Vanessa Northington Gamble
Vanessa Northington Gamble (born 1953) is a physician who chaired the Tuskegee Syphilis Study Legacy Committee in 1997.[1]
Early life and education
Born in West Philadelphia, Gamble was primarily raised by her maternal grandmother. She attended Philadelphia High School for Girls and graduated in 1970, then studied medical sociology and biology at Hampshire College, graduating with her bachelor's degree in 1974. Gamble then attended medical school and graduate school at the University of Pennsylvania, earning her M.D. in 1983 and her Ph.D. in the history and sociology of science in 1987. She completed her graduate medical education (residency) at the University of Massachusetts.[1]
Career
Gamble began her career with appointments at the Harvard School of Public Health, Hampshire College, and the University of Massachusetts. In 1989, she was appointed an associate professor at the University of Wisconsin, where she taught courses on the intersection of race and public health in the United States. At the University of Wisconsin Medical School, she founded and was director of its Center for the Study of Race and Ethnicity. The Tuskegee Syphilis Study, an unethical, racist study of long-term syphilis infection in black men, was investigated in 1997 by a committee chaired by Gamble. This committee pushed then-President Bill Clinton to issue a formal apology on behalf of the government.[1] She left the University of Wisconsin in 2000, and moved to Tuskegee University, where she led the first National Bioethics Center to be established at a historically black university.[2] Beginning in 2003, Gamble was a professor at Johns Hopkins University in the school of public health.[1] As of 2016, she is a professor of medical humanities at George Washington University, where she began teaching in 2007.[3][4]
Gamble has also worked with research organizations, including the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Institute of Medicine, National Institutes of Health, and the American Foundation for AIDS Research.[1]
Publications
- "Standardizing return of participant results"[5]
- "Outstanding Services to Negro Health": Dr. Dorothy Boulding Ferebee, Dr. Virginia M. Alexander, and Black Women Physicians' Public Health Activism.[6]
- "The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks reconsidered."[7]
- "No struggle, no fight, no court battle": the 1948 desegregation of the University of Arkansas School of Medicine.[8]
- "There wasn't a lot of comforts in those days:" African Americans, public health, and the 1918 influenza epidemic.[9]
- "Midian Othello Bousfield: advocate for the medical and public health concerns of Black Americans."[10]
- "Standing on shoulders."[11]
- "NIH consensus development statement on hydroxyurea treatment for sickle cell disease."[12]
- "National Institutes of Health Consensus Development Conference statement: hydroxyurea treatment for sickle cell disease."[13]
- "Introduction to special issue: advancing the ethics of community-based participatory research."[14]
- "Mistrust among minorities and the trustworthiness of medicine."[15]
- "U.S. policy on health inequities: the interplay of politics and research."[16]
- "Subcutaneous scars." Health Affairs 19, no. 1 (January/February 2000): 164-169.[17]
- "Under the shadow of Tuskegee: African Americans and health care." American Journal of Public Health 87, no. 11 (1997): 1773-1778.[18]
- "Making a Place for Ourselves: The Black Hospital Movement, 1920-1945". New York: Oxford University Press, 1993.[19]
- The “boom and bust phenomenon”: the hopes, dreams, and broken promises of the contraceptive revolution[20]
Honors and awards
- Head, Association of American Medical Colleges Division of Community and Minority Programs (1999)
- Member, National Academy of Medicine (2005)
- University Professor, George Washington University (2007)
References
- "Changing the Face of Medicine | Dr. Vanessa Northington Gamble". www.nlm.nih.gov. Retrieved 2016-03-02.
- "Vanessa Northington Gamble | Robert Wood Johnson Foundation - Investigator Awards in Health Policy Research". www.investigatorawards.org. Retrieved 2016-03-02.
- "Vanessa Northington Gamble | The Department of American Studies | The George Washington University | The George Washington University". americanstudies.columbian.gwu.edu. Retrieved 2016-03-02.
- "ByGeorge!". www.gwu.edu. Retrieved 2016-03-02.
- Botkin, Jeffrey R.; Appelbaum, Paul S.; Bakken, Suzanne; Brown, Chester; Burke, Wylie; Fabsitz, Richard; Gamble, Vanessa Northington; Gonsalves, Gregg; Kost, Rhonda (16 November 2018). "Standardizing return of participant results". Science. 362 (6416): 759–760. doi:10.1126/science.aav8095. ISSN 1095-9203. PMID 30442797.
