January – December 1995 Pan American Health Organization, Washington, DC Consultant to project on the history of public health in Latin America
  • January 1994 – June 1996 Johns Hopkins School of Hygiene and Public Health, Baltimore, MD Faculty Associate, taught 2 courses on “Historical Issues in Health Care”
  • January – Dec. 1994 Pan American Health Organization, Washington, DC Resident in International Health and director of project on history of public health in Latin America and the Caribbean
  • October 1991 – March 1992 AIDS Program, Catalunya Health Department, Barcelona, Spain Director of policy and program for school placement of HIV-positive children
  • May 1989 – December 1990 Baltimore City Health Department, Division of School and Adolescent Health, USA Policy analyst and researcher on child and teen health
  • February – June 1990 Milbank Memorial Fund, New York, NY Research associate for project on the history of chronic disease policy

Concurrent appointments:

  • Department of Global Development Studies (formerly Centre for Critical Development Studies), UTSC
  • Status Only Professor and Associate Member, Graduate Department of Nursing Science, (2009-2013) Lawrence S. Bloomberg Faculty of Nursing
  • Graduate Collaborative Program in Women and Gender Studies (Cross-listed faculty)
  • Latin American Studies (Affiliated faculty member)
  • Mentor, Collaborative Graduate Programme in Women’s Health
  • Fellow, Global Health Promotion Consortium
  • Senior Fellow, Massey College

Primary Graduate Teaching Responsibilities

  • Pandemics/Pandemonium, Past and Present
  • History of Global and International Health
  • Master’s Collaborative Specialization in Development Policy and Power

Honours & Awards

  • 2023 recipient of the Arthur J. Viseltear Prize for Lifetime Achievement in Public Health History, awarded by the Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University, and the Medical Care Section, American Public Health Association
  • 2021   Keynote address, Health Beats | Global Health Conference, Faculdade de Medicina da Universidade do Porto, Portugal
  • 2018-Named to List of Canadian Women in Global Health, http://www.csih.org/sites/default/files/canadian_women_in_global_health_list_2018_.pdf
  • 2018  – Plenary address, National Conference on “Health Inequities in India: Transformative Research for Action,” Achutha Menon Centre for Health Science Studies, Sree Chitra Tirunal Institute for Medical Sciences & Technology, Trivandrum, Kerala, India
  • Named to Independent Panel on Global Governance for Health (University of Oslo), 2017-2020
  • 2017 – Keynote address, Social Policies and the Welfare State in the Global South conference, Universität  Bremen, Germany
  • 2016 – Keynote Address, Shanghai University, funded by Arts and Humanities Research Council, the Wellcome Trust, and the Universities of Strathclyde and Shanghai
  • 2014 – Recognized among top 100 Women Leaders in Global Health: http://graduateinstitute.ch/files/live/sites/iheid/files/sites/globalhealth/ghp-new/news/2014/100%20Women%20in%20Global%20Health.pdf
  • 2012 – Stephen Stewart Gloyd Endowed Lecture, School of Public Health, University of Washington
  • 2012 – George Rosen Memorial Lecture, Beaumont Medical Club of Connecticut, Yale University, CT
  • 2008-13 (renewal) – Canada Research Chair (Tier II), funded by the Canadian Institutes of Health Research
  • 2011 – Domna Stanton endowed lectureship, Wellesley College, Wellesley, MA
  • 2011 – Wilbur G. Downs endowed lectureship, Yale University School of Public Health, New Haven, CT
  • 2009 – Keynote address at 56th conference of Japanese Society of Child Health, Osaka
  • 2009 – visiting fellow, Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies
  • 2007-8 – Fulbright Scholarship to France (Multidisciplinary Research Award)
  • 2007 – Chair’s Teaching Citation, University of Toronto-Scarborough
  • 2003-8 Canada Research Chair (Tier II), funded by the Canadian Institutes of Health Research

Current Research Projects and Grants

  • 2022-25    Lead PI, “Social mobilization as policymaking lever? A trans-Atlantic COVID-19 dialogue on community action and decentralized governance,” Trans-Atlantic Platform Recovery, Renewal, and Resilience Award (Canada, Québec, Brazil, Peru, Germany), SSHRC ($200,000); FAPESP; BMBF/DLR-PT; IDRC; FRQSC(~1M total).
  • 2020-23    Collaborator, “Discovering University Worlds,” SSHRC Insight Grant ($75,000) Tania Li, PI
  • 2023-4 Birn, Anne-Emanuelle and Hochman, Gilberto. A Short History of International and Global Health: An Americas Perspective (advance contract, Oxford University Press)
  • Social justice and international (health) politics in the 1980s and 1990s
  • Book manuscript on the emergence of the child health rights movement from the perspective of Uruguay
  • 2013-20 Nominated PI, “Health Diplomacy at a Crossroads: Social Justice-Oriented South-South Cooperation in a Time of Global Change,” CIHR Operating Grant
  • 2023-4 PI, “A Short History of Global/International Health in the Americas: Canadian Perspectives,” AMS Healthcare Project Grant
  • 2018-24  Co-investigator, “Evaluation of the role and actions of Canadian grantmaking foundations in response to social inequalities and environmental challenges,” SSHRC Partnership Grant

BOOKS:

EDITED JOURNAL VOLUMES:

