Apply Online!
Home » Academics » Faculty & Staff

Michael Yudell, PhD, MPH

Michael Yudell, MPH, MPhil

 

Assistant Professor, Department of Community Health and Prevention

Phone: 215.762.6515
Email: myudell@drexel.edu


Asst. Professor Michael Yudell received his B.A. from Tufts University and completed graduate work at both Columbia University and the City University of New York. He also held the position of researcher in the Molecular Laboratories at the American Museum of Natural History in New York City, where his work focused on genome policy and ethics, and the position of Health Policy Analyst at the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina. Yudell is the author, with Rob DeSalle, of Welcome to the Genome: A User's Guide to the Genetic Past, Present, and Future, published in September 2004 by John Wiley and Sons. Yudell and DeSalle also edited The Genomic Revolution: Unveiling The Unity Of Life, which was published in 2002 by the Joseph Henry Press of the National Academy of Science. His work has also been published in Nature Reviews Genetics, The Journal of the History of Biology, Genome Technology, Natural History, and American Scientist.

Research Interests: Public health genomics; ethics; history of public health; addiction. Prof. Yudell is currently working on several projects: an examination of the history, public health implications, and biology of opiate addiction; revising for publication his dissertation manuscript entitled Making Race: Biology and the Evolution of the Race Concept in 20th Century American Thought; and developing research on the nature of public health ethics and the use of historical methods in ethics research.

:: Curriculum Vitae (PDF) 

In order to view articles in PDF format, you will need Adobe Reader. If you have an earlier version or receive an error message when trying to view the document, please click here to download the latest version of Adobe Reader.