Dra. Annette B. Ramírez de Arellano
Dra. Annette B. Ramírez de Arellano, Washington, DC
ANNETTE B. RAMIREZ DE ARELLANO
EDUCATION:
Dr.P.H Columbia University (Health policy)
M.C.H.P. University of Puerto Rico (Health planning)
M.C.P Yale University (City planning)
A.B. Mt. Holyoke College (Political science)
EMPLOYMENT HISTORY:
February 2006-present | Health Researcher, Health Research Group, Public Citizen. Researcher on health service issues for national advocacy organization in Washington, DC. |
November 2003 - present | Independent researcher in the history and practice of public health, under the auspices of the Rockefeller Archive Center, Rockefeller University; the Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University; and the University of Puerto Rico. |
February 1999 - October 2003 | Program Director, W.K. Kellogg Foundation Fellowship in Health Policy Research, National Medical Fellowships, Inc. Directed program to create a cadre of health policy researchers from underserved minority groups by supporting their doctoral studies in eight graduate and professional schools. Responsible for marketing the program, recruiting candidates and overseeing their selection, monitoring and facilitating students' progress along the doctoral track, planning and convening an annual symposium, and evaluating and reporting on program processes and outcomes. |
March 1995 - October 1997 | Executive Director, Hispanic AIDS Forum, Inc. Responsible for the overall direction, development, and management of a multi-site community-based AIDS service organization providing outreach, prevention education, training and case management services to Latinos in New York City. |
September 1992-February 1995 | Consultant to private and public organizations at the federal, state and local levels, including the National Cancer Institute, the New York State Department of Health, the New York City Department of Health, Gay Men's Health Crisis, and the Commonwealth Fund's Commission on Women's Health. |
July 1986-August 1992 | Associate Dean and Associate Professor, School of Health Sciences, Hunter College, City University of New York. Responsible for student recruitment into programs in seven disciplines enrolling approximately 500 full-time students; advising students; enforcing academic rules and policies; planning campus events; and allocating tuition waivers. Faculty in the Community Health Education Program and the Hunter/Mt. Sinai Geriatric Education Center. Taught courses in International Health, Women and Development. |
December 1977-June 1983 | Consultant to the Secretary of Health, Puerto Rico Department of Health. Drafted the State Health Plan and annual implementation plans; trained staff in the areas of management, planning, and evaluation. Wrote position papers and speeches, analyzed legislation, carried out program evaluations, and gathered data and prepared technical reports on health-related issues. |
January-September 1976 | Assistant Professor, Department of Administration of Community Health Services, School of Public Health, Medical Sciences Campus, University of Puerto Rico. Taught health planning, comparative health systems. |
January-June 1975 | Consultant, Design and Implementation of an Information System for the Department of Health, Estudios Sociales y de Salud, Inc. Participated in the identification of data needs and the conceptual design of a management information system for a health department with a staff of 20,000 employees serving a population of 3 million. |
January 1973-December 1975 | Lecturer, School of Public Health, Medical Sciences Campus, University of Puerto Rico. Taught courses in medical care organization. |
March 1973-June 1974 | Assistant Executive Director, Puerto Rico Commission on Universal Health Insurance. Monitored the preparation of technical reports and participated in the drafting of a plan for a health services entitlement scheme for Puerto Rico. |
July 1972-February 1973 | Director, Health Services Section, Puerto Rico Regional Medical Program, Medical Sciences Campus, University of Puerto Rico. |
July 1969-June 1971 | Consultant, Bureau of Master Planning, Puerto Rico Planning Board. Directed the preparation of a master plan for a five-municipality region. |