  • Lin, Yi-Tang and Birn, Anne-Emanuelle, eds. Monde(s). Special issue,“Santé globale: des acteurs négligés,” 20(2), November 2021. https://www.cairn.info/revue-mondes-2021-2.htm
  • Hochman, Gilberto, and Birn, Anne-Emanuelle, eds. Special issue, 2021. “Pandemias na América Latina e no Caribe em Perspectiva Histórica e Global,” Topoi. Revista de História.https://revistatopoi.org/site/en/current-issue/
  • Einstein, Gillian and Birn, Anne-Emanuelle, eds. Women’s Health & Urban Life, Special Graduate Student Issue on “Gender/Sex and Health: Contextualizing the Body.” May 2013 (XII): Special Issue 1.
  • Birn, Anne-Emanuelle and Hochman, Gilberto, eds. Canadian Bulletin of Medical History, special issue on “Latin America and International Health,” 2008, 25 (1). Available online at: http://www.cbmh.ca/index.php/index/index
  • Birn, Anne-Emanuelle, ed. Journal of Public Health Policy, special section on “Health & Human Rights: Critical Historical Perspectives from the Cold War to the New World Order,” 2008, 29 (1): 29-71. Available online at: http://www.palgrave-journals.com/jphp/journal/v29/n1/index.html#Special-Section:-Health-and-Human-Rights:-Critical-Historical-Perspectives-from-the-Cold-War-to-the-New-World-Order
  • Birn, Anne-Emanuelle, ed. Canadian Journal of Public Health, special insert on “Canada, Latin America, and International Health,” 2006, 97 (6). Available online at: http://journal.cpha.ca/index.php/cjph/issue/view/202
  • Birn, Anne-Emanuelle and Hochman, Gilberto, eds. História, Ciências, Saúde – Manguinhos, special issue on “History of International Health: Latin American Perspectives” 2006, 13(3). Available online at: www.scielo.br
  • Birn, Anne-Emanuelle and Fein, Oliver, eds. American Journal of Public Health, special issue on “Health Care Reform,” 2003, 93 (1). Available online at: http://www.ajph.org/search.dtl
  • Birn, Anne-Emanuelle and Fergerson, Gerard, eds. Radical History Review, special issue on “Health Politics/Health Workers.” 2001, 80 (Spring). Available online at: http://rhr.dukejournals.org/content/vol2001/issue80/

Selected Articles in Peer-Reviewed Journals (since 2008)

