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About Carnegie Corporation
Patricia L.
Rosenfield
Program Director, Carnegie Scholars Program
Patricia Rosenfield
is the Program Director for the Carnegie Scholars Program, which
she helped launch in 2000. The program supports individual scholarship
in the Corporation's fields of interest. Beginning in October 2004,
the Scholars Program is focused on support of scholars working on
issues related to Islam and Muslim societies and communities. Rosenfield
led the Corporation's program on strengthening human resources in
developing countries from 1990-1998 and the program on international
development from 1998-2000. From 1999-2007, concurrently with chairing
the Scholars Program, she served as special advisor to the vice
president and director for strategic planning and program coordination.
Prior
to joining Carnegie in 1987, Rosenfield developed and managed the
social and economic research component of the UNDP/World Bank/World
Health Organization Special Program for Research and Training in
Tropical Diseases and was the program economist. From 1979 to 1986,
she worked with the Edna McConnell Clark Foundation as a member
and chair of their Tropical Disease Advisory Committee. Earlier
she worked on problems of environment and development, in Washington,
at Resources for the Future, an environmental economics research
institute.
Rosenfield
holds an A.B., cum laude from Bryn Mawr College and a Ph.D. from
Johns Hopkins University's Department of Geography and Environmental
Engineering. She was chosen as a Rockefeller Foundation Environmental
Affairs Fellow in 1975 and worked, in part, with the foundation's
schistosomiasis project in Saint Lucia. She received an honorary
doctorate in social science from Mahidol University in Bangkok,
Thailand in 1998.
Rosenfield
is an active member of the Council on Foreign Relations. She serves
on the International Advisory Committee of the Wagner School of
Public Policy of New York University, where she had been an adjunct
professor form 2000 to 2003. She also serves on the Johns Hopkins
University Alumni Council for the School of Engineering. She chaired
the Bio-Behavioral-Social Perspectives on Health Working Group,
an interdisciplinary health project for the Social Science Research
Council and the National Institutes of Health Office of Behavioral
and Social Sciences from 1999-2002. She currently serves as a member
of the board of the Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation, Global Fund
for Children, Future Generations, and World Scout Foundation USA.
She has served on the International Committee of the Council on
Foundations, the Committee of Reference on Corporate Social Responsibility
for Friends Ivory Sime, Inc., the School Committee of Friends Seminary,
the National Advisory Committee to the Presidential Search Committee
for Spelman College, the Conference Committee of the New York Academy
of Sciences and the Steering Committee of the Markle Foundation's
Global Digital Opportunity Initiative.
Rosenfield
has written extensively on health, economics and interdisciplinary
research approaches and has served as an advisory editor for Social
Science and Medicine. In May 2003, Oxford University Press published
Expanding the Boundaries of Health and Social Sciences, co-edited
by Rosenfield, Frank Kessel and Norman Anderson (a revised second
edition, re-titled Interdisciplinary Research, was published in
winter, 2008). An article on "The Ethics of international Grantmaking",
co-authored by Rosenfield, Courtenay Sprague and Heather McKay was
published in the winter 2004 special issue on Leadership,Values
and Ethics of the Journal of Leadership and Organizational Studies.
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