Dr. Allan Rosenfield, AIDS Pioneer, Dies
By: ANDY HUMM
10/23/2008

Allan Rosenfield, the dean of Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health for 22 years and a leader in the fight against AIDS, especially among women worldwide, has died in upstate Hartsdale. He was 75 and suffered from Lou Gehrig's disease, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.

Rosenfield developed the Mother-to-Child Transmission Program to prevent mothers with HIV from passing it on to their babies, an effort that reached more than half a million women. He also served as the national chairman of Planned Parenthood in the mid-1980s and as chair of the Program Board at AmFAR, the Foundation for AIDS Research.

He is survived by his wife, Clare, a son, Paul, and a daughter, Jill.