George Rosen (1910–1977) was an American physician, public health administrator, journal editor, and medical historian.
Upon his return to New York City, Rosen interned at the Beth-El Hospital in Brooklyn for two years and soon began submitting articles to Sigerist’s Bulletin of the History of Medicine.
Rosen began his private practice in 1937 but it was not financially secure and he took a part-time job in the Tuberculosis Service of the New York State Department of Health.
Rosen entered the U.S. Army during World War II and was assigned to the Surgeon General’s Office as an epidemiologist.
[2] From 1938 to 1944, with the help from Sigerist, Rosen began to submit articles and later editor of The Ciba Foundation Symposium, a historical brochure financed by the drug company and distributed to physicians.
The prize is awarded to the author or coauthors of a historical monograph on public health or social medicine.
[6] Rosen died July 27, 1977, in Oxford, England, where he and Beate were traveling prior to his planned delivery of the keynote address at a major international conference on the history of medicine.