Dean Colgrove most recently directed the master’s program in sociomedical sciences at the Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health, where he also serves as a professor of sociomedical sciences.
“I’m excited and honored to be joining the wonderful Postbac Premed team and am looking forward to working with the extraordinary staff and students at GS,” Dean Colgrove said.
An accomplished scholar, teacher, and author, Dean Colgrove’s research focuses on examining the relationship between individual rights and the collective well-being, and the social, political, and legal processes through which public health policies have been mediated in American history.
He is an award-winning teacher known for his popular undergraduate course, Social History of American Public Health, and has written several books on public health including Epidemic City: The Politics of Public Health in New York (Russell Sage Foundation, 2011) and State of Immunity: The Politics of Vaccination in Twentieth-Century America (University of California Press, 2006). He has also been published in The New England Journal of Medicine, the American Journal of Public Health, Science, Health Affairs, the Bulletin of the History of Medicine, and the Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics.
Dean Colgrove comes to GS with many years of experience advising and mentoring students pursuing careers in the health sciences, and will be working closely with Andrew Sunshine, Director of the Postbac Premed Program, as well as the Postbac Premed advising team, to build upon our foundation as the oldest, largest, and most prestigious postbaccalaureate premedical program in the country.
