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