Research
History of Medicine and Public Health; Sexually Transmitted Infections and HIV/AIDS, with a particular focus on men who have sex with men (MSM); Infectious disease contact tracing
Publications
Erica Charters and Richard A. McKay, 'The History of Science and Medicine in the Context of COVID-19', Centaurus 62 (2020), 223-33.
Richard A. McKay, Patient Zero and the Making of the AIDS Epidemic (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2017).
With Paul Woodson (narrator), Patient Zero and the Making of the AIDS Epidemic [audiobook] (HighBridge Audio, 2017).
Michael Worobey, Thomas D. Watts, Richard A. McKay, Marc A. Suchard, Timothy Granade, Dirk E. Teuwen, Beryl A. Koblin, Walid Heneine, Philippe Lemey & Harold W. Jaffe, '1970s and "Patient 0" HIV-1 genomes illuminate early HIV/AIDS history in North America', letter, Nature 539 (3 November 2016), 98-101 http://rdcu.be/l0bP.
Richard A. McKay, 'Before HIV: Venereal Disease Among Homosexually-active Men in England and North America', in The Routledge History of Disease, edited by Mark Jackson (London: Routledge, 2016), 439-57.
Richard A. McKay, '"Patient Zero": The Absence of a Patient's View of the Early North American AIDS Epidemic', Bulletin of the History of Medicine 88 (2014): 161–94.
Justin Barr, Richard A. McKay & Deborah B. Doroshow, 'The Dangers of "Us Versus Them": Epidemics Then and Now', Journal of General Internal Medicine (2021), http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11606-020-06368-y
Richard A. McKay, Margaret Pelling, Margaret Humphreys, Frank Huisman, Abigail Woods & Yewande Okuleye, 'Why Do We Do What We Do? The Values of the Social History of Medicine', Social History of Medicine 33 (2020): 3-17.
