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 collabo ...
.
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
New York, often called New York City or NYC, is the most populous city in the United States. With a 2020 population of 8,804,190 distributed over , New York City is also the most densely populated major city in the Un ...
.
She is a fellow of the
Hastings Center
The Hastings Center is an independent, nonpartisan bioethics research institute and think tank based in Garrison, New York. It was instrumental in establishing the field of bioethics and is among the most prestigious bioethics and health policy i ...
, 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
* 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)
Hastings Center Fellows
Cornell University alumni
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