- Gamble, Vanessa Northington (August 2016). ""Outstanding Services to Negro Health": Dr. Dorothy Boulding Ferebee, Dr. Virginia M. Alexander, and Black Women Physicians' Public Health Activism". American Journal of Public Health. 106 (8): 1397–1404. doi:10.2105/AJPH.2016.303252. ISSN 1541-0048. PMC 4940657. PMID 27310348.
- Gamble, Vanessa Northington (January 2014). "The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks reconsidered". The Hastings Center Report. 44 (1): 1p following 48. doi:10.1002/hast.239. ISSN 0093-0334. PMID 24408602.
- Gamble, Vanessa Northington (July 2013). ""No struggle, no fight, no court battle": the 1948 desegregation of the University of Arkansas School of Medicine". Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences. 68 (3): 377–415. doi:10.1093/jhmas/jrs025. ISSN 1468-4373. PMID 22416058.
- Gamble, Vanessa Northington (2010). ""There Wasn't a Lot of Comforts in Those Days:" African Americans, Public Health, and the 1918 Influenza Epidemic". Public Health Reports. 125 (Suppl 3): 114–122. doi:10.1177/00333549101250S314. ISSN 0033-3549. PMC 2862340. PMID 20568573.
- Gamble, Vanessa Northington; Brown, Theodore M. (July 2009). "Midian Othello Bousfield: Advocate for the Medical and Public Health Concerns of Black Americans". American Journal of Public Health. 99 (7): 1186. doi:10.2105/AJPH.2009.163709. ISSN 0090-0036. PMC 2696648. PMID 19443811.
- Gamble, Vanessa Northington (2009-02-01). "Standing on Shoulders". American Journal of Public Health. 99 (2): 200. doi:10.2105/AJPH.2008.156026. ISSN 0090-0036. PMC 2622789. PMID 19141598.
- Brawley, Otis W.; Cornelius, Llewellyn J.; Edwards, Linda R.; Gamble, Vanessa Northington; Green, Bettye L.; Inturrisi, Charles E.; James, Andra H.; Laraque, Danielle; Mendez, Magda H. (27–29 February 2008). "NIH consensus development statement on hydroxyurea treatment for sickle cell disease". NIH Consensus and State-of-the-science Statements. 25 (1): 1–30. ISSN 1553-0779. PMID 18309362.
- Brawley, Otis W. (2008-06-17). "National Institutes of Health Consensus Development Conference Statement: Hydroxyurea Treatment for Sickle Cell Disease". Annals of Internal Medicine. 148 (12): 932–8. doi:10.7326/0003-4819-148-12-200806170-00220. ISSN 0003-4819. PMID 18458271.
- Shore, Nancy; Wong, Kristine A.; Seifer, Sarena D.; Grignon, Jessica; Gamble, Vanessa Northington (June 2008). "Introduction to Special Issue: Advancing the Ethics of Community-Based Participatory Research". Journal of Empirical Research on Human Research Ethics. 3 (2): 1–4. doi:10.1525/jer.2008.3.2.1. ISSN 1556-2646. PMID 19385741.
- Wynia, Matthew K; Gamble, Vanessa Northington (May 2006). "Mistrust among Minorities and the Trustworthiness of Medicine". PLOS Medicine. 3 (5): e244. doi:10.1371/journal.pmed.0030244. ISSN 1549-1277. PMC 1468474. PMID 16719549.
- Stone, Deborah; Gamble, Vanessa Northington (2006-02-01). "U.s. Policy on Health Inequities: The Interplay of Politics and Research". Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law. 31 (1): 93–126. doi:10.1215/03616878-31-1-93. ISSN 0361-6878. PMID 16484670.
- Gamble, Vanessa Northington (2000-01-01). "Subcutaneous Scars". Health Affairs. 19 (1): 164–169. doi:10.1377/hlthaff.19.1.164. ISSN 0278-2715. PMID 10645083.
- Gamble, V N (1997-11-01). "Under the shadow of Tuskegee: African Americans and health care". American Journal of Public Health. 87 (11): 1773–1778. doi:10.2105/AJPH.87.11.1773. ISSN 0090-0036. PMC 1381160. PMID 9366634.
- Gamble, Vanessa Northington (1995-06-15). Making a Place for Ourselves: The Black Hospital Movement, 1920–1945. Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195078893.001.0001. ISBN 9780199853762.
- "ScienceDirect". www.sciencedirect.com. Retrieved 2019-04-18.