Curriculum Vitae
Curriculum Vitae
Harriet A. Washington
3310 Bronx Boulevard
Bronx, New York 10467
(585) 748-5310 mobile
E-mail: haw95@
SELECTED PROFESSIONAl EXPERIENCE
Expert witness in Baltimore. Md. lead poisoning cases, 2008-present
Editorial Board member, American Legacy Magazine, 2004-2010
Editor, American Legacy Healthcare Advantage, 2003-2007
Editorial Board member New Press
Editorial Board President, Ferre Institute
Editorial Board Member, Journal of the National Medical Association
Consultant, National Medical Association 1998, 2001-2002
Instructor, “Science and Media” New School University, New York City 2001
Author, Closing the Healthcare Gap: A Call to Action, Aetna (2002 Calendar)
Editor, “Health is Wealth,”Healthcare pullout section in Black Enterprise
Consultant, PeerMed (EuroRSCG)
Editor, Guide To A Healthy Mind (video and brochure) for the Magic Johnson Foundation
Editor, National Medical Association/Ebony Guide to Good Health
Associate Editor, Consumer Reports 1997-2000
Adjunct Professor in Journalism, Rochester Institute of Technology 1996
Editor, Harvard Journal of Minority Public Health 1996-8
Contributing Editor, Heart & Soul 1993-4; 1995-8
Instructor, “Science and Medical Writing” (I developed course) Writers&Books, Rochester, New York 1995
Adjunct Professor, Media Studies, Monroe Community College 1995
Medical Columnist, Emerge Magazine 1994-1999
Health Columnist, Heart & Soul Magazine 1993-5
Teaching Assistant, Public Health Law, Harvard School of Public Health (Lawrence O. Gostin) 1992
Assistant Director, Future Journalists' Workshop, Rochester, New York 1991
Page One Editor, USA TODAY
Health and Science Editor, Democrat and Chronicle/Times-Union (Rochester, New York). I had also served as assistant features editor, assistant news editor, news copy editor, Upstate copy editor, sat on the newspapers’ Style Committee and chaired the Minority Affairs Committee for 5 years
Classical-music announcer, WXXI-FM 91,5 (PBS Affiliate in Rochester New York)
Director, Pregnancy and Parenting Programs, Urban League (Rochester N.Y.) I managed a $150,000 budget, supervised five pregnancy-prevention and parenting-skills counselors, a secretary and coordinated a county-wide media campaign.
Coordinator, Lifeline (poison control and medical emergency hotline)I supervised 75 part-time counselors, three assistant coordinators, a poison-control specialist, a secretary and a data-entry clerk. I supervised training in medical and mental health emergency management, human services information and referral and in poison control. Under the direct supervision of two medical directors, I upgraded poison-control training and wrote a manual used in training poison-center staff.
Laboratory Technician, Cancer Center, Strong Memorial Hospital; Vivarium, Strong Memorial Hospital
PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT
Program in the Practice of Scientific Investigation, Harvard Medical School, 2004
Stanford Professional Publishing Course, 1995
American Press Institute seminar for copy editors 1989
Gannett Company Management Training Course 1990
Project Choice:I coordinated and conducted pregnancy prevention training for Monroe County social workers
Lifeline Poison Control Training: I coordinated and conducted Poison Control training for Lifeline staff, a wide variety of medical agencies and for University of Rochester Medical Center pediatric house staff
ACADEMIC EXPERIENCE
2007-present Grand Rounds at numerous schools of medicine including John Hopkins, University of Chicago, Vassar College, The Mayo Clinic and Howard University
November 2007,McGill Visiting Professor in Medical Journalism, University of Georgia Grady College,
May 2007,Visiting Professor in Health Care Disparities, University of Chicago School of Medicine
2005-2008 Visiting Scholar, College of Law, DePaul University
2005-present Writing Group on African Americans and the Medical profession, the American Medical Association
2005- 2008 Board member, Health Law Institute, DePaul University
2002-2005 Research Fellow in Medical Ethics, Harvard Medical School
2003-present Scholar, Black Women’s Health Project
1998-2002 Senior Research Scholar, National Center For Bioethics in Healthcare Research, Tuskegee University
2001 Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Science Desk Fellow
1997-8 John S. Knight Fellowship, Stanford University
1995 Fellowship, Stanford Professional Publishing Course
1992-4 Harvard Journalism Fellowship for Advanced Studies in Public Health, Harvard School of Public Health
1991 Council for the Advancement of Science Writing Traveling Fellowship
EDUCATION
MA candidate in Science Journalism, Columbia University, 2012-2013
Neuroscience Journal Club, University of Rochester School of Medicine, 1996
Reading proficiency course in German, New School University 2001
Bachelor of Arts, English, University of Rochester, 1978
BOOKS
Deadly Monopolies: The Shocking Corporate Takeover of Life Itself and the Consequences for Your Health and Our Medical Future, Doubleday, October, 2011
Medical Apartheid: The Dark History of Experimentation with Black Americans from Colonial Times to the Present, Random House January, 2007
Living Healthy With Hepatitis C: Natural And Conventional Approaches To Recover Your Quality Of Life (New York) Dell, 2000.
