Keith Wailoo

Keith Andrew Wailoo is Henry Putnam University Professor of History and Public Affairs at Princeton University where he teaches in the Department of History and the School of Public and International Affairs. He is an award-winning author on drugs and drug policy; race, science, and health; and genetics and society; and he is widely known for insightful public writing and media commentaries on history of medicine, pandemics and society, and health affairs in the U.S.

In 2021, he received the Dan David Prize for his “influential body of historical scholarship focused on race, science, and health equity; on the social implications of medical innovation; and on the politics of disease.” In 2021, he was also elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He is former Chair of the Princeton Department of History, the former Vice Dean of the Princeton School of Public and International Affairs, and current President of the American Association for the History of Medicine.