Articles
- Public Health Under Attack: Continuity, Discontinuity, and History, Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law 51, no. 2 (2026).
- Pursuing Health Equity in the United States, New England Journal of Medicine 393, no. 18 (2025), with Crystal W. Cené, David A. Ansell, Lisa A. Cooper, and others.
- Journal Voices in the Civil Rights Era - New Horizons and Limits in Medical Publishing, New England Journal of Medicine 390, no. 17 (2024): 1541-1547.
- Environmental Justice: Where It Has Been, and Where It Might Be Going, Annual Review of Public Health 44 (2023): 93-111.
- What Is a “Racial Health Disparity”? Five Analytic Traditions, Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law 47, no. 2 (2022): 131-171.
- The 60/40 Problem: Trump, Culpability, and Covid-19, in The Presidency of Donald J. Trump: A First Historical Assessment (Princeton University Press, 2022).
- Racial Health Disparities and Covid-19 - Caution and Context, New England Journal of Medicine (2020).
- Health, Social Reform, and Medical Schools - The Training of American Physicians and the Dissenting Tradition, New England Journal of Medicine (2019).
- Rethinking Private-Public Partnership: The Case of Municipal Hospital Affiliation, Bulletin of the History of Medicine 93, no. 4 (Winter 2019).
- “Nondetected”: The Politics of Measurement of Asbestos in Talc, 1971-1976, American Journal of Public Health (2019).
- The Fall and Rise of Mid-Century Medical Student Health Activism: Political Repression, McCarthyism, and the Death of the Association of Internes and Medical Students (1947-1953), Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences 74, no. 2 (April 2019).
- Two Cheers for Air Pollution Control: Triumphs and Limits of the Mid-Century Fight for Air Quality, Public Health Reports (2019).
- Big Data, Large-Scale Text Analysis, and Public Health Research, American Journal of Public Health 109 (2019).
- Biocitizenship on the Ground: The Medical Governance Revolution of the 1960s and 1970s, in Kelly Happe, Jennell Johnson, and Marina Levina, eds., Biocitizenship (New York University Press, 2018).
- Cleveland vs. the Clinic: The 1960s Riots and Community Health Reform, American Journal of Public Health 101 (November 2018).
- “Precision” Public Health: Between Novelty and Hype, New England Journal of Medicine (2018), with Ronald Bayer and Sandro Galea.
- “The Neurosis That Has Possessed Us”: Political Repression in the Cold War Medical Profession, Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences 73, no. 3 (July 2018).
- The War on Poverty Health Legacy: What It Was and Why It Matters, Health Affairs 37, no. 1 (January 2018).
- ToxicDocs (www.ToxicDocs.org): From History Buried in Stacks of Paper to Open, Searchable Archives Online, Journal of Public Health Policy 39, no. 1 (February 2018), with David Rosner and Gerald Markowitz.
- Michael Katz and the Activist-Academic Tension, Social Science History 41, no. 4 (2017).
- Beyond the Precautionary Principle: Protecting Public Health and the Environment in the Face of Uncertainty, in Bioethical Insights into Values and Policy (Springer, 2016), with Amy Fairchild, James Colgrove, Ronald Bayer, and Daniel Wolfe.
- The Seat at the Table Problem: Broadening Reception for Historians of Medicine and Public Health, Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences 70 (October 2015).
- African Americans and Health Care: State-Sponsored and Grassroots Alternatives, Journal of African-American History 99, no. 4 (Fall 2014).
- Considerations for Building a Population Health Movement, in Supporting a Movement for Health and Health Equity (National Academies Press, 2013).
- Race, Class, Crisis: The Discourse of Disparity and Its Analytical Discontents, Socialist Register 48, no. 1 (2012), with Adolph Reed Jr.
- The Strange Disappearance of History from Racial Health Disparities Research, Du Bois Review 8, no. 1 (2011).
- The New Left and Public Health: The Health Policy Advisory Center (Health/PAC), Community Organizing, and the Big Business of Health (1967-1975), American Journal of Public Health 101, no. 2 (February 2011).
- Immigration and the New Metropolitan Geography, Journal of Urban Affairs 32, no. 5 (February 2010).