William Muraskin PhD, University of California Berkeley: social/urban history, health

Academic

William Muraskin, a historian, has focused his research work over the past two decades on the formation of international health policy and the history of infectious diseases. He has written The War Against Hepatitis B (University of Pennsylvania Press, 1995), The Politics of International Health (SUNY Press, 1998) and recently finished a third volume tentatively titled Revolution in International Public Health? The Origin of the Bill and Melinda Gates Children’s Vaccine Initiative (CVP) and the Birth of the Global Alliance for Vaccine and Immunization (GAVI). Currently he is working under a two year grant from the Rockefeller Foundation to look intensively at new Public-Private Partnerships in International Health dedicated to developing  drugs and vaccines for tuberculosis, dengue, HIV/AIDS, and malaria. 

Muraskin teaches the Department's courses, Urban Epidemics: Tuberculosis to AIDS, Emerging Diseases and the Criminal Justice System.

Muraskin is the Department's Graduate Advisor.

Contact

Office: Powdermaker Rm. 250
Telephone: (718) 997 5149
Email: muraskin@yahoo.com

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