“What You Should Know About Clinical Trials,” (monograph) National Medical Association Project Impact, 2002
Health and Healing for African Americans coauthored with Kirk Johnson , Rodale Press 1997
Parkinson’s Disease: Special Report (Boston, Mass.) Harvard Medical School Health Publications Group, 1993 (monograph)
Where To Find It: A Manual For Poison Control Centers, University of Rochester (monograph), 1984
BOOK CHAPTERS
Foreword to The Notorious Dr Flippin: “Abortion, Race and Consequence in the Early Twentieth Century, (Plains Histories) Texas Tech University Press, 2011
“Base Assumptions: A Global Comparison of DNA, Race and Forensics”, in Genetic Suspects: Global Governance of Forensic DNA Profiling and Databasing, Barbara Prainsack and Richard Hindmarsh, editors, 2010 Cambridge University Press, London
Introduction to The Wonderful Adventures of Mrs. Seacole in Many Lands, Kaplan Publishing, January 2009
Foreword to Sentenced to Science Alan Hornblum 2008 University of Pennsylvania Press
“Born For Evil: Stereotyping the Karyotype A Case History in the Genetics of Aggression,” in Twentieth Century Ethics of Human Subjects Research: Historical Perspectives on Values Practices and Regulations Volker Roelcke and Giovanni Maio, Editors, Franz Steiner Verlag 2004 (Berlin)
“Human Guinea Pigs” in The Best of Emerge Magazine George Curry, editor, Ballantine Books 2004
“The Infection Connection,” in Deviant Behavior Arkansas State University, 2000
“The Vitamin Revolution.” In SuperFoods, Time-Life books, 2001
“BDE” in The Ten Best Health Stories of 2000, from the editors of Health magazine. Time-Life Books
“Interview with K. Anthony Appiah,” in The Bell Curve Debate: History, Documents, Opinions Russell Jacoby and Naomi Glauberman, Editors, Times Books 1995
“Health Care Reform and Black New Yorkers,” in Facing Triple Jeopardy , the Urban Issues Group, 2004
SELECTED WORKS IN REFEREED PERIODICALS
{June, 2009} Segregation, Civil Rights, and Health Disparities: The Legacy of African American Physicians and Organized Medicine, 1910-1968 Harriet A. Washington; Robert B. Baker, PhD; Ololade Olakanmi; Todd L. Savitt, PhD; Elizabeth A. Jacobs, MD, MPP; Eddie Hoover, MD; Matthew K. Wynia, MD, MPH; J Natl Med Assoc. 2009;101:513-527
{June, 2009} African American Physicians and Organized Medicine, 1846-1910 Robert B. Baker, PhD; Harriet A. Washington; Ololade Olakanmi; Todd L. Savitt, PhD; Elizabeth A. Jacobs, MD, MPP; Eddie Hoover, MD; Matthew K. Wynia, MD, MPH; for the Writing Group on the History of African Americans and the Medical Profession J Natl Med Assoc. 2009;101:501-512
{July, 2008} African American Physicians and Organized Medicine, 1846-1968 Origins of a Racial Divide Robert B. Baker, PhD; Harriet A. Washington; Ololade Olakanmi; Todd L. Savitt, PhD; Elizabeth A. Jacobs, MD, MPP; Eddie Hoover, MD; Matthew K. Wynia, MD, MPH; JAMA. 2008;300(3):306-314
Burning Love: Big Tobacco Takes Aim at LGBT youths. Harriet A. Washington, Am J Public Health, 2002; 92(7):1086-95.
A Medical History of African Americans and the Problem of Race: Beginnings to 1900. (book review) Harriet A. Washington The New England Journal of Medicine Feb 7, 2002 v346 i6 p458(1)
The Plutonium Files: America's Secret Medical Experiments in the Cold War (Book Review) The New England Journal of Medicine 1999; 341: 1941-1942
Lay My Burden Down: Unraveling Suicide and the Mental Health Crisis among African-Americans (Book Review) The New England Journal of Medicine Vol. 343, No. 18
A Science Renga (co-author) Nature Vol. 393 11 June 1998
Mortal Lessons Harriet A. Washington Harvard Public Health Review Fall 1998
Does a trickle down mental health economy meet the needs of African Americans? Harriet A. Washington Minority Health Today Summer 1998
Nutrition: Interpreting the food pyramid for African Americans Harriet A. Washington Minority Health Today Summer 1998
Is the Surgeon General’s Office on the Terminal List? Harvard Journal of Minority Public Health, 1995
African-Americans and AIDS, Harriet A. Washington Harvard AIDS Review Spring 1996
“A dialogue on race” Harriet A. Washington Harvard Public Health Review 1995
“The Back to the Future Diet” Harriet A. Washington Harvard Health Letter, June 1994 v19 n8 p6 (2)
“Health Issues in the Black Community” (book reviews) Harriet A. Washington. The New England Journal of Medicine August 26, 1993 v329 n9 p668(2)
“Adding Antifreeze” Harriet Washington Harvard Health Letter, May93, Vol. 18, Issue 7
“One Day at a Time “Harriet Washington Harvard Health Letter Jun93, Vol. 18, Issue 8
SELECTED INVITED LECTURES AND PRESENTATIONS
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“A New Lease on Life: Patents and the State of US Medicine,” Croton Public Library, Croton-on-Hudson New York, January 29, 2012
“The Commodified Body” Nazareth College of Rochester School of Nursing Pittsford, New York January 26, 2012
“Race, Research and Ethics,” Oleta Cromwelll Day, Smith College Northampton, Massachusetts Thursday, November 10, 2011
“From Medical Apartheid to Deadly Monopolies,” Bowling Green State University Firelands October 25, 2011
“Medical Apartheid,” California State Polytechnic University Pomona, California Wednesday, October 19, 2011
“Who Owns Your Body? Bioethics and the Privatization of Medical Research,” Cambridge Trust Thought Series Presentation, Cambridge, Massachusetts October 12, 2011
“An Evening With Harriet Washington” University of Florida Honors Lecture Series Gainesville Florida UF Auditorium, October 10, 2011
"HeLa Reflected— Honoring the 60th Anniversary of HeLa" Henrietta Lacks Memorial Lecture, Johns Hopkins Medicine, Johns Hopkins Turner Auditorium Baltimore, Maryland October 1, 2011