FELLOWSHIPS, GRANTS, AWARDS:
Research grant, Rockefeller Archive Center, Rockefeller University, 2003
Outstanding Alumni Award, University of Puerto Rico School of Public Health, 1995
Grant, Social Science Research Council, 1992
Grant, Pluralism and Diversity Fund, Hunter College, 1992
Research grant, Rockefeller Archive Center, Rockefeller University, 1990
Doctorate conferred with distinction, Columbia University, 1986
Research grant, Rockefeller Archive Center, Rockefeller University, 1983
Research and travel grant, Sarah B. Gamble Trust, 1979
Grant for Manuscript Preparation, Book Program, Commonwealth Fund (with Guillermo Arbona and Conrad Seipp), 1978-79
INTRE award for Best Community Service Radio Program (with Catín Ballesteros and Norma Pérez), 1979
Public Health Service fellowship for graduate study in public health, 1971-72
O.A.S. fellowship for summer course on housing, 1970
PROFESSIONAL AND SERVICE AFFILIATIONS:
Docent, National Museum of African Art, Smithsonian Institution, 2005- present
Juror, CityVision Project, National Building Museum, 2004-5
Member, Advisory Committee, Kellogg Post-Doctoral Program in Health Disparities Research, Center for the Advancement of Health, 2003-2004
Member, Advisory Board, Instituto de Historia de las Ciencias de la Salud, Graduate School of Public Health, University of Puerto Rico Medical Sciences Campus, 2003-present
Chair, Selection Committee for Health Awards, Hispanic Heritage Youth Awards, Washington, DC area, 2003-present
Member, Advisory Committee, Clinical Research Training Program, Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University (1998 - 2005)
Member, Advisory Committee, Sch. of Health Professions, Universidad del Turabo, PR (1999 - 01)
Member, Executive Committee, Health Care Monitoring Team for the case of Morales Feliciano vs. Roselló González in the U.S. District Court for the District of Puerto Rico (1993 - 1996)
Fellow, Brookdale Center on Aging, Hunter College (1993-present)
Board member, Health Services Improvement Fund, Inc. (1991-1995)
Lecturer, Columbia University School of Public Health (1991-2000)
Member, Commission on Dental Accreditation, American Dental Association (1990-1994)
Board member, Medical and Health Research Association (1988-2000)
Technical reviewer, Bureau of Health Professions, Health Resources and Services Administration, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (1987-1995)
Member, New York State Council on Graduate Medical Education (1987-1990)
Faculty member, Hunter/Mt. Sinai Geriatric Education Center (1987-1992)
Corresponding editor, Journal of Public Health Policy, (1983-1990)
Editor, Revista de Salud Pública de Puerto Rico, (1978-83)Research Associate, Health Services
Research Center, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (1981-83)
MEMBERSHIPS:
American Association for the History of Medicine
American Institute of Certified Planners
American Planning Association
American Public Health Association
Asociación de Salud Pública de Puerto Rico (President, 1978-79)
Colegio de Planificadores de Puerto Rico
Hermann Biggs Society (1987-2000)
PUBLICATIONS:
Books
Ramírez de Arellano AB, Seipp C. Colonialism, Catholicism, and Contraception: A History of Birth Control in Puerto Rico, (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press), 1983.
Arbona G, Ramírez de Arellano AB. Regionalization of Health Services: The Puerto Rican Experience (Oxford: Oxford University Press), 1978. Also published in Spanish as La Regionalización de los Servicios de Salud: La Experiencia de Puerto Rico (Washington, D.C.: Pan American Health Organization), 1980.
Ramírez de Arellano AB. El Seguro Universal de Salud: Bibliografía Anotada Seleccionada. [Universal Health Insurance: A Selected Bibliography]. (Rio Piedras: Escuela Graduada de Planificación, Universidad de Puerto Rico), 1975.
Articles and Chapters
Ortoll, Servando, Ramírez de Arellano, Annette B. Julián Marías, Jaime Benítez y la Fundación Rockefeller. Estudios 76, vol. IV ( Primavera 2006): 7-44.
Ramírez de Arellano, Annette B., Ortoll, Servando. Frida Kahlo: el arte de ser paciente, Lúdika 2,4 (Otoño 2005): 7-9.