  • Birn, Anne-Emanuelle, Ramya Kumar, Erika Arteaga-Cruz, Baone Twala, & Mbali Baduza, “Imagining alternative paths for WHO 75 years in,” The Lancet, Vol 401 April 8, 2023, pp. 1149-51. https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(23)00677-3/fulltext Spanish-language version: https://www.thelancet.com/cms/10.1016/S0140-6736(23)00677-3/attachment/22aa01eb-8de3-4b67-8f1a-86a78773ba3e/mmc1.pdf
  • Birn, Anne-Emanuelle, Aguilera, MJ, and Khare, N., & Schrecker, Ted, “Canada Kills, Inc.: A critical political economy of health analysis of Canadian mining in Latin America and the Caribbean,” Canadian Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Studies / Revue canadienne des études latino-américaines et caraïbes, 2023. https://doi.org/10.1080/08263663.2023.2193045
  • Birn, Anne-Emanuelle, et. al., “People’s Health Movement-Canada interviews activists in Ecuador struggling against Canadian mining,” Revue Caminando vol. 37, no. 1 (mai 2023).
  • Wigle, J.M., Paul, S., Birn, A.E., Gladstone, B., Kalolo, M., Banda, L., & Braitstein, P. “Participation of Girls and Young Women in Sexual and Reproductive Health Decision-Making in Malawi: Local Realities versus Global Rhetoric,” PLoS Global Public Health 2022, 2(11): e0001297. https://journals.plos.org/globalpublichealth/article?id=10.1371/journal.pgph.0001297
  • Ramya Kumar, Anne-Emanuelle Birn, Rupaleem Bhuyan, & Josephine Wong, “Universal health coverage and public-private arrangements within Sri Lanka’s mixed health system: Perspectives from women seeking healthcare,” Social Science and Medicine, Volume 296, March 2022, 114777. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0277953622000806?dgcid=coauthor
  • AE Birn, “De Montevideo au Monde: l’Institut International Américain de Protection de l’Enfance et la circulation des politiques uruguayennes de l’enfance,” Monde(s): Histoire, espaces, relations 2021, 20 (2): 67-97.  https://www.cairn.info/revue-mondes-2021-2.htm
  •  “What’s technology got to do with it? Power, politics, and health equity beyond technological triumphalism,” Global Policy, 2021, 12(S6): 75-79.
  •  “Santé globale: des acteurs négligés, des histoires redécouvertes,” Monde(s): Histoire, espaces, relations 2021, 20 (2): 9-27. https://www.cairn.info/revue-mondes-2021-2.htm
  • Birn, Anne-Emanuelle, “Perspectivizing pandemics: (How) do epidemic histories crisscross contexts?” Journal of Global History, 15(3) November 2020: 1-14. https://doi.org/10.1017/S1740022820000327
  • Birn, Anne-Emanuelle. “How to have narrative-flipping history in a pandemic: Views of/from Latin America,” Centaurus: An International Journal of the History of Science and its Cultural Aspects. Spotlight Issue on Pandemics. 2020, 62 (2): 354-369. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/1600-0498.12310
  • Birn, Anne-Emanuelle and Nervi, Laura. “(Re-)Making a People’s WHO,” American Journal of Public Health, 110: 9 (September 2020): e1-e2. https://doi.org/10.2105/AJPH.2020.305806
  •  Wigle, J., Paul, S., Birn, A. E., Gladstone, B., & Braitstein, P. “Youth participation in sexual and reproductive health: Policy, practice, and progress in Malawi,” International Journal of Public Health. 2020 (April 9): 1-11. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00038-020-01357-8
  • Birn, Anne-Emanuelle and Nervi, Laura, “What Matters in Health (Care) Universes: Delusions, Dilutions, and Ways towards Universal Health Justice,” Globalization and Health 15 supplement (2019):1-12. doi:10.1186/s12992-019-0521-7. https://globalizationandhealth.biomedcentral.com/track/pdf/10.1186/s12992-019-0521-7
  • Birn, Anne-Emanuelle, Muntaner, Carles, Afzal, Zabia, and Aguilera, Mariajosé. “Is there a social justice variant of South–South health cooperation?: A scoping and critical literature review,” Global Health Action 2019, 12 (1): 1-20. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/16549716.2019.1621007?needAccess=true
  • Birn, Anne-Emanuelle, and Theodore M. Brown. “Elizabeth Fee (1946–2018),” American Journal of Public Health, 109:6 (June 2019): e1-e4. https://ajph.aphapublications.org/doi/full/10.2105/AJPH.2019.305065
  • Birn, Anne-Emanuelle, “Child health and child rights: Uruguay’s progeny,” The Lancet, 2019, 393:1092-3. https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(19)30508-2/fulltext
  • Birn, Anne-Emanuelle and Muntaner, Carles, “Latin American Social Medicine Across Borders: South-South Cooperation and the Making of Health Solidarity,” Global Public Health, online 2018, print version: 14, no. 6-7 (2019): 817-834. http://www.tandfonline.com/eprint/jp8F3GyD3TXmmTSDVybV/full   Also being reprinted in: Social Inequities and Contemporary Struggles for Collective Health in Latin America (Routledge, 2020).
  • Birn, Anne-Emanuelle and Krementsov, Nikolai, “‘Socialising’ Primary Care? The Soviet Union, WHO, and the 1978 Alma-Ata Conference,” BMJ Global Health online: 24 Oct 2018; published December 2018, vol 3, suppl. 3: 1-15. 3:e000992. doi:10.1136/bmjgh-2018-000992 https://gh.bmj.com/content/3/Suppl_3/e000992
  • Birn, Anne-Emanuelle, Shipton, Leah, and Schrecker, Ted, “Canadian mining and ill health in Latin America: A call to action,” Canadian Journal of Public Health, online 6 September 2018; print version Dec 2018: 109(5), 786-790 https://doi.org/10.17269/s41997-018-0113-y    https://rdcu.be/5Z7i
  • Birn, Anne-Emanuelle, “Back to Alma-Ata, From 1978 to 2018 and Beyond,” American Journal of Public Health, 2018, 108 (9): 1153-5. https://ajph.aphapublications.org/doi/10.2105/AJPH.2018.304625
  • Schrecker, Ted, Birn, Anne-Emanuelle, and Aguilera, Mariajosé, “How extractive industries affect health: Political economy underpinnings and pathways,” Health & Place, 2018, 52 (July): 135–147. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.healthplace.2018.05.005
  • Birn, Anne-Emanuelle. “WHOse health agenda? 70 years of struggle over WHO’s mandate,” The Lancet, 2018, 391: 1350-51. http://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(18)30734-7/fulltext