"Medical Apartheid" Winston-Salem University Campus Theatre Auditorium Winston-Salem, North Carolina September 22, 2011
"Medical Apartheid" Central College Pella, IA September 15, 2011
"An Evening with Harriet Washington" Haggin AuditoriumTransylvania University, Lexington, KY September 11, 2011
Presenter: “Gene Patents, Bayh-Dole, and The High Cost of Living,” The Tarrytown Meetings 2011, Genetics and Society July 24-27 2011
Particiant, The Tarry town Meetings 2010 Genetics and Society Tarrytown NY July 25-28 2010
"Notes on Psychiatric Research Ethics," Race and Research Symposium American Psychiatric Association 164th Annual Meeting May 14-18, 2011 Honolulu, Hawai'i (Oahu)
“The Body Divisible,” Duke University, Atelier in Honor of John Hope Franklin, February 24-26 2011
“Medical Apartheid” University of Oklahoma at Stillwell, February 20, 2011
“What Price Ethical Research? NYU Medical School February 7, 2011
“Medical Apartheid” Grand Valley State, Grand Rapids Michigan February 2 , 2011
“Community Reading Contextual Lecture,” Harriet Washington Grand River Room, Kirkhof Center, Allendale Campus, Allendale, Michigan February 1, 2011
“Tracing the ELSI of Genetic Databases: The American Influence,” Kings College, London, December, 2010
“ Notes on Medicine, Race and Ethics” The American Association of Medical Colleges, November 9, 2010
“ Who Owns the Body? Who Owns Medicine?” Vassar College November 2, 2010
“The Body as Coerced Commodity” presentation at the University of Minnesota Law School International Congress on Human Trafficking, March 18 2010
“American Vision: Martin Luther King and the Ethics of US Healthcare,” Keynote Speech Northwestern University, January 21, 2010
The Body as Coerced Commodity” presentation for University of Minnesota Law School for the 2010 International Congress on Human Trafficking March 18 2010
“A Shared Filter: US-German Cooperation in the Scientific Assessment of Black Evolutionary Status,” African American Civil Rights and Germany in the 20th Century, Deutsches Historisches Institut-Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, NY October 1 - 4, 2009
“Race and Research Directions,” Keynote Speech Boehringer Ingelheim Fall, 2009
“Notes on Race, History and Medical Ethics” Washington University in St. Louis School of Medicine October 2009
“American Apartheid,” Keynote Speech University of North Carolina September 12, 3009
“American Apartheid,” June 20, 2009 Cedars-Sinai Hospital Los Angeles
“American Janus,” Keynote Speech October 29-30, 2008, University of Virginia at Richmond
UCLA Medical School ,May 2009
“Medical Apartheid” Student National Medical Society Baltimore 2009
“Race and Research Ethics” Arthur Risbrook Society, Nassau County, July, 2009
February 10, 2009, Grand Rounds, “Health Care Disparities,” Rush Medical School
February 2, 2009, “"American Apartheid: Race, Fact and Myth in U.S. Medical Research,,” Inaugural lecture, Urban Health Institute, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
“Notes on Race and Research Ethics,” February 2009, U Kentucky at Lexington
October 2008, Visiting Professor Medical Anthropology, UCal Berkeley
October, 2008, Grand Rounds, as Visiting Professor in Health Care Disparities, The Mayo Clinic
“American Medicine, Race and Ethics,” Keynote Speech Shaw University Raleigh South Carolina September 28, 2008
Presentation to Student National Medical Society, Denver July 2008
“American Apartheid” Monroe County Medical Society Rochester New York, April 2008
“Ethics, Justice and History in Medical Research,” Presentation to Mt Sinai Hospital May 24, 2008
“The Inspired Scientist” panel, PEN World Voices Festival April 2008
“The Science of Racism on Two Continents” ( Given in conjunction with the US Holocaust Museum’s “Deadly Medicine” exhibit), Minnesota Science Museum March, 2008
“American Apartheid” University of Minnesota, Minneapolis-St Paul Minnesota March 2008
“Eugenics, the US, and National Socialism:” Maclester College Minneapolis Minnesota March 2008
“History, Research and US Culture” Columbia College, Chicago February 2008
“Medical Apartheid,” University of Rochester Medical Center March 2008
Minnesota Science Museum, March 2008
“American Medicine and the History of Reproductive Health,” Shaking The Foundations Conference Stanford University Law School, October 2007
“The American Medical Association and African American Physicians: Some Historical Notes,” Commission to End Healthcare Disparities, October 2007, Chicago
“American Apartheid,” Keynote Speech Annual meeting, American Society of Bioethics and the Humanities, Washington, D.C., October 18, 2007
“Single-Blinded: A History of Deception, Commodification and Stigma in the Utilization of African American Research Subjects” Readers and Writers Series, American Society of Law and Medicine, Berlin Germany July 25, 2007
"Base Assumptions? ELSI Aspects of DNA Forensics and U.S. Internal Security," XVIth European Conference on Computational Biology Vienna, Austria July 22, 2008
“Healthcare Disparities,” plenary speech, YWCA of the USA Annual Meeting, April 27, 2007
“Medical Research and Race,” Science Fridays, Ira Flatow, April 2007
“Medical Apartheid,” Enoch Pratt Free Library, February 2007
“American Janus: Medical Research and the Perversion of Science,” New York Academy of Science February 15, 2007
“American Apartheid: Medical Research and the Mask of Benevolence,” New York Academy of Medicine January 25, 2007
“History, Race and Medical Research,” PRIMR Annual conference November, 2006
