Elena Conis, PhD is currently Senior Fellow in the Center for Health, Culture and Society at Emory University. Her research concerns the history of medicine, public health and environmentalism in the twentieth-century. Her current project, Vaccine Nation, is a social history of vaccination in the late twentieth-century U.S. From 2004 to 2007, she was a lecturer at the University of California, Berkeley, where she taught global environmental health and development. Since 2003, she has been a columnist for the Los Angeles Times, covering alternative medicine, nutrition and the history of medicine.
Dr. Conis has also worked as a consultant for a variety of health, development and media organizations, including:
- California
HealthCare Foundation
- Children's
Environmental Health Network
- Center for
Occupational and Environmental Health
- David and
Lucile Packard Foundation
- Institute
for Global Health
- Institute
for Health Policy Reform
- New
America Media
- Public
Health Institute
- Washington
Toxics Coalition
