Amy Fairchild

Fairchild works on public health ethics and policy. After completing her doctoral degree, she was appointed to the faculty of Columbia University.^[3] She studied the social forces that impact health inspection of migrants and disease surveillance and privacy.^[3] In particular, she was interested in the interplay between surveillance and public health policy.^[4] She was responsible for delivering the Department of Public Health history and policy course.^[5] She looked at the impacts of fear-based public health campaigns, such as Michael Bloomberg's efforts on tobacco use, obesity and HIV.^[6] She argued that banning e-cigarette sales and vaping would have negative impacts on people's health.^[7][8]

After twenty years at Columbia, Fairchild returned to Texas A&M University, where she served as Associate Dean and Vice President for Faculty Affairs. She joined Ohio State University as a professor in the College of Public Health in 2019.^[9] Throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, Fairchild was responsible for monitoring health on campus and providing public health advice to the people of Ohio.^[10][11][12] She called for a national mask mandate to prevent the spread of coronavirus disease.^[13]

• Amy Fairchild; Ronald Bayer; James Colgrove (18 December 2013). "The renormalization of smoking? E-cigarettes and the tobacco "endgame"". The New England Journal of Medicine. 370 (4): 293–295. doi:10.1056/NEJMP1313940. ISSN 0028-4793. PMID 24350902. Wikidata Q54422084.
• Ronald Bayer; Amy L Fairchild (1 November 2004). "The genesis of public health ethics". Bioethics. 18 (6): 473–492. doi:10.1111/J.1467-8519.2004.00412.X. ISSN 0269-9702. PMID 15580720. Wikidata Q53317309.
• Lawrence O Gostin; Ronald Bayer; Amy L Fairchild (1 December 2003). "Ethical and legal challenges posed by severe acute respiratory syndrome: implications for the control of severe infectious disease threats". JAMA. 290 (24): 3229–3237. doi:10.1001/JAMA.290.24.3229. ISSN 0098-7484. PMID 14693876. Wikidata Q40541337.

• Fairchild, Amy L. (2007). Searching eyes : privacy, the state, and disease surveillance in America. Ronald Bayer, James Keith Colgrove, Daniel Wolfe. Berkeley: University of California Press. ISBN 978-0-520-94121-2. OCLC 182574130.
• Fairchild, Amy L. (2003). Science at the borders : immigrant medical inspection and the shaping of the modern industrial labor force. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. ISBN 0-8018-7080-1. OCLC 49699445.