Robert Aronowitz

Robert Aronowitz, a scholar of the history of 20th-century disease, epidemiology, and population health, is the author of three books and the recipient of many awards and honors, including election to the National Academy of Medicine and, most recently, a Guggenheim fellowship. Aronowitz has also made significant contributions to health policy and has a strong record of public outreach, including serving on the Advisory Boards of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Clinical Scholars Program and the Bates Center for History of Nursing, as well as the Executive Board of the Leonard Davis Institute. He has played important leadership roles at Penn, which have included serving as Department Chair near-continuously since 2012 and helping to build the popular Health and Societies undergraduate major, as well as starting and co-directing the Penn site of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Health and Society Scholars Program.