Carol Levine is a home health-care advocate and the Director of the Families and Health Care Project of the
United Hospital Fund
The United Hospital Fund of New York (UHF) is a nonprofit organization that focuses on improving health care in New York. It conducts health policy research and supports numerous health care initiatives through fundraising, grantmaking, and collab ...
.
Career
In 1991, she founded The Orphan Project: Families and Children in the HIV Epidemic.
From 1987 to 1991, she was the director of the Citizens Commission on AIDS in
New York City
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.
She is a fellow of the
Hastings Center
The Hastings Center for Bioethics is an independent, nonpartisan bioethics research institute in Garrison, New York.
Its mission is to address ethical issues in health care, science, and technology. Through its projects and publications and its pu ...
, an independent bioethics research institution.
Levine is the editor of ''Always on Call: When Illness Turns Families into Caregivers,''
''The Cultures of Caregiving,'' and ''Living in the Land of Limbo''.
Awards
* 1993
MacArthur Fellows Program
The MacArthur Fellows Program, also known as the MacArthur Fellowship and colloquially called the "Genius Grant", is a prize awarded annually by the MacArthur Foundation, John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation to typically between 20 and ...
* 2009 Purpose Prize Fellow
Works
"President Obama’s Groundbreaking Order on Hospital Visitation and Decision-making" ''Bioethics Forum'', 19 April 2010
''The Cultures of Caregiving: Conflict and Common Ground Among Families, Health Professionals, and Policy Makers'' Editors Carol Levine, Thomas H. Murray, JHU Press, 2004,
* ''Always on Call: When Illness Turns Families into Caregivers'', United Hospital Fund of New York, 2000,
''A generation at risk: the global impact of HIV/AIDS on orphans and vulnerable children'' Editors Geoff Foster, Carol Levine, John Williamson, Cambridge University Press, 2005,
"AIDS and the Ethics of Human Subjects Research" ''AIDS & ethics'', Editor Frederic G. Reamer, Columbia University Press, 1991,
References
American health activists
Living people
MacArthur Fellows
Year of birth missing (living people)
Fellows of the Hastings Center
Cornell University alumni
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