  • Reposted: https://saudeglobal.org/2018/04/06/whose-health-agenda-70-years-of-struggle-over-whos-mandate-by-anne-emanuelle-birn/
  • Birn, Anne-Emanuelle, “Little agenda-setters: Uruguay’s International Institute for the Protection of Childhood and rights approaches to child health, 1920s-1940s,” (in Chinese) Journal of Social History of Medicine and Health, 2017, 2(2): 3-38.
  • Birn, Anne-Emanuelle, Muntaner, Carles, and Afzal, Zabia, “South-South cooperation in health: Bringing in theory, politics, history, and social justice,” Cadernos de Saúde Pública/ Reports in Public Health, 2017, 33 (1) (suppl. 2): 1-16, e00194616. http://cadernos.ensp.fiocruz.br/csp/artigo/241/a-cooperao-sul-sul-em-sade-trazendo-perspectivas-tericas-polticas-histricas-e-de-justia-social
  • Birn, Anne-Emanuelle, Nervi, Laura, and Siqueira, Eduardo, “Neoliberalism Redux: The Global Health Policy Agenda and the Politics of Cooptation in Latin America and Beyond,” Development and Change, Forum 2016, Debate section, 47(4): 734-759. http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/dech.12247/abstract
  • Birn, Anne-Emanuelle and Hellander, Ida “Market-Driven Health Care Mess: The United States,” Cadernos de Saúde Pública/ Reports in Public Health, 32(3), e00014816. Epub 12 April 2016. https://dx.doi.org/10.1590/0102-311X00014816.
  • Birn, Anne-Emanuelle, Nervi, Laura, and Siqueira, Eduardo, “Neoliberalism Redux: The Global Health Policy Agenda and the Politics of Cooptation in Latin America and Beyond,” Development and Change, Forum 2016, Debate section, 47(4): 734-759.
  • Birn, Anne-Emanuelle and Nervi, Laura, “Political Roots of the Struggle for Health Justice in Latin America,” The Lancet 385:1174-5. March 28, 2015 (early online October 16, 2014) http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S0140-6736(14)61844-4. http://www.thelancet.com/pdfs/journals/lancet/PIIS0140-6736(14)61844-4.pdf     Translated into Spanish and published in Medicina Social 2014, 9(3): 251-255.
  • Birn, Anne-Emanuelle, “Philanthrocapitalism, Past and Present: The Rockefeller Foundation, the Gates Foundation, and the Setting(s) of the International/Global Health Agenda,” Hypothesis, 2014, 12 (1): 1-27, e6, doi:10.5779/hypothesis. v10i1.229.
  • Birn, Anne-Emanuelle, “Backstage: The relationship between the Rockefeller Foundation and the World Health Organization, Part I: 1940s-1960s,” Public Health (Royal Society for Public Health), 2014, 128(2): 129-140.
  • Jackson, Suzanne; Birn, Anne-Emanuelle; Fawcett, Stephen; Poland, Blake; and Schultz, Jerry, “Synergy for Health Equity: Integrating Health Promotion and Social Determinants of Health Approaches in/and beyond the Americas,” Pan American Journal of Public Health/ Rev Panam Salud Pública, 2013, 34(6):473–80.
  • Birn, Anne-Emanuelle and Fee, Elizabeth, “The Rockefeller Foundation: Setting the International Health Agenda,” The Lancet, May 11, 2013, 381:1618-1619.
  • Einstein, Gillian and Birn, Anne-Emanuelle, “Editors’ Introduction,” Women’s Health & Urban Life, Graduate Student Issue on “Gender/Sex and Health: Contextualizing the Body.” May 2013, 12(1): xii-xviii.
  • Birn, Anne-Emanuelle, “Remaking International Health: Refreshing Perspectives from Latin America,” Pan American Journal of Public Health, 2011, 30(2):106-10.
  • Birn, Anne-Emanuelle and Necochea, Raúl, “Footprints on the Future: Looking Forward to Latin American Medical History in the Twenty-First Century,” Hispanic American Historical Review, 2011, 91(3):503-527.
  • Birn, Anne-Emanuelle and Lexchin, Joel, “Beyond Patents: The GAVI Alliance, AMCs, and Improving Immunization Coverage through Public Sector Vaccine Production in the Global South,” Human Vaccines, 2011, 7(3): 291-2.
  • Birn, Anne-Emanuelle. “Small(pox) success?” Ciência & Saúde Coletiva, 2011, 16(2): 591-597.
  • Larson, Charles; Haddid, Slim; Birn, Anne-Emanuelle, et al., “Grand Challenges Canada: Inappropriate Emphasis and Missed Opportunities in Global Health Research?” Canadian Journal of Public Health, 2011, 102(2): 149-151.
  • Richardson, Emma and Birn, Anne-Emanuelle, “Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights in Latin America: An Analysis of Trends, Commitments and Achievements,” Reproductive Health Matters, 2011, 19 (38): 183–196.
  • Birn, Anne-Emanuelle; Cabella, Wanda; and Pollero, Raquel, “The Infant Mortality Conundrum in Uruguay during the First Half of the 20th Century: An Analysis According to Causes of Death.” Continuity and Change, 2010, 25(3): 435-461.
  • Birn, Anne-Emanuelle and Nixon, Stephanie, “Canada’s Health Care System: A Relevant Approach for South Africa?” South African Medical Journal, 2010, 100 (8): 516-520.
  • Birn, Anne-Emanuelle. “Making it Politic(al): Closing the Gap in a Generation: Health Equity through Action on the Social Determinants of Health,” Social Medicine/Medicina Social, 2009, 4(3): 166-182.
  • Birn, Anne-Emanuelle, “The Stages of International (Global) Health: Histories of Success or Successes of History?” Global Public Health, 2009 4(1): 50-68.
  • Birn, Anne-Emanuelle, “Doctors on Record: Uruguay’s Infant Mortality Stagnation and its Remedies, 1895-1945,” Bulletin of the History of Medicine, 2008, 82 (2):311-354.
  • Birn, Anne-Emanuelle and Hochman, Gilberto, “Communication, Control, and Cooperation: (Latin) American Interchanges in the History of International Health,” Canadian Bulletin of Medical History, 2008, 25 (1): 7-16.
  • Carrillo, Ana María and Birn, Anne-Emanuelle, “Neighbours on Notice: National and Imperialist Interests in the American Public Health Association, 1872-1921,” Canadian Bulletin of Medical History, 2008, 25 (1): 83-112.
  • Birn, Anne-Emanuelle, “Health and Human Rights: Historical Perspectives and Political Challenges,” Journal of Public Health Policy, 2008, 29: 32-41.http://www.palgrave-journals.com/jphp/journal/v29/n1/pdf/3200165a.pdf

