Faculty and Staff
Evan M. Melhado
Associate Professor of History, and Medical Humanities and Social Sciences program
Prof. Evan M. Melhado is interested in the history of American public health, health care, and health care policy, especially since the late-nineteenth century. Representative publications include “Innovation and Public Accountability in Clinical Research,” Milbank Quarterly, 1999 17(1):111-172, “Economic Theory, Economists, and the Formulation of Public Policy,” Journal of Health Politics, Policy, and Law, 2000 25(1):233-256; and “Health Planning in the United States and the Decline of Public-interest Policymaking,” Milbank Quarterly, 2006 84(2):359-439. Professor Melhado received his doctorate in history, with specialization in history of science, from Princeton University in 1977.