Faculty and Staff

Evan M. Melhado

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Urbana, Illinois  61801
melhado@uiuc.edu

Department of History 
309 Gregory Hall, MC-466     
810 South Wright Street          
217-244-7122; fax: 217-333-2297

Positions, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Associate Professor Department of History (College of Liberal Arts and Sciences)
Associate Professor and Head Medical Humanities & Social Sciences Program (College of Medicine)

Education

Ph.D. History of Science  Princeton University 1977
M.A. History Princeton University 1970
B.S. Chemistry Carnegie-Mellon University 1967

Recent Publications

“Health Planning in the United States and the Decline of Public-interest Policymaking,” in press, Milbank Quarterly.
“Economic Theory, Economists, and the Formulation of Public Policy,” Journal of Health Politics, Policy, and Law, February, 2000, 25,i:233-256.
“Innovation and Public Accountability in Clinical Research,” Milbank Quarterly, 1999, 17,i:111-172.
“Economists, Public Provision, and the Market: Changing Values in Policy Debate,” Journal of Health Politics, Policy, and Law, April, 1998, 23,ii:215-263.

Work in progress

“Competition in American Health Care: Anatomy of a Policy Shift.”Book manuscript in preparation.  Prof. Melhado enjoyed research support for this project from the UI campus Research Board, which granted him Humanities Released Time for the fall term, 2005, and a graduate research assistant for the academic year 2005/06.

Emphasis of current research

American medicine, health care, health policy, and public health since the late-19th century.

Teaching

American Public Health and Health Policy
History of Western Medicine
Science in Western Civilization, I