Allen Rosenfield , M.D.
Dean
Columbia School of Public Health

Allen Rosenfield was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts. He received a Bachelor of Arts degree from Harvard College and an M.D. degree from the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Columbia University. Internship and one year of general surgical residency was completed at Beth Israel Hospital in Boston, followed by two years of service in the U.S. Air Force. He then entered the obstetrics and gynecology residency program at Harvard's Boston Lying/In/Free Hospital for Women program in Boston (now the Brigham and Women's Hospital).

Following completion of training in 1966, Dr. Rosenfield spent one year as an instructor in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at the University of Lagos Teaching Hospital in Nigeria. He then joined the Population Council, serving for six years in Thailand as Medical Advisor for Family Planning and Maternal and Child Health to the Ministry of Public Health, and as representative of the Population Council. He returned to New York to direct an international rural-based maternal and child health and family planning program sponsored by the Population Council.

In 1975, Dr. Rosenfield moved to Columbia University, as professor of Obstetrics-Gynecology and Public Health, director of the Center for Population and Family Health, and director of ambulatory care, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology. Since 1986 he has been Dean of the School of Public Health and DeLamar Professor of Public Health. Prior to becoming dean, he served two years as acting chairman of the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology and continues to be a professor of obstetrics and gynecology.

Dr. Rosenfield is a diplomate of the American Board of Obstetrics and Gynecology, a fellow of the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists and an elected member of the National Academy of Science's Institute of Medicine. He is a member of many scientific and professional organizations and has served on the boards and/or committees of a number of international, national, state and local health-related organizations. He has served as president of the new York Obstetrical Society, chair of the Executive Board of the American Public Health Association, and chair of the Boards of the Planned Parenthood Federation of America, AVSC International and the Alan Guttmacher Institute. He is currently chairman of the New York State Department of Health AIDS Advisory Council, and president-elect of the Association of Schools of Public Health.

He has written extensively on domestic and international issues in the fields of population, women's reproductive health, obstetrics and gynecology, human rights and health policy, with over 100 publications to date.

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