“Osteoporosis: A review” July 10, 2006 National Black Nurses; Association conference, Ft. Lauderdale, Fla
American Legacy Healthcare Panel Discussion on Health Disparities June 2006, New School University
“Race, Crime, and SNPS on Chips: Genetic Databases and U.S. Policy” Brocher Foundation, Geneva, Switzerland, November 2005
American Legacy Healthcare Panel Discussion on Health Disparities June 2005, New School University
Ethnic Databases and Ethical Conundrums: Lessons from Iceland, Division of Medical Ethics, Harvard Medical School, May 2004
“Genes, Schemes, and Icelandic Dreams,” Fall 2002, Harvard Medical School, May 2003
“Hazardous to Our Health” Background paper, National Black Women’s Health Project Conference April, 2003
Presented “Women and Minority Health Issues,” University of Pittsburgh 2002
Presented “Born For Evil: Medicine and the Media Dissect the XYY Debacle,” Genetics Group, Center for Society and Medicine, Columbia School of Physicians and Surgeons September 2001
“Stereotyping the Karyotype: The XYY Aneuploidy” in the conference History of Medical Experimentation in the Twentieth Century, Lübeck, Germany May 2001
Panelist, National Family Planning and Reproductive Health Association Annual (NFPRHA) Conference 2001
Presented "Women and Healthcare Disparities,” University of Pittsburgh Minority Health Leadership Symposium, 2000
Participant, Health Affairs Narrative Medicine Conference Aerlie, Virginia 2000
Presented “Ethical Issues in Human Medical Experimentation,” Stanford U. 1998
Speaker, National Family Planning and Reproductive Health Association
Presented “Ethical Issues in Human Medical Experimentation,” Stanford University, 1997
Presented “Ethnic Aspects of Mental Health Reporting” Urban Public Health Reporting, Washington Journalism Center 1997
Presented “Medical Experimentation with African Americans” University of Florida 1996
Moderator, Career Day ,University of Rochester May 1996
Presented “Ethnic Aspects of Medical Reporting,” Urban Public Health Reporting, Washington Journalism Center 1995, 1996
Speaker, Career Day, University of Rochester May 1995
Panelist, “Science, Technology and the News Media," Harvard School of Public Health 1995
“Medical Journalism and African American Physicians” 1995 National Medical Association Residents’ Section
Presented paper “Profitable Wonders,” John B. and Ida Slaughter Conference on Science Technology and the Black Community, U. Maryland, College Park 1995
Presented “Health Care Reform and Black New Yorkers,” Urban issues Group, 1994
Presented “Health Care Reform and Ethnic Communities: What We Face” Frida Hempel Circle, Temple B’rith Kodesh 1994
Panelist, “A Flailing Drug, a Floundering Market: Case History," Harvard Business School 1993
Press panelist, Public Health Policy Series (3) (with Senator Ted Kennedy) Harvard School of Public Health 1992- 1993
Presented “Novel Approaches to Parkinson’s Disease” Harvard School of Public Health 1992
SELECTED HONORS
2010 Certificate of Appreciation, Vassar College
2010 University of Minnesota Law School Award “In Recognition of Your Outstanding Contributions to the Achievement of Social Justice and Human Rights”
2009 “Award of Merit” from Washington University in St. Louis School of Medicine October 9, 2009
2009 Nassau County Humanitarian Award,
2009 Certificate of Appreciation The Arthur Risbrook Society, Nassau County, July, 2009
2008 National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction for Medical Apartheid: The Dark History of Experimentation with Black Americans from Colonial Times to the Present, Random House March 2008
2007 PEN/Oakland Award for Nonfiction for Medical Apartheid: The Dark History of Experimentation with Black Americans from Colonial Times to the Present, Random House January, 2007
2007 Honor Award for Nonfiction, American Library Association Black Caucus for Medical Apartheid: The Dark History of Experimentation with Black Americans from Colonial Times to the Present, Random House January, 2007
2007 Gustavus Meyers Award for Medical Apartheid: The Dark History of Experimentation with Black Americans from Colonial Times to the Present, Random House January, 2007
Publishers’ Weekly 100 Best Books of 2006 for Medical Apartheid: The Dark History of Experimentation with Black Americans from Colonial Times to the Present, Random House January, 2007
Science Desk Award, Alfred P. Sloan Foundation
The Communicator Award of Excellence
Beacon of Light Award, Congressional Black Caucus Healthcare Braintrust
First Place NYS NABJ Award of Excellence for “Your Gyn Exam”
Second place, Medical Reporting, NYS NABJ Awards
First Place, Investigative Reporting, Unity Awards in Media
First Place, Investigative Reporting, Unity Awards in Media
Appreciation Award, National Medical Association
First Place NABJ Award of Excellence for “Health Care Reform”
Eastman Kodak Brainpower Hall of Fame
Eight (Gannett Company) “Clunie” awards for best headlines
Best of Gannett awards for best headlines
Well Done awards (Gannett Company) for best headlines
Best of Gannett for “Women and Violence” series
NYS Regents Scholarship
Ralph Bunche Scholarship
National Merit Scholarship Finalist
National Achievement Scholarship
Horwitz Scholarship
Fritz Scholarship
Optimates (Latin Honor Society)
Dean’s List
Speaker, First Undergraduate Research Symposium, University of Rochester
SELECTED NON-ACADEMIC WORKS
I have written more than two hundred articles on medicine and science for popular periodicals including USA Today, The Atlanta Journal and Constitution, The Baltimore Sun, The New York Times Syndicate, Health, Consumer Reports, Essence, Psychology Today and American Legacy.