Ramírez de Arellano, Annette B. Adaptive Planning: The Work of Dr. John B. Grant in Three Settings. http://archive.rockefeller.edu/publications/resrep/rronlinemain.php. 2005.
Ortoll Servando, Ramírez de Arellano AB. Diego Rivera, José María Sert, y los Rockefeller: Una historia con cuatro epílogos (Diego Rivera, José María Sert, and the Rockefellers: A Tale with Four Sequels), Journal of Iberian and Latin American Studies No. 1 (July 2004): 1-21.
Ramírez de Arellano AB , Ortoll S. The Art of Being (A) Patient. Mentalities/ Mentalités 18: 2 (June 2004): 49-51.
Ortoll Servando, Ramírez de Arellano AB. Frida Kahlo: Retrato de la artista como esposa empresaria. (Frida Kahlo: Portrait of the Artist as Corporate Wife). Desacatos (Núm. 11, primavera 2003): 120-130.
Ortoll Servando, Ramírez de Arellano AB. Julián Marías and the Dissemination of the Philosophical Thought of Ortega y Gasset (Translated into Bulgarian by Kamen Lozev). Philosophy, Journal of the Bulgarian Ministry of Education and Science, 3 (May-June 2003): 14-19.
Ramírez de Arellano AB. Desafíos de la Salud Pública para el Nuevo Siglo. (Challenges for Public Health in the New Century). Puerto Rico Health Sciences Journal. Vol. 22, No. 1, March 2003: 11-17.
Ramírez de Arellano AB. Cancer in Cuban Women and Cancer in Puerto Rican Women. In Glanz K, ed. Cancer in Women of Color Monograph. U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, National Cancer Institute (January 2003).
Ramírez de Arellano AB, Ortoll S. Frida Kahlo: Musa de la Moda (Frida Kahlo: Fashion Muse). Paula. Octubre 2002: 68-72.
Ramírez de Arellano AB, Ortoll Servando. Un timbre muy sonado: Cómo Frida Kahlo se convirtió en figura filatélica. (Stamp of Approval: How Frida Kahlo Became a Philatelic Figure. GénEros, Vol. 9, No. 26, 2002: 72-73.
Ramírez de Arellano AB. Aging and Agism, articles in The Women's Studies Encyclopedia (New York: Routledge, 2001).
Ramírez de Arellano AB. Death as a Sentinel Event: The Mortality of Puerto Ricans in the United States. Boletín de la Asociación Médica de Puerto Rico, Vol 91, Nos. 7-12, 1999.
Cunningham I, Vélez Galván ML, Ramírez de Arellano AB, Cunningham EL. Prevention of HIV Infection in Puerto Rico: A Brief Historical Overview. Boletín de la Asociación Médica de Puerto Rico, Vol. 91, Nos. 1-6, 1999: 29-36.
Ramírez de Arellano AB. Al Extremo Norte del Puente Aéreo: Las Puertorriqueñas en los Estados Unidos [The Northern End of the Air Bridge: Puerto Rican Women in the United States], Puerto Rico Health Sciences Journal, Vol. 17, No. 1. March 1998.
Ramírez de Arellano AB, Wolfe S. 'For the Study of Disease and the Prevention Thereof...': Origins of the Columbia School of Public Health, American Journal of Epidemiology, Vol. 147, No. 3, 1998.
Elinson J, Katz M, Ramírez de Arellano A, Wolfe S, Roy R, Susser M. New York Models in Medical Care, American Journal of Epidemiology, Vol. 147, No. 3, 1998.
Ramírez de Arellano AB. Premature Mortality among Puerto Ricans in the U.S., 1989. New England Journal of Public Policy, Vol. 11, No. 2, Spring/Summer 1996.
Ramírez de Arellano AB. The Health of Latino Women, chapter in M. Falik and K. Scott Collins, eds., Women's Health and Care Seeking Behavior (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1996).