Book Chapters (since 2008):

  • Birn, Anne-Emanuelle; Pollero, Raquel. “Public Health in Uruguay, 1830s-1940s.” In The Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Latin American History. New York: Oxford University Press, 2023. https://oxfordre.com/latinamericanhistory/display/10.1093/acrefore/9780199366439.001.0001/acrefore-9780199366439-e-690
  • Birn, Anne-Emanuelle, “Destinos alternativos y solidaridades de la salud y la medicina en los albores de la Guerra Fría latinoamericana.” In Rafael Mandressi and Vania Markarian, eds., Políticas de la ciencia: Historia, actores, espacios e instituciones de la Edad Moderna al mundo contemporáneo. Montevideo: Universidad de la República, 2022, pp. 161-174.
  • Birn, Anne-Emanuelle, and Brown, Theodore, “Health Internationalism in the US and Beyond,” Edinburgh Companion to the Politics of American Health, edited by Martin Halliwell and Sophie A. Jones, Edinburgh University Press, 2022, pp. 585-600. https://edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-the-edinburgh-companion-to-the-politics-of-american-health.html
  • Birn, Anne-Emanuelle, “De Montevideo al mundo: el Instituto Internacional Americano para la Protección a la Infancia,” in La historia de la salud y la enfermedad interpelada: Latinoamérica y España (siglos XIX-XXI), edited by Gustavo Vallejo, Marisa Miranda, Adriana Álvarez,Adrián Carbonetti and María Silvia Di Liscia, Buenos Aires, Remedios de Escalada: De la UNLa – Universidad Nacional de Lanús, 2022, pp. 205-232. http://isco.unla.edu.ar/edunla/cuadernos/catalog/view/28/38/111-1
  • Birn, Anne-Emanuelle, and Kumar, Ramya, “Societal Determinants and Determination of Health,” in Solomon Benatar and Gillian Brock, eds. Global Health: Ethical Challenges (Cambridge University Press, 2021), pp. 28-50.
  • Schrecker, Ted, Birn, Anne-Emanuelle, and Aguilera, Mariajosé, “Challenging the Global Extractive Order: A Global Health Justice Imperative,” in Solomon Benatar and Gillian Brock, eds. Global Health: Ethical Challenges (Cambridge University Press, 2021), pp. 256-268.
  • Birn, Anne-Emanuelle, “Alternative Destinies and Solidarities for Health and Medicine in Latin America before and during the Cold War,” in Peripheral Nerve: Health and Medicine in Cold War Latin America, edited by Anne-Emanuelle Birn and Raúl Necochea López, 1-28. Durham: Duke University Press, 2020. https://www.dukeupress.edu/Assets/PubMaterials/978-1-4780-0956-6_601.pdf
  • Birn, Anne-Emanuelle, and Raúl Necochea López, “A Lingering Cold (War)? Reflections for the Present and an Agenda for Further Research,” in Peripheral Nerve: Health and Medicine in Cold War Latin America, edited by Anne-Emanuelle Birn and Raúl Necochea López, 267-294. Durham: Duke University Press, 2020.
  • Birn, Anne-Emanuelle and Muntaner, Carles, “Latin American Social Medicine Across Borders: South-South Cooperation and the Making of Health Solidarity” in Social Inequities and Contemporary Struggles for Collective Health in Latin America, edited by Emily E. Vasquez, Amaya Perez- Brumer and Richard G. Parker, 41-58. London: Routledge, 2020.
  • Birn, Anne-Emanuelle Birn, Zimmerman, Sarah, and Garfield, Richard. Descentralizar o no descentralizar, ¿es esta la cuestión? La política sanitaria nicaragüense en el ajuste estructural de la década de 1990. In Espai i salut en el procés descentralitzador del marc autonòmic espanyol: Balanç i perspectives de future, edited by Rosa Ballester Añón and Josep Bernabeu-Mestre, 105-126. Alicante, Spain: Universitat d’Alacant, 2019.
  • Birn, Anne-Emanuelle and Richter, Judith. “US Philanthrocapitalism and the Global Health Agenda: The Rockefeller and Gates Foundations, past and present,” in Howard Waitzkin and the Working Group for Health Beyond Capitalism, eds. Health Care Under the Knife:  Moving Beyond Capitalism for Our Health, Monthly Review Press, https://monthlyreview.org/product/health_care_under_the_knife/
  • Also posted on: http://www.peah.it/2017/05/4019/; and https://www.globalpolicy.org/home/270-general/52947-us-philanthrocapitalism-and-the-global-health-agenda-the-rockefeller-and-gates-foundations-past-and-present.html; and https://www.futureworldfoundation.org/Content/Article.aspx?ArticleID=22802; and http://ad-core.net.ru/Philanthrocapitalism%20past%20and%20present
  • Translated into French as: “Philanthrocapitalisme et santé mondiale: les fondations Rockefeller et Gates autrefois et actuellement, » and published on Mediapart, 4 October 2017: https://blogs.mediapart.fr/anne-emanuelle-birn/blog/011017/philanthrocapitalisme-et-sante-mondiale-les-fondations-rockefeller-et-gates-0
  • Translated into Spanish as: “El filantrocapitalismo de los EUA y la agenda mundial de salud: las Fundaciones Rockefeller y Gates, pasado y presente,” Medicina Social  2016, 11, (3): 135-152. http://www.medicinasocial.info/index.php/medicinasocial/issue/view/94/showToc
  • Translated into Portuguese as: “Filantropo-capitalismo estadunidense e a agenda da saúde global: as fundações Rockefeller e Gates, passado e presente” Dossiê: Geografia e Saúde: uma aproximação possível e relevante 2018, 20(2): 27-39. https://online.unisc.br/seer/index.php/agora/article/view/12366
  • Birn, Anne-Emanuelle. “Sueños y pesadillas de la erradicación de la viruela: Reflexiones críticas para la salud global,” in María Isabel Porras Gallo, María José Báguena Cervellera, Mariano Ayarzagüena Sanz, and Noelia María Martín Espinosa, eds. La erradicación y el control de las enfermedades infecciosas. Madrid: Los Libros de la Catarata, 2016.
  • Kumar, Ramya, Birn, Anne-Emanuelle, and McDonough, Peggy. “International cooperation in women’s health: Critical analysis of a quarter century of paradigm shifts,” Gideon, Jasmine, ed. Handbook on Gender and Health, Edward Elgar: Cheltenham, 2016, pp. 25-44. http://www.elgaronline.com/view/9781784710859.xml
  • Birn, Anne-Emanuelle and Brown, Theodore, “Introduction: Health Comrades, Abroad and at Home,” in Anne-Emanuelle Birn and Theodore Brown, eds., Comrades in Health: US Health Internationalists, Abroad and at Home, Rutgers University Press, 2013.
  • Brown, Theodore and Birn, Anne-Emanuelle, “The Making of Health Internationalists,” in Anne-Emanuelle Birn and Theodore Brown, eds., Comrades in Health: US Health Internationalists, Abroad and at Home, Rutgers University Press, 2013.
  • Birn, Anne-Emanuelle and Brown, Theodore, “Conclusion: Across the Generations: Lessons from Health Internationalism,” in Anne-Emanuelle Birn and Theodore Brown, eds., Comrades in Health: US Health Internationalists, Abroad and at Home, Rutgers University Press, 2013.
  • Satzinger, Franziska and Birn, Anne-Emanuelle, “Social and Societal Determinants of Health,” Encyclopedia of Bioethics, 4th Edition, Bruce Jennings, ed. Farmington Hills, MI: Macmillan Reference, 2014, pp. 2639-2645.
  • Birn, Anne-Emanuelle, From plagues to peoples: Health on the modern global/international agenda,” in Ted Schrecker, ed., Ashgate Research Companion to the Globalization of Health, Ashgate, 2012, pp. 39-59.
  • Birn, Anne-Emanuelle, “Uruguay’s child rights approach to health: What role for civil registration?” in Keith Breckenridge and Simon Szreter, eds., Registration and Recognition: Documenting the Person in World History, Oxford University Press for the British Academy, 2012, pp. 415-447.
  • Pinto, Andrew D., Birn, Anne-Emanuelle, Upshur, Ross E.G., “The Context of Global Health Ethics,” in Andrew Pinto and Ross Upshur, eds., An Introduction to Global Health Ethics, Routledge, 2012, pp. 3-15.
  • Birn, Anne-Emanuelle, “Public Health and Medicine in Latin America,” in The Oxford Handbook of the History of Medicine, Mark Jackson, ed. Oxford University Press, 2011, pp. 243-265.
  • Birn, Anne-Emanuelle. “Addressing the Societal Determinants of Health: The key global health ethics imperative of our times,” in Global Health Ethics, edited by Solly Benatar and Gillian Brock. Cambridge University Press, 2011, pp. 37-52.
  • Birn, Anne-Emanuelle. “Historicising, Politicising, and “Futurising” Closing the Gap in a Generation: Health Equity through Action on the Social Determinants of Health,” in Social Determinants of Health: Assessing Theory, Policy and Practice, edited by Sanjoy Bhattacharya, Sharon Messenger, and Caroline Overy. Hyderabad, India: Orient Blackswan, 2010, pp. 76-113.
  • Birn, Anne-Emanuelle. “¿Revolución, nada más?: La campaña de la Fundación Rockefeller contra la Uncinariasis en México de la década de 1920,” in Curar, Sanar y Educar. Salud, Enfermedad y Sociedad en México, Siglos XIX y XX, edited by Claudia Agostoni. México, D.F.: Instituto de Investigaciones Históricas, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, 2008, pp. 257-286.
  • Birn, Anne-Emanuelle. “Milking the Welfare State: Social Policies and Uruguay’s Infant Mortality Stagnation,” in Social Determinants of Health: Global Histories, Contemporary Debates, edited by Harold Cook, Sanjoy Bhattacharya and Anne Hardy. Hyderabad, India: Orient Longman Private Ltd, 2008, pp. 174-202.
  • Birn, Anne-Emanuelle. “Historiography of Infant and Child Health in Latin America,” in Healing the World’s Children: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Child Health in the Twentieth Century, edited by Cynthia Comacchio, Janet Golden, and George Weisz. Montreal: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2008, pp. 73-108.