I have also written and edited medical-education brochure and videotapes for clients such as The American Academy of Allergy, Asthma & Immunology (AAAAI), The American Lung Association, the National Medical Association, Ebony, American Legacy and Black Enterprise.These non-academic publications include:
“Slouching Toward Nuremberg: The Erosion of Informed Consent,” New Scientist (publication pending) February, 2012
The "Black" Drug That Isn't (Op-Ed) by Harriet A. Washington New America Media 23 June 2011
“Deadly Monopolies: The Shocking Corporate Takeover of Life Itself and the Conseqences for Your Health and Our Medical Future (book excerpt),” Huffington Post July 14, 2010
“Flacking for Big Pharma: Drugmakers Don’t Just Compromise Doctors: They Also Undermine the Top Medical Journals and Skew the Findings of Medical Research,” cover story, The American Scholar Summer 2011
“The Panic Virus” (book review) January-February 2011 Columbia Journalism Review
“Prudence and the Pill: Testing Thalidomide in the Global South,” December 13th, 2010 Biopolitical Times guest blog,
“Gene Patenting Produces Profits, Not Cures,” Huffington Post July 14, 2010
“Apology Shines Light on Racial Schism in Medicine” The New York Times July 29, 2008
“Why Africa Fears Western Medicine,” New York Times Op-Ed July 2007
“Ask the Doctor,” New York Times Op-Ed June, 2007
“Profitable Wonders: Medical Research and African Americans,” Times of London Sunday Magazine (October, 2006
“Human Guinea Pigs” Harriet A. Washington (book chapter) in The Best Of Emerge (One World) 2003
“When A Good Diet Isn’t Enough” Harriet A. Washington and Susan Freinkel (book chapter) Women’s Health Guide 2000 Time-Life Books (New York) 1999
“Why a Good Diet Isn’t Enough” Harriet A. Washington (book chapter) in The Healing Power of Superfoods Time-Life Books (New York) 1999
“The Vitamin Revolution” (book chapter) in The 10 Best Health Stories of 1998 Time-Life Books (New York) 1998
Straightening Out ‘The Bell Curve,’ Discussion with Anthony L. Appiah (book chapter) in The Bell Curve Debate, Times Books 1995
“A False Sense of Viral Security: AIDS, HCV and African Americans, “American Legacy, Winter 2004
“Gene Blues?” Harriet A. Washington Essence September, 2001
“The Infection Connection” (book chapter) in Deviant Behavior, Fourth Edition, Lawrence M. Salinger, Arkansas State University, Annual Editions 2000, 2001,2002
Health supplements, 2000, 2001 Harriet A. Washington Black Enterprise Magazine
“Health Care Goes to Washington,” Harriet A. Washington Essence May, 2000
“To Our Health!” Harriet A. Washington Essence May 2000
“Your Gyn Visit: What You Don't Know Can Hurt You,” Harriet A. Washington. Essence June 1999 v30 i2 p83.
“The Infection Connection,” Harriet A. Washington July/August 1999 Psychology Today
Does a trickle down mental health economy meet the needs of African Americans? Harriet A. Washington Minority Health Today Summer 1998
Nutrition: Interpreting the food pyramid for African Americans Harriet A. Washington Minority Health Today Summer 1998
“A Premature Game of Kiss and Tell,” By Harriet A. Washington Emerge 1998
“Piece of the Genetic Puzzle Is Left Out,” Harriet A. Washington Emerge May 1998
“BDE” (vitamin B, D, and E are important for good health) Harriet A. Washington. Health Sept 1998
Experimenting on defenseless children (column) Emerge 1998
“Reading Studies In Black And White,” Harriet A. Washington Emerge September 1998 p 25
“Infant deaths still a crisis and a mystery,” Harriet A. Washington Emerge May 1998 v9 n7 p30 (1)
“Political realities hit medical school rolls” (Column) Harriet A. Washington. Emerge March 1998 v9 n5 p22 (1)
“Sex, lies and disease rates” (sexually transmitted diseases in African-Americans)(Column) Harriet A. Washington Emerge Dec-Jan 1997 v9 n3 p30 (1)
“Mental health care can help or harm” (mental diagnoses and African Americans) Harriet A. Washington Emerge Nov 1997 v9 n2 p30 (1)
“AIDS and the high cost of living” (cost of protease inhibitors prohibitive to many African Americans Harriet A. Washington Emerge July-August 1997 v8 n9 p28(1)
“The Color of Mercy” Harriet A. Washington Emerge 1997
“Escape,” Harriet A. Washington Heart & Soul, Oct/Nov97
“Doubts linger about prostate screenings,” Harriet A. Washington
Emerge Feb 1997 v8 n4 p28(1)
“What you must know about diabetes,” Harriet A. Washington Heart & Soul, Dec96/Jan97
Interviews with Surviving Members of Tuskegee Syphilis Study Ad Hoc Panel, 1996 and 2001 Harriet A. Washington (Archived with The National Center for Bioethics in Healthcare Research)
“What You Should Know About Clinical Trials” (patient brochure and physician talking points) Harriet A. Washington for the National Medical Association
“Military experiments and Gulf War Syndrome,” Harriet A. Washington.