Ramírez de Arellano AB. The Elderly and The Health of Children and Youth (with Helen Rodríguez Trías), chapters in C. Molina and M. Aguirre-Molina eds. Latino Health in the U.S.: A Growing Challenge (Washington, D.C.: American Public Health Association), 1994.
Ramírez de Arellano AB. El Tabaquismo como Factor Etiológico en la Mortalidad en Puerto Rico, [Smoking-related Deaths in Puerto Rico] Boletín de la Asociación Médica de Puerto Rico Vol. 86, Nos. 1-3, January-March 1994
Ramírez de Arellano AB. Addressing Cultural Diversity in the Academy, chapter in Lynne Clark, ed. Faculty and Student Challenges in Facing Cultural and Linguistic Diversity. NY: Charles L. Thomas, 1993.
Ramírez de Arellano AB. Multicultural Images of Aging, The Gerontologist, Vol. 32, No. 3, 1992.
Ramírez de Arellano AB, Castro-Alvarez, V. The Reproductive Health of Puerto Rican Women, Journal of Multicultural Community Health, Vol. 2, No. 1, Spring 1992.
Ramírez de Arellano AB. The Death Divide: Gender Differentials in Mortality in Puerto Rico. Boletín de la Asociación Médica de Puerto Rico, Vol. 84, No. 1, January, 1992.
Ramírez de Arellano AB. Education for Public Health in Puerto Rico: 1940-1942, Puerto Rico Health Sciences Journal, Vol. 10, No. 3, December 1991.
Ramírez de Arellano AB. The Politics of Medical Education in Puerto Rico, Puerto Rico Health Sciences Journal, Vol. 9, No. 2, August 1990.
Ramírez de Arellano AB. Medicina de 'cuello rosado': Implicaciones de la feminización de la profesión ['Pink collar' medicine: Implications of the feminization of the profession], Puerto Rico Health Sciences Journal, Vol. 9, No. 1, April 1990.
Ramírez de Arellano AB. Specialists in educating the public, Geriatrics, Vol. 45, No. 2, February 1990.
Ramírez de Arellano AB. Columbia's Overseas Venture: The School of Tropical Medicine at the University of Puerto Rico, Medicine's Geographic Heritage, Vol. 5, December 1989.
Ramírez de Arellano AB. Años de Capacidad Potencial Perdidos: La Mortalidad en Puerto Rico, 1986 [Years of Potential Life Lost: Mortality in Puerto Rico, 1986], Boletín de la Asociación Médica de Puerto Rico, Vol. 81, No. 12, December 1989.
Ramírez de Arellano AB. A 'Class A' Institution: The Struggle for the University of Puerto Rico School of Medicine, Puerto Rico Health Sciences Journal, Vol. 8, No. 2, 1989.
Fishman P, Waslien C, Ramírez de Arellano AB. Conceptualizing a Geriatric Core Curriculum for the Health Professions: A Skills-Based Approach, Gerontology and Geriatrics Education, Vol. 8, No. 4, 1988.
Ramírez de Arellano AB. El SIDA, la Salud Pública, y el Lucro Privado [AIDS, Public Health, and Private Wealth], Boletín de la Asociación Médica de Puerto Rico, Vol. 79, No. 9, Sept. 1987.
Ramírez de Arellano AB. La Escuela de Medicina Tropical: Raíces Ideológicas e Imperativos Políticos [The School of Tropical Medicine: Ideological Roots and Political Imperatives], Revista de Historia, Vol. 2, No. 4, July-Dec. 1986.
Ramírez de Arellano AB. Incidence of Premature Sexual Development in Puerto Rico, Journal of Public Health Policy, Vol. 7, No. 4, Winter 1986.