Working Papers:

  • Convenor and co-author, People’s Health Movement (PHM)-Canada, PHM-Ecuador, and PHM Ecosystems and Health Thematic Circle, Beyond an Extractivist World: Why Imagining and Acting Upon Alternative Modes of Living are Crucial to Saving the Planet from Capitalism, January 2023. https://phm-na.org/2023/03/beyond-an-extractivist-world/
  • Aguilera, Mariajosé, Birn, Anne-Emanuelle, and Schrecker, Ted. “Extracting resources, compromising health: The political economy of extractive industries and health,” prepared for the Independent Panel on Global Governance for Health (University of Oslo), October 2017.
  • Bambas-Nolen L, Birn A-E, Cairncross E, et al. Case study on extractive industries. Background paper prepared for The Lancet–University of Oslo Commission on Global Governance for Health, 2013.https://www.med.uio.no/helsam/english/research/global-governance-health/background-papers/extrac-indus.pdf

BOOK AND MEDIA REVIEWS (since 2008):

  • Centaurus: An International Journal of the History of Science and its Cultural Aspects2022(64)4: 953–60  Essay Review: “Pandemic Histories: Making Meaning or Embedding Bromides”
  • American Historical Review 2018 (123)4:1338-9 Aelwen D. Wetherby, Private Aid, Political Activism: American Medical Relief to Spain and China, 1936–1949
  • Bulletin of the History of Medicine 2018(92)2:384-5  Okezi Otovo, Progressive Mothers, Better Babies: Race, Public Health, and the State in Brazil, 1850-1945
  • Bulletin of Latin American Research 2018(37):498-500 Chris Walker, Venezuela’s Health Care Revolution
  • Latin American Politics and Society  2017(59)4: 155-9 Mary Helen Spooner and Steven Ullmann, Cuban Health Care: Utopian Dreams, Fragile Future and John M. Kirk, Healthcare Without Borders: Understanding Cuban Medical Internationalism
  • Nature 2017(544):31-2           “The Politics of Giving,” Review of David Callahan, The Givers: Wealth, Power, and Philanthropy in a New Gilded Age
  • 2017(548):29  Todd Gordon and Jeffery R. Webber, Blood of Extraction: Canadian Imperialism in Latin America
  • Social History of Medicine  2018(31):189-91  Josep L. Barona, The Rockefeller Foundation, Public Health and International Diplomacy, 1920–1945
  • American Historical Review 2011(76):490-1 Mariola Espinosa, Epidemic Invasions: Yellow Fever and the Limits of Cuban Independence, 1878-1930
  • Bulletin of Latin American Research 2009 (28):138-9 Jeffrey Pilcher, The Sausage Rebellion: Public Heath, Private Enterprise and Meat in Mexico City, 1890-1917
  • H-Diplo Article reviews 2013 (with Nikolai Krementsov) review of Anna Geltzer, “In a Distorted Mirror: The Cold War and U.S.-Soviet Biomedical Cooperation and (Mis)understanding, 1956–1977,” Journal of Cold War Studies
  • Lancet     2016(388):121 Ted Schrecker and Clare Bambra, How Politics Makes Us Sick: Neoliberal Epidemics
  • Medical History 2014(58):604-6 Deborah Neill, Networks in Tropical Medicine: Internationalism, Colonialism and the Rise of a Medical Specialty, 1890-1930
  • Nature Medicine 2011(17), 1:23 Mark Pendergrast, Inside the Outbreaks: The Elite Medical Detectives of the Epidemic Intelligence Service
  • Social History 2010 (35):88-90 Ann Zulawski, Unequal Cures: Public Health and Political Change in Bolivia, 1900-1950
  • The Americas 2010 (66):398-9 Matthew Gutmann, Fixing Men: Sex, Birth Control, and AIDS in Mexico

