From the age of five months, she began travelling with her parents to destinations including China, Malaysia, India, Egypt and throughout Europe.

[4] Fee taught history of science and medicine at the State University of New York and introduced controversial courses on human sexuality.

Historian Theodore M. Brown has said that Fee sought "to make sure that vulnerable people do not have their needs and rights trampled in the rush to 'protect the public.

[4] Fee produced almost thirty books and hundreds of articles, on topics as varied as the racialized treatment of syphilis, the history of the toothbrush, and bioterrorism.

[2] This is considered the first "biography" of the first school of public health, and it documented power networks in a supposedly technocratic field.

[8] She oversaw moves to restructure the organisation around three sections: Rare Books and Early Manuscripts, Images and Archives, and Exhibitions.

[3][2] The June issue of APJH featured eight articles marking Fee's influence on the field of the history of public health.