George Rosen Prize

George Rosen Prize Shortlist

The George Rosen Prize is awarded in odd years to one or more authors/creators of an article, essay, edited volume, museum exhibition, film, or other significant contribution to the history of public health or the history of social medicine published or created in the five calendar years preceding the award’s nomination deadline, i.e. from 2020 to 2024.

 

We are thrilled to celebrate the finalists for the 2026 George Rosen Prize! The winner of the Rosen Prize will be announced at the awards breakfast on Saturday, June 6, 2026 at the annual meeting in Buffalo. 

 

Many thanks to the 2025-26 Rosen Prize committee: Wayne Soon (chair), Andrew Lea, Julia Rodriguez, Emily Novak, and Yang Li.

George Rosen (NLM)

Beth Linker

Slouch: Posture Panic in Modern America (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2024).
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Rachel Louise Moran

Blue: A History of Postpartum Depression in America (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2024).
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Christina Ramos

Bedlam in the New World: A Mexican Madhouse in the Age of Enlightenment (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2022).
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Christian Warren

Starved for Light: The Long Shadow of Rickets and Vitamin D Deficiency (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2024).
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Travis A. Weisse

Health Freaks: America’s Diet Champions and the Specter of Chronic Illness (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2024).
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Harry Yi-Jui Wu

Mad by the Millions: Mental Disorders and the Early Years of the World Health Organization (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2021).
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