FOREWORDS, COMMENTS, LETTERS TO THE EDITOR, BLOGS, PRAISE QUOTES, MEDIA, ARTICLES IN THE POPULAR PRESS, PODCASTS (since 2008):

Global Health Matters Podcast (TDR: UNICEF, UNDP, WHO): Decolonization, localization and WHO – History matters part 1, May 9, 2023: https://www.buzzsprout.com/1632040/12745937

Video teaser: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/gtUAm6Ux4QU

Interview featured in “Rethinking the SDGs.… in the Pandemic Aftermath.” The World We Want: Actions Towards a Sustainable, Fairer, and Healthier Society, A Short-film Trilogy, produced by People’s Health Movement (PHM), supported by Prince Mahidol Award Conference, January 2022. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DCeMLOwxJco

Birn, Anne-Emanuelle, Amaya Perez-Brumer, Angela Mashford-Pringle, Roberta Timothy, and Lisa Forman, “A new Canadian citizenship guide is long overdue,” The Conversation https://theconversation.com/a-new-canadian-citizenship-guide-is-long-overdue-144629 October 5, 2020.

Related radio interview: https://www.spreaker.com/user/redeye/canadian-citizenship-study-guide-should-

Austin, Evelyn… Birn, AE et al. Op-ed: U of T must do better to support the lives and livelihoods of its workers during COVID-19 https://thevarsity.ca/2020/07/16/op-ed-u-of-t-must-do-better-to-support-the-lives-and-livelihoods-of-its-workers-during-covid-19/

Interviews on WHO and COVID-19, CBC radio: Y a pas 2 matins pareils: https://ici.radio-canada.ca/premiere/emissions/y-a-pas-deux-matins-pareils/episodes/461390/rattrapage-du-lundi-20-avril-2020/6  &    https://ici.radio-canada.ca/premiere/emissions/jonction-11-17

Austin, Evelyn… Birn, AE et al. Op-ed: U of T must do better to support the lives and livelihoods of its workers during COVID-19 https://thevarsity.ca/2020/07/16/op-ed-u-of-t-must-do-better-to-support-the-lives-and-livelihoods-of-its-workers-during-covid-19/

Classy, cutting-edge and cosmopolitan: HCSM at 25: http://www.revistahcsm.coc.fiocruz.br/english/classy-cutting-edge-and-cosmopolitan/  June 2019.

Invited praise quote (dustjacket and website) for Esyllt Jones, Radical Medicine: The International Origins of Socialized Health Care in Canada, Winnipeg, ARP Books, 2019.

 Invited praise quote (dustjacket and website) for Marcos Cueto, Theodore Brown, and Elizabeth Fee, The World Health Organization: A History, Cambridge University Press, 2019.

Birn, Anne-Emanuelle, “Obituary, Elizabeth Fee, 1946-2018,” American Association for the History of Medicine Newsletter, No. 118, October 2018, pp. 5-8. Also posted online on the following listserves: Spirit of 1848, ALAMES, Sigerist Circle, WHOM (Women Historians of Medicine), and the following American Public Health Association groups:  Women’s caucus, Medical Care Section , LGBTQ caucus, Socialist caucus. http://www1.cuny.edu/mu/forum/2018/10/23/in-memoriam-dr-elizabeth-fee/

Baijayanta Mukhopadhyay, Lori Hanson, Klaudia Dmitrienko, Jannie Wing-Sea Leung, and Anne-Emanuelle Birn, “Letter to the editor: < Canada’s global health role: Making Canadian global health “great again” is misguided,> Correspondence, The Lancet, 392(10162): 2349-2350, December 1, 2018.

Martha Roberts, Baijayanta Mukhopadhyay, Anne-Emanuelle Birn, Farah Shroff, Smita Pakhale, and Lori Hanson, “Alma-Ata at 40: Insights from Canada,” Health and Human Rights Journal, October 17, 2018. https://www.hhrjournal.org/2018/10/alma-ata-at-40-insights-from-canada/

Ramya Kumar and Anne-Emanuelle Birn, “Universal health coverage can best be achieved by public systems”  BMJ Opinion, 24 August 2018.  https://blogs.bmj.com/bmj/2018/08/24/universal-health-coverage-public-systems/

Birn, Anne-Emanuelle and Liisa North, “Canada must do more to tackle Central America’s refugee crisis,” The Hill Times, 30 July 2018. https://www.hilltimes.com/2018/07/30/canada-must-tackle-central-americas-refugee-crisis/152687

Interview of Anne-Emanuelle Birn by Anne Jung, “Softdrinks statt Trinkwasser: 70 Jahre WHO: Die Privatisierung der Globalen Gesundheit kostet die Gesundheitsgerechtigkeit. (“Global health accountability is impeded by the power of private interests”), Medico International magazine, June 26, 2016, pp. 19-21,  and accompanying (uncut) blog  https://www.medico.de/softdrinks-statt-trinkwasser-17122/   (both in German)

Sakura Saunders, Anne-Emanuelle Birn, Ben Brisbois, Donald C. Cole, Paul A. Hamel, Lori Hanson, Jamie Kneen, and Baijayanta Mukhopadhyay, “Who will publish eulogies for the victims of Barrick Gold?” Briarpatch, April 24, 2018. https://briarpatchmagazine.com/blog/view/who-will-publish-eulogies-for-the-victims-of-barrick-gold

Birn, Anne-Emanuelle. How did the plague impact health regulation? 20 March 2018 (blog) https://blog.oup.com/2018/03/plague-impact-health-regulation/

“Climate Change, Environmental Degradation, and Health: Confronting the Realities,” with Mariajosé Aguilera (former MPH student); comes out under collective authorship of Medact, PHM, TWN, ALAMES, etc. Global Health Watch 5: An Alternative World Health Report, 2017, pp. 171-187

Birn, Anne-Emanuelle.  “Le philanthrocapitalisme étasunien et les ploutocrates de la santé mondiale” Le Courrier (Genève), 19 September 2017.

https://www.lecourrier.ch/152698/le_philanthrocapitalisme_etasunien_et_les_ploutocrates_de_la_sante_mondiale  Reprinted in Angles d’Attac, no. 108, March 2018, pp. 5-6.

