Dr. Graham Mooney

Associate Professor in the Department of the History of Medicine at JHU

Graham Mooney is an Associate Professor in the Department of the History of Medicine at JHU, where he also holds an adjunct faculty position in the Bloomberg School of Public Health Department of Epidemiology.  Trained a geographer, he is interested in the history of public health in the UK and US, including infectious disease surveillance and control; historical geographies of health and medicine; and historical epidemiology.  His 2015 book Intrusive Interventions: Public Health, Domestic Space, and Infectious Disease Surveillance in England 1840-1914 examines infectious disease notification, institutional and domestic isolation, disinfection, and contact tracing as spatialized aspects of liberal governance.  Dr Mooney’s work on COVID-19 has featured in The AtlanticNew England Journal of MedicineAnnals of Internal Medicine and on NPR.