Vázquez Calzada JL, Velasco E, Morales Z, Ramírez de Arellano AB. Cesarean Childbirth in Puerto Rico: A World Record, Puerto Rico Health Sciences Journal, Vol. 2, No. 2, Sept. 1983.
Ramírez de Arellano AB. Las Cesáreas en Puerto Rico: Un Estudio Exploratorio [Cesarean Sections in Puerto Rico: An Exploratory Study], Revista de Salud Pública de Puerto Rico, Vol. 4, 1983.
Ramírez de Arellano AB. Recursos Humanos para la Planificación de los Servicios de Salud [Human Resources for Health Services Planning], Análisis: Revista de Planificación, Vol. 1, Núm. 1, January 1982.
Ramírez de Arellano AB. The Politics of Public Health in Puerto Rico: 1926-40, Revista de Salud Pública de Puerto Rico, Vol. 3, 1981.
Ramírez de Arellano AB. A Health 'Draft': Compulsory Health Service in Puerto Rico, Journal of Public Health Policy, Vol. 73, No. 1, 1981.
Ramírez de Arellano AB. Diferenciales en Mortalidad por Sexo en Puerto Rico [Mortality Differentials by Sex in Puerto Rico], Boletín de la Asociación Médica de Puerto Rico, Vol. 73, No. 1, January 1981.
Ramírez de Arellano AB. Las Verdaderas Prioridades de Salud en Puerto Rico [The True Health Priorities in Puerto Rico], Anales de la Asociación de Educadores en Salud de Puerto Rico, 1980.
Ramírez de Arellano AB, Miranda LS. Primary Care in Puerto Rico, Public Health Reviews, Vol. VIII, No. 4, Oct.-Dec. 1979.
Ramírez de Arellano AB. Prioridades de Salud en Puerto Rico: Hacia un Refinamiento de los Instrumentos de Medición [Health Priorities in Puerto Rico: Refining Measurement Tools], Boletín de la Asociación Médica de Puerto Rico, Vol. 71, No. 4, April 1979.
Ramírez de Arellano AB. Salud y Tecnología: Proyecciones e Implicaciones [Health and Technology: Projections and Implications], Revista de Salud Pública de Puerto Rico, 1978-9.
Ramírez de Arellano AB. Evaluation in NHS/NHI Implementation, APHA Newsreport, No. 2, July 1978.
Ramírez de Arellano AB. La Planificación de los Servicios de Salud en Puerto Rico [Health Services Planning in Puerto Rico], Revista Interamericana de Planificación, Vol. XII, Num. 45, March 1978.
Ramírez de Arellano AB. Perspectivas de la Salud en el San Juan del Año 2000 [Perspectives for Health in San Juan in the year 2000], San Juan 2000, (San Juan: Municipio de San Juan), 1977.
Ramírez de Arellano AB. El Mercado de los Servicios Médicos [The Market for Medical Services], Boletín de la Asociación Médica de Puerto Rico, Vol. 68, No. 7, 1976.
Ramírez de Arellano AB. El Reto Ante una Sociedad Cambiante [The Challenge in a Changing Society], Anales de la Asociación de Educadores en Salud, 1976.
Ramírez de Arellano AB. Algunas Implicaciones del Seguro Universal de Salud [Some Implications of Universal Health Insurance], Revista Farmacéutica de Puerto Rico, Vol. 37, No. 4, July-August 1972.
Ramírez de Arellano AB. Reseña: Nuevas Comunidades en Puerto Rico [Review article: New towns in Puerto Rico], PLERUS, Vol. VI, No. 1, June 1972. (Also published as a series of articles in El Mundo, October, 1971).
Contributor, Background Studies for the United States-Puerto Rico Commission on the Status of Puerto Rico. (Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office), 1966.
Book reviews in Caribbean Studies, Journal of the American Planning Association, Journal of the American Institute of Planners, Journal of Public Health Policy, and the Revista de Salud Pública de Puerto Rico. Movie reviews in The Gerontologist.
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