Emerge Dec 1996 v8 n3 p28 (1)
“Sharing the wealth can benefit public health; wide gaps between the haves and have-everyone,” (Column) Harriet A. Washington.
Emerge Nov 1996 v8 n2 p28 (1)
Sharing the wealth can benefit public health: wide gaps between the haves and have harm everyone (Column) Harriet A. Washington.
Emerge Nov 1996 v8 n2 p28 (1)
Breast cancer and you (breast cancer in African American women) Harriet Washington Essence Oct 1996 v27 n6 p28 (4)
Fight back against fibroids. Harriet A. Washington Heart & Soul, Feb/Mar96)
Taking the risk out of birth control Harriet A. Washington Heart & Soul, Apr/May96
Black doctors fight big firms for Medicaid dollars: health care is being defined by the “green screen”(Column) Harriet A. Washington.
Emerge July-August 1996 v7 n9 p26 (1)
A prescription for disorder: 'It is easy to reach for a pill to control behavior.' (attention deficiency disorder - ADD- or attention deficit hyperactivity disorder - ADHD) Harriet A. Washington Emerge June 1996 v7 n8 p22 (1)
The polio vaccine debate (Nurses Association opposes new vaccine with different immunization schedule)(Column) Harriet A. Washington.
Emerge Feb 1996 v7 n4 p24 (1)
Beyond the hype for the disease of the month (Black women and death from breast cancer) Harriet A. Washington Emerge Dec 1 1995
Review of Black Woman’s Guide to Good Health, Harriet A. Washington Emerge 1995
American Lung Association Report, Minority Supplement 1995 995 v7 n3 p20 (1)
Out of Africa: Possibly, an AIDS cure Harriet A. Washington Emerge Nov 1995 v7 n2 p22 (2)
Managing men's health (African American men should have periodical health checks) Harriet A. Washington Emerge Oct 1995 v7 n1 p16(1)
Emergency! How to Deal with the Real ER Harriet A. Washington Heart & Soul 09-30-95 p. 78
The Heart and Soul Informer: Harriet A. Washington answers your health questions (column) (10 columns between 1992-1994)
Harvesting Organs from Silence by Harriet A. Washington Emerge Nov 1995 v7 n2 p22 (2)
Kenyan AIDS vaccine clues? Atlanta Journal-Constitution 1995 Harriet A. Washington.
Black women and breast cancer Harriet A. Washington Heart & Soul, Apr/May95)
Do you know your STD's? Harriet A. Washington. Heart & Soul, Oct/Nov95
People treated like `laboratory rats' Harriet A. Washington Weekly Journal (London) 1995
Sweet news: help for diabetics. (new drug metformin) Harriet A. Washington Emerge Sept 1995 v6 n10 p14 (1)
Knowing stroke's warning signs can save a life. Harriet A. Washington Emerge June 1995 v6 n8 p17(1)
TB attack also hits basic human rights. (some tuberculosis patients locked up) (Column) Harriet A. Washington Emerge May 1995 v6 n7 p16 (1)
Sickle-cell drug is a miracle for a lucky few: hydroxyurea benefits only 15 percent of those with sickle-cell anemia. Harriet A. Washington Emerge March 18, 1995 v59 n13 p19(1)
Tuskegee Experiment Was But One Medical Study That Exploited African-Americans Harriet A. Washington The Sun (Baltimore) March 19, 1995
What men don't know about cancer can kill them. (prostate cancer and African American men) Harriet A. Washington Emerge Oct 1994 v6 n1 p18 (1)
Human guinea pigs. (use of African Americans in medical experiments)(includes related articles) (Cover Story) Harriet A. Washington Emerge Oct 1994 v6 n1 p24 (12)
Henrietta Lacks: an Unsung Hero Emerge October 1994
Norplant's reproductive shackles; contraception as sentencing option is no real choice. Harriet A. Washington The Los Angeles Daily Journal Sept 13, 1994 v107 n175 p6
Toxic Policies (environmental health crisis escalates) Harriet A. Washington 1Emerge 1994 p 22
For some, Norplant is a mandatory miracle. Harriet A. Washington Emerge Sept 1994 v5 n11 p18 (1)
Many factors cut blacks out of transplant miracles. (organ transplants) (Vital Signs) Harriet A. Washington Emerge April 1994 v5 n7 p24(1)
Rationing the right to survive. (Examining Health Care Reform, part 2) Harriet A. Washington Emerge Feb 1994 v5 n5 p 70(4)
Managed co-operation: a medical model in Rochester, N.Y., may hold clues to caring for the poor. (Examining Health Care Reform, part 2) Harriet A. Washington Emerge Feb 1994 v5 n5 p 74(4)
An ounce of prevention: targeting prevention and research will help, but will it be enough for African-Americans? (Examining Health Care Reform, part 2) Harriet A. Washington. Emerge Feb 1994 v5 n5 p 78(3)
Examining health care reform: cost and access are key elements to Black America's health. (Cover Story) Harriet A. Washington Emerge Dec1993-Jan 1994 v5 n4 p32(6)
The Use and Abuse of Science ( review of The Evolution of Racism: Human Differences and the Use and Abuse of Science) Emerge Sept 1994
