Constance A. Nathanson

Constance A. Nathanson, PhD, is currently Professor Emerita at Columbia University. She has over 45 years of experience in research on sociological dimensions of health and health policy. Her work over the past 30 years has focused on the history, politics, and sociology of public health policy and policy change in the United States and in its peer developed countries. Her recent publications include two books, Disease Prevention as Social Change (2007) and The Social Production of Crisis (2023) that describe and interpret public health policy shifts across time in the United States, France, Great Britain, and Canada (2007) and the United States and France (2023) as well as multiple articles on related topics. Dr. Nathanson holds a PhD in Sociology from the University of Chicago and was a professor in the Johns Hopkins School of Hygiene and Public (now the Bloomberg School of Public Health) until she joined the faculty in the Department of Sociomedical Sciences at Columbia’s Mailman School of Public Health in 2002.


Updated September 19, 2024