Faculty/Staff Christopher R. Keane, ScD, MPH

Assistant Professor

Graduate School of Public Health
211 Parran Hall
Pittsburgh, PA 15261

Phone: 412-624-3128
Fax: 412-624-5510
E-mail: crkcity@pitt.edu




RESEARCH

I research transformations in healthcare systems, including trends towards privatization, partnership, and multiple forms of managed care. I explore how these transformations reflect changes in the metaphors people use to understand the social world. I am completing a book showing how management models and metaphors have penetrated health care and a variety of health-related domains including public health movements, healthcare reform, and popular advice on infant care and geriatrics. My concern is how recent transformations in health systems affect the uninsured and vulnerable and the preparedness of public health departments. I have served as principal investigator or co-principal investigator on research projects funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, Health Resources and Services Administration, and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Most recently, I received a career award grant from the Agency on Healthcare Research and Quality. I have published articles in more than a dozen different peer-reviewed journals on topics ranging from privatization, health insurance, and social models of world health.

TEACHING

I teach BCHS 2563 Social Action Approaches to Community Health Assessment.

SERVICE

I am a peer reviewer for JAMA, Pediatrics, and the American Journal of Public Health. I serve on the doctoral committee in our department. I have regularly advised and worked with many community organizations, health departments, governmental organizations, and University faculty on topics such as research methodology, privatization, partnering, and the role of health departments as providers of care to the uninsured.

MOST RECENT PUBLICATIONS

  • Keane, Christopher.  Forthcoming.  Managing America. University Press of New England.
  • Keane, Christopher. 2003.  “Globality and Constructions of World Health,” in Roland Robertson and Kathleen E. White, editors, Globalization: Critical Concepts in Sociology.  Volume 5.  London: Routledge.
  • Keane, Christopher, John Marx, Edmund Ricci. 2003. Managerial and Professional Beliefs Influencing Public Health Privatization: Results of a National Survey of Local Health Department Directors. Journal of Health and Social Behavior 44: 97-110.
  • Keane, Christopher, John Marx, Edmund Ricci. 2003. Local Health Departments’ Mission to the Uninsured in the Age of Managed Care: Results of a National Survey. Journal of Public Health Policy 24(2): 130-149.
  • Keane, Christopher, John Marx, Edmund Ricci, Gerald Barron. 2002. The Perceived Impact of Privatization on Local Health Departments. American Journal of Public Health 92: 1178-1180.
  • Keane, Christopher, John Marx, Edmund Ricci. 2002. The Services Privatized in Local Health Departments. American Journal of Public Health 92: 1250-1254.
  • Keane, Christopher, John Marx, Edmund Ricci. 2002. The Privatization of Environmental Health Services. Public Health Reports 117: 62-68.
  • Keane, Christopher, John Marx, Edmund Ricci. 2002. Public Health Privatization: Proponents, Resisters and Decision-makers. Journal of Public Health Policy 23 (2): 133-152.
  • Lave, Judy, Christopher Keane, et al. 2002. The Impact of Dental Benefits in a Children’s Health Insurance Program on the Use of Dental Services in Western Pennsylvania. Pediatric Dentistry 24:3:234-240.
  • Keane, Christopher.  2001. Managerial Hegemony, Cultural Change, and the Transformation of Infant Care Advice in the United States in the Twentieth Century. International Journal of Health Services 31(1): 167-186.
  • Keane, Christopher, John Marx, Edmund Ricci.  2001. Perceived Outcomes of Privatization in Local Health Departments. Milbank Quarterly 79(1): 115-137.
  • Keane, Christopher, John Marx, Edmund Ricci. 2001. Privatization and the Scope of Public Health. American Journal of Public Health  91(4): 611-617
  • Keane, Christopher, Judy Lave, Edmund Ricci, and Charles LaVallee. 1999. The Impact of a Children’s Health Insurance Program by Age. Pediatrics 104(5): 1051-1058.
  • Keane, Christopher. 1998. Globality and Constructions of World Health. Medical Anthropology Quarterly 12(2): 226-240.
  • Lave, Judy, Christopher Keane et al. 1998. The Impact of a Children’s Health Insurance Program on Newly Enrolled Children. Journal of the American Medical Association. 279(22):1820-1825.
  • Lave, Judy, Christopher Keane et al. 1998. The Impact of Lack of Health Insurance on Children. Journal of Health and Social Policy 10(2): 57-73.
  • Saxton, Judy, Myrna Silverman, Edmund Ricci, Christopher Keane, Beth Deeley. 1998. Maintenance of Mobility in Residents of an Alzheimer Special Care Facility. International Psychogeriatrics. Vol. 10(2):213-224
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