Smoking’s unfiltered message is deadly for children Harriet A. Washington Emerge July 1994
The Bell Curve Rings of Racism (column) Emerge 1994
Organ donors: Answering The Call For Help Harriet A. Washington Emerge
Hospitals Test Medicine’s Moral Responsibility Harriet A. Washington Emerge
Medicine’s Mainstream Overlooks Blacks Harriet A. Washington Emerge
Distorting The Prism Of Science (Review of The Bell Curve) Emerge 1994
Bloody Rites (the Circumcision Debate) Emerge September 1996
Sleep (cover story) Democrat and Chronicle Health Tab Fall 1993
Genius (Richard Feynman profile) Democrat and Chronicle
Head of the Class (review of James Gleick’s Genius) Democrat and Chronicle 1993
You can train your brain to ease nightmares Harriet Washington USA TODAY June 1, 1992
Slimming with diet and light workout Mike Snider and Harriet A. Washington USA TODAY May 12, 1992
INTERVIEWED/PROFILED IN
I have been interviewed or profiled by approximately 75 broadcast programs, including
CSPAN, Democracy Now, Leonard Lopate Show Judith Regan, New York, Chicago and
NPR stations in New York, Chicago and Washington, D.C. I have also given radio interviews in South Africa, Berlin, Ireland, Australia, Israel, India and Vienna media; my numerous television appearances include CNN, Democracy Now, Book TV, Dylan Ratigan. A selection is below:
History News Network “Deadly Monopolies” Robin Lindley January 20, 2011
“Big Profits for Big Pharma?” The Dylan Ratigan Show MSNBC January 4, 2012
“Interview with Harriet Washington” Irish Radio, January 2012
“Biological Shock Treatment: A Discussion with ‘Deadly Monopolies’Author Harriet A. Washington,” Michael Charles Tobias Forbes December 2011
“Interview with Harriet Washington” Australian public radio, December 2011
Sunday Morning Radio New Zealand “Harriet Washington: the corporate Takeover of Life itself” December 18 2011
“Conversations with Great Minds— Harriet Washington” The Big Picture Thom Hartmann December 5, 2011
“Are Profits Driving Medical Research?” The Takeaway, NPR October 4, 2011
Interview With Harriet A. Washington on 'Deadly Monopolies’: The corporate takeover of our medical future, by Julia M. Klein AARP Bulletin November 7, 2011
“Patent Expires For Popular Drug Lipitor” The Takeaway, NPR November 30, 2011
“Deadly Monopolies: How Firms Are Taking over Life Itself” October 31, Democracy Now
“Deadly Monopolies Patenting the Human Body,” Fresh Air October 24, 2011
“Patenting the Human Body” Leonard Lopate Show , NPR October 7, 2011
Micheal Eric Dyson Show Deadly Monopolies October 5, 2011
“One to One: Medical Research Ethics” Sheryl McCarthy, CUNY City University Television, 2008
“The History of the Black-White Divide in American Medicine,” Interview with Alison Cuddy of “Eight Forty-Eight,” July 16, 2008
CSPAN BookTV “Medical Apartheid,” presentation at the Enoch Pratt Free Library, February 2007
"Medical Apartheid tracks History of Abuses" NPR Farai Chideya January 29, 2007
NPR Apology AMA 2008
“Black Americans and Medicine,” Harriet Washington, Visiting Scholar at DePaul College of Law and Sam Harper, research fellow, Department of Epidemiology, McGill University, NPR March 23, 2007
"Medical Apartheid: The Dark History of Medical Experimentation on Black Americans from Colonial Times to the Present." Democracy Now January 19, 2007
History News Network “Medical Experimentation on Black Americans from Colonial Times to the Present” Robin Lindley May 9, 2007
“Avandia Scare Continues to Raise Concerns” May 31, 2007
One on One with Harriet Washington NPR Chicago ( WBEZ) October 17, 2007
SELECTED DISCUSSIONS/REVIEWS OF MY WORK
Medical Apartheid was favorably reviewed by approximately four dozen newspaper and journals including The New York Times, Washington Post, Newsweek, San Francisco Chronicle, the Economist, Mother Jones, Social History of Medicine the Journal of The National Medical Association and Psychiatric Services the journal of the American Psychiatric Association. A selection is below:
Patrik Bass “2012 Resolutions” (Discussion of Deadly Monopolies) Essence January 2012
“Deadly Monopolies: The Shocking Corporate Takeover of Life Itself and the Consequences for Your Health and Our Medical Future,” Kirkus starred review, October 2011
“Deadly Monopolies: The Shocking Corporate Takeover of Life Itself and the Consequences for Your Health and Our Medical Future,” Booklist starred review October 2011
“Deadly Monopolies: The Shocking Corporate Takeover of Life Itself and the Consequences for Your Health and Our Medical Future, “ Library Journal starred review October 2011
“Deadly Monopolies: The Shocking Corporate Takeover of Life Itself and the Consequences for Your Health and Our Medical Future,” Publishers Weekly October 2011
