Thomas H. Broman, Professor, A.B.(biology and chemistry) Ripon College; M.S. (agronomy) University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; M.A. (history) Princeton University; Ph.D. (history) Princeton University. Early modern medicine.

R. Alta Charo, Professor, Law and Bioethics, A.B. (biology) Harvard-Radcliffe College; J.D. Columbia University School of Law. Reproductive rights; genetics; human subjects research; biotechnology politics.

Dayle B. DeLancey, Assistant Professor, B.A. (History & Literature) and M.A. (English), Harvard University; M.Sc. and Ph.D. (History of Science, Technology, & Medicine), CHSTM, University of Manchester, UK. 19th- & 20th-c. African-American health experiences (esp. vaccination), U.S. public health, medical technologies, the public understanding of medicine, and race & gender in medicine.

Norman Fost, Professor, Pediatrics and Bioethics, A.B. Princeton University; M.D. Yale University; M.P.H. Harvard University. Ethical and legal issues in research and genetic screening; use of performance enhancing drugs; access to growth hormone; definition of death.

Daniel Hausman, Herbert A. Simon Professor, History and Literature, B.A. Harvard; Philosophy, B.A., M.A. Cambridge; Philosophy, M.A., Ph.D. Columbia. He is currently involved with questions concerning the concept of health, the allocation of health care resources, and the role of preferences in measuring health and setting policy.

Linda F. Hogle, Professor of Medical Social Sciences.  Ph.D. Medical Anthropology, University of California, San Francisco and University of California, Berkeley. Stem cell and tissue engineering policy and ethics; socio-cultural, political and ethical issues in emerging biomedical engineering technologies; transnational issues in governance of novel technologies.

Judith A. Houck, Associate Professor, B.A. (liberal studies) St. John's College, Sante Fe; M.A., Ph.D. (history of science) University of Wisconsin. History of women's health, American medicine, medicine and sexuality, race and medicine, science and gender.

Paul Kelleher, Assistant Professor, B.A. Colgate University, Philosophy; Ph.D. Cornell University, Philosophy. Political philosophy and the nature of distributive justice and its implications for health policy.

Richard C. Keller, Associate Professor, B.A. (history) University of Colorado at Boulder; M.A., (European history), University of Colorado at Boulder; Ph.D. (European history), Rutgers University. History of European and colonial medicine and public health, history of psychiatry and psychoanalysis, history of the human sciences, science and race.

Susan E. Lederer, Robert Turell Professor of Medical History and Bioethics, and Chair, B.A. (history of science) Johns Hopkins University; M.A., (history of science), University of Wisconsin, Madison; Ph.D. (history of science), University of Wisconsin, Madison.Medicine and society in twentieth-century America, media and medicine, history of medical ethics.

Gregg Mitman, Professor, B.Sc. (biology) Dalhousie University; M.A., Ph.D. (history of science) University of Wisconsin. History of ecology; environment and health, 20th century life sciences; science in America; science and film.

Ronald L. Numbers, Hilldale and William Coleman Professor, B.A. (mathematics and physics) Southern Adventist University; M.A. (history) Florida State University; Ph.D. (history) University of California, Berkeley. American science and medicine; science and religion.

Pilar N. Ossorio, Associate Professor, Law and Bioethics, B.S. (biology) Stanford University; Ph.D. (microbiology and immunology) Stanford University; J.D. University of California at Berkeley School of Law. Research ethics and regulation; ethical issues in genetics; race theory; race/ethnicity in research and medicine, community consultation as an ethics method.

Robert Streiffer, Associate Professor, Bioethics and Philosophy, B.A. (philosophy) Reed College; Ph.D. Massachussets Institute of Technology. Abstract ethical theory, political philosophy; ethical and political issues related to agricultural biotechnology.

Helen Tilley, Visiting Assistant Professor, B.A. University of Chicago; M.A. (History of Science) University of California-Berkeley; D. Phil. (Imperial and African History) Oxford University. History of environmental, medical, racial, and anthropological research in colonial and post-colonial Africa, emphasizing in particular intersections with African environmental history and development studies.

Claire Wendland, Associate Professor of Anthropology, M.D., Michigan State University, 1990; Ph.D., U Mass Amherst, 2004; the globalization of biomedicine,particularly in Africa; the anthropology of reproduction, sexuality and the body.

Emeritus Faculty

Judith W. Leavitt, Rupple Bascom and Ruth Bleier Professor Emerita, Professor, B.A. (social sciences) Antioch College; M.A.T. (education) University of Chicago; M.A., Ph.D. (history) University of Chicago. History of medicine and public health in America; women and medicine. (October 1-2, 2010, events in honor of Judith Leavitt)