Nancy Krieger, Anne-Emanuelle Birn, et al. “To: Dr. Alfredo Morabia, Editor, AJPH,American Journal of Public Health 107, no. 9 (September 1, 2017): p. e10.

Yogan Pillay, Anne-Emanuelle Birn, and Timothy H. Holtz, “What can we expect from the leadership of the recently elected World Health Organization Director-General, Dr Tedros?” South African Medical Journal 2017;107(8): 648-649.

Signatory to: Benos A, Bodini C, Cowan H, et al. Defending academic and medical independence in Turkey. Lancet 2017; published online July 27. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/ S0140-6736(17)32093-7.

Birn, Anne-Emanuelle, Yogan Pillay, and Timothy H. Holtz, “WHO DG Candidates respond to fundamental questions on WHO and global health,” PLoS Blogs: Diverse perspectives on science and medicine, May 4, 2017.

http://blogs.plos.org/yoursay/2017/05/04/where-do-the-3-candidates-for-the-whos-next-director-general-stand-on-the-most-challenging-global-health-issues-of-our-time/

Invited praise quote (dustjacket and website) for Randall Packard, A History of Global Health: Interventions into the Lives of Other Peoples, Johns Hopkins University Press, forthcoming 2016.

Invited praise quote (dustjacket and website) for Gilberto Hochman, The Era of Sanitation: Nation, State, and Public Health in Brazil, 1889-1930, University of Illinois Press, forthcoming 2016.

Birn, Anne-Emanuelle, Mariajosé Aguilera, Ben Brisbois, and Timothy H. Holtz, “Why Addressing Climate Change is Not Enough” Huffington Post, December 25, 2015 http://www.huffingtonpost.com/anneemanuelle-birn/why-addressing-climate-change-is-not-enough_b_8877748.html

Invited praise quote (dustjacket and website) for David Sowell, Medicine on the Periphery: Public Health in Yucatán, Mexico, 1870-1960, Lexington Books/ Rowman & Littlefield, 2015.

David McCoy, David Sanders, David Legge, Anne-Emanuelle Birn, Amit Sengupta, “Social and political remedies needed for the Ebola tragedy.” Letter to the Editor. The Lancet, 2015, 386:738.

Birn, Anne-Emanuelle and Brown, Theodore, “Misunderstanding Comrades in Health,” The Lancet, 2014, 384:1262.

Chiriboga, David; Buss, Paulo; Birn, Anne-Emanuelle; et al. “Investing in Health,” Letter to the Editor. The Lancet, 2014, 383:949.

DeVos, Pol, Claudio Schuftan, David Sanders, Ronald Labonte, David Woodward, Anne-Emanuelle Birn, Chiara Bodini, Angelo Stefanini, Hani Serag Commission on Global Governance for Health: Just another report? Letter to the Editor. The Lancet, 2014, 383:1379-80

Invited praise quote (dustjacket and website) for Robert Chernomas and Ian Hudson, To Live and Die in America: Class, Power, Health and Healthcare, Pluto Press, 2013.

Birn, Anne-Emanuelle The WCSDH was a missed opportunity and the Rio Declaration lacked political teeth Internet interview with Alberto Pellegrini Filho, 2011. Available at: http://cmdss2011.org/site/entrevistas/the-wcsdh-was-a-missed-opportunity-and-the-rio-declaration-little-political/ Portuguese version: A CMDSS foi uma oportunidade perdida e a Declaração do Rio pouco política [entrevista na internet]. Entrevista concedida a Alberto Pellegrini Filho, 2011. [acesso em]. Disponível em: http://cmdss2011.org/site/entrevistas/a-cmdss-foi-uma-oportunidade-perdida-e-a-declaracao-do-rio-pouco-politica/

Invited praise quote (dustjacket and website) for Nancy Krieger, Epidemiology and the People’s Health: Theory and Context, Oxford University Press, 2011.

Birn, Anne-Emanuelle, Holtz, Timothy H, and Gassert, Thomas H. “Digging beneath the Chilean mine rescue,”The Toronto Star, October 17, 2010, p. A19. http://www.thestar.com/opinion/editorialopinion/article/876348–digging-beneath-the-chilean-mine-rescue (Reprinted in New England College of Occupational and Environmental Medicine, NECOEM Reporter, Vol. 2, 30, Autumn 2010, pp. 1, 7.)

Birn, Anne-Emanuelle. “Prólogo,” in Adriana Alvarez, Entre muerte y mosquitos: El regreso de las plagas en la Argentina (siglos XIX y XX). Buenos Aires: Biblos, 2010, pp. 13-15.

Krieger, Nancy and Birn, Anne-Emanuelle. “Health Reform Battles in the USA,” Letter to the Editor. The Lancet, 2010, 375:1081.

Birn, Anne-Emanuelle. “Mortal Questions: Uruguay’s Infant Mortality Conundrum,” Wellcome History, Spring 2009, 40: 2-4. www.wellcome.ac.uk/wellcomehistory