“Deadly Monopolies: The Shocking Corporate Takeover of Life Itself and the Consequences for Your Health and Our Medical Future,” (book review) American Spectator November 2011
“Flacking for Big Pharma: Drugmakers don't just compromise doctors. They also undermine top medical journals and skew research” by Harriet A Washington (excerpted) at , October 2011
“Deadly Monopolies by H. A. Washington,” (book review) Jon Hankins Segnalazioni, Fondazione Gianno Bassetti (Milan) , December 2011
“Shilling for Big Pharma: How the pharmaceutical industry buys good press and corrupts medical journals,” Rolling Stone Side Effects by Christopher Lane June 5, 2011
Psychology Today “How Drug Companies Corrupt Medical Journals,” by Julian Brookes June 6, 2011
“African American Civil Rights and Germany in the 20th Century,” (review) S. Marina Jones History News Network February 10, 2010
“Medical Apartheid” (book review) Jonathan Miller, Psychiatric Services 2008
“Medical Apartheid” (book review) Marius Turda, Social History of Medicine Oxford Brookes 2008
Debat: International Kommentar: Derfor Frygter Afrikanere Vestlige Laeger Og August 4, 2007
“Medical Apartheid” (book review) Allison Samuels Newsweek 2007
“Unequal Treatment: How African Americans Have Often Been the Unwitting Victims of Medical Experiments,” (book review) by Alondra Nelson Washington Post February 9, 2007
“Medical Apartheid” (book review) Denise Grady New York Times 2007
“Medical Apartheid” (book review) Los Angeles Times 2007
“Medical Apartheid” (book review) Podcast David Corcoran New York Times 2007
Debat: International Kommentar: Derfor Frygter Afrikanere Vestlige Laeger Og August 4, 2007
Slaves of American Medicine,” Sunday Times of London 2006
“Reporting Critical Issues: Harriet Washington Sets The Record Straight On Health Care News,” Vincent F.A. Golphin About Time Magazine 1997
Wxxi-TV (PBS affiliate) “So you want to be … a journalist?” (televised profile of Harriet Washington) Summer 1992
“The Halls of Academe” (Gannett journalists win fellowships) The Gannetteer Summer1993
“Therapy/Noncompliance TB Attacks Human Rights,” Writes Commentator TB WEEKLY October 25, 1995
QUOTED IN PUBLICATIONS
“The Golden Years, Polished With Surgery,” by Abby Ellin in the New York Times August 8, 2011
“Emergency trials of blood substitutes skirt ethical questions,” by Andrea Anderson, Nature Medicine 13, 652 (2007)
”Minority-heavy cities test blood substitute,” by Steve Neavling Detroit Free Press, December 23, 2007
“Publishers Discover African American Readers,” The Buffalo News Dawn Bracely, 2002
“Students' stories prompt discussions of real-life experiences in the worlds of medicine and biomedical research,” Stanford Medicine Constance Chen Volume 16 Number 4, SUMMER 1999
“Scrutinizing science through fiction can be good entertainment “Chemical and Engineering News Elizabeth Wilson February 25 1998
KOIN-TV I filmed half a dozen segments in which I discuss my Consumer Reports analyses of fax machines, camcorders, various health stories and anti-spamming techniques 1998-1999
“Legislator hopes to penalize 'spammers'” Anna M. Tinsley Scripps Howard/Austin American Statesman 1998
“A Deadly Gap: Doctors Seek Reasons For Blacks' Disease Rate and Shorter Life Span,” The Dallas Morning News Laura Beil 10-20-1996
“Harvard Publishes New Minority Health Journal,” Public Health Reports Anonymous Jan/Feb 1996
“Emerge Wins Prizes, Fights For Life,” Gannett News Service Darrell Dawsey 08-29-1994
SELECTED PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS
New York Academy of Medicine
New York Academy of Science
Editorial Board, New Press
Editorial Board, American Legacy magazine
Association of Health Care Journalists
Editorial Reviewer, Journal of the National Medical Association
Board, DePaul University’s Health Law Institute
Board, DePaul’s College of Law Center for the Study of Race & Bioethics.
Board of Directors, The Ferre Institute (Immediate Past President)
Board of Directors, YWCA of the Genesee Valley (Chair, Housing Committee)
Board of Directors, EPIC
School Health Advisory Committee, Monroe County Board of Health
Amnesty International
American Association of History
American Society of Bioethics
Allen Room, New York Public Library
Wertheim Room, New York Public Library
Chair, Minority Affairs, Committee, Gannett Rochester Newspapers
Assistant Director, Future Journalists’ Workshop (Rochester, NY)
National Association of Science Writers
National Association of Black Journalists
Volunteer ,The American Heart Association
Volunteer, Highland Hospital, Monroe Community Hospital
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