David Rosner

David Rosner is the Ronald H. Lauterstein Professor Emeritus of Sociomedical Sciences and professor of history at Columbia University. He is also an elected member of the National Academy of Medicine. In addition to numerous grants, he has been a Guggenheim Fellow, a recipient of a Robert Wood Johnson Investigator Award, a National Endowment for the Humanities Fellow, and a Josiah Macy Fellow. He and Gerald Markowitz are coauthors on ten books, including Deceit and Denial: The Deadly Politics of Industrial Pollution (University of California Press/Milbank, 2002; 2013) and Lead Wars: The Politics of Science and the Fate of America’s Children (University of California Press/Milbank, 2013). Their most recent book, Building the Worlds that Kill Us: Disease, Death, and Inequality in American History (Columbia University Press, 2024) was named a Best Book of 2024 by Smithsonian Magazine and a Distinguished Book of 2025 by Columbia University Press. He also testifies for plaintiffs in lawsuits on industrial pollution and occupational disease.