- Walter Willett
Walter Willett , M.D. Author, "Eat, Drink, and Be Healthy" Chairman, Department of Nutrition - Howard Koh
As Director of the Division of Public Health Practice, Dr. Howard Koh is committed to developing innovative interdisciplinary approaches to promote and protect the health of communities. Hence his interests span the dimensions of science, research, education, communication, policy, advocacy, and leadership. - Lucian Leape
Dr. Lucian Leape is a physician and professor at Harvard School of Public Health, who has been very active in trying to improve the medical system to reduce medical error. In 1994 he had an article "Error in Medicine" published in JAMA. In 2000, he testified before a subcommittee of the US Senate with his recommendations for improving medical safety. Lucian Leape has spent his recent working life campaigning for change in the American healthcare system. - Atul Gawande
Atul Gawande (b. 1965 in Brooklyn, NY) is a general and endocrine surgeon at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston, Massachusetts, an assistant professor at the Harvard School of Public Health, and an assistant professor of surgery at Harvard Medical School. He has written extensively on medicine and public health for The New Yorker magazine and the online magazine "Slate." He has also written for "New England Journal of Medicine". - Jean Mayer
Jean Mayer (February 19, 1920 - January 1, 1993) was a renowned French-American nutritionist and the tenth president of Tufts University from 1976 to 1992. During his lifetime, Mayer was known as a leading expert and activist on hunger issues. Mayer was the son of French physiologists Jeanne Eugenie Mayer and Andre Mayer, one of the founding members of the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization. - Andrew Spielman
Andrew Spielman, Sc.D. was a prominent American public health entomologist and Professor of Tropical Public Health in the Department of Immunology and Infectious Diseases at the Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH). Spielman was a world-renowned expert in the vector-borne illnesses malaria, Lyme disease, babesiosis and in the ways in which they are transmitted by mosquitoes and ticks. He was a major figure in the modern history of public health entomology. - David E. Bloom
David E. Bloom is an economist and demographer. He is currently the Clarence James Gamble Professor of Economics and Demography at the Harvard School of Public Health and director of its Program on the Global Demography of Aging. He is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. His work focuses on the effect of health and demography on economic development, particularly the demographic dividend. - William Hsiao
William C. Hsiao (b. January 17, 1936), an American economist, is the K.T. Li Professor of Economics at the Harvard School of Public Health in Boston, Massachusetts. He is internationally recognized for his work on health care financing and social insurance. Professor Hsiao is a graduate of Ohio Wesleyan University and received his Ph.D from Harvard University in Economics. He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences, Institute of Medicine, the Society of Actuaries, … - Jay Winsten
Jay Winsten is a molecular biologist and an associate dean at the Harvard School of Public Health. He was the co-editor with Nobel laureate James Watson and Howard Hiatt of a three-volume work, "Origins of Human Cancer". Winsten has also been praised by the "Columbia Journalism Review" for his study of health science journalism. Winsten was also the driving force behind the Harvard Alcohol Project, which promoted the concept of a "designated driver", … - Timothy Johnson
Dr. G. Timothy Johnson, frequently called Tim Johnson, is the current main medical editor/contributor for ABC News. He provides on-air medical ABC's "World News Tonight", "Nightline" and "20/20". He also appears on "Good Morning America". Johnson is on the faculty of Harvard Medical School and on the staff of Massachusetts General Hospital. Johnson received his undergraduate degree from Augustana College, … - George Annas
George J. Annas is the Edward R. Utley Professor of Health Law, Bioethics & Human Rights, Chairman of Department of Health Law, Bioethics & Human Rights, at the Boston University School of Public Health. He holds a degree in economics from Harvard College and law from Harvard Law School and an M.P.H. from the Harvard School of Public Health. He is a widely published national expert in the field of health law, bioethics, and human rights, … - Philip Drinker
Philip Drinker (December 12, 1894 in Haverford, Pennsylvania –October 19, 1972 in Fitzwilliam, New Hampshire) was an industrial hygienist who invented the first widely used iron lung in 1928 with Louis Agassiz Shaw. Drinker's father was railroad-man and Lehigh University president Henry Sturgis Drinker; his siblings included lawyer and musicologist Henry Sandwith Drinker, Jr., pathologist Cecil Kent Drinker,, businessman James Drinker, … - John Cairns
(Hugh) John Cairns (1922-) is a British physician and molecular biologist who made significant contributions to molecular genetics, cancer research, and public health. Cairns received his M.D. from Oxford. He then worked as a virologist at the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research in Melbourne, Australia and at the Virus Research Institute at Entebbe, Kenya. - Karl Lauterbach
Karl Lauterbach is a German scientist and politician (SPD). He is professor of health economics and epidemiology at the University of Cologne. Lauterbach studied human medicine in Aachen,Düsseldorf and San Antonio(Texas). From 1989-1992 he was studying Health Policy and Management as well as epidemiology at the Harvard School of Public Health in Boston. - Joel E. Cohen
Joel E. Cohen is a mathematical biologist. He is currently Abby Rockefeller Mauzé Professor of Populations at the Rockefeller University and a professor of populations at the Earth Institute of Columbia University in New York City. Cohen grew up in Michigan and graduated from Cranbrook School in 1961. He received his B.A. in applied mathematics from Harvard University in the 1960s, and earned a Ph.D. in applied mathematics from Harvard in 1970. - Ralph Paffenbarger
Ralph S. Paffenbarger, Jr., MD, DrPH, ScD (b. October 21, 1922 - d. July 9, 2007, Santa Fe, New Mexico) was an epidemiologist, ultramarathoner, and professor at both Stanford University School of Medicine and Harvard University School of Public Health. Dr. Paffenbarger was internationally renowned for his classic study on the improvement in longevity though regular lifetime physical activity, … - Judith Kurland
Judith Kurland was a Regional Director for the United States Department of Health and Human Services during the second Clinton administration. She was appointed by Secretary of HHS Donna Shalala in 1997.. Kurland received her B.A. in political science from Mount Holyoke College in 1967. She served as the first Female Commissioner of the Boston Department of Health and Hospitals, … - Christopher Wanjek
Christopher Wanjek is a health and science writer based in the United States. Wanjek received his bachelor's degree in journalism from Temple University and his master's degree from the Harvard School of Public Health. He is the author of "Bad Medicine : Misconceptions and Misuses Revealed, from Distance Healing to Vitamin O" (2002) and "Food At Work: Workplace Solutions For Malnutrition, Obesity And Chronic Diseases" (2005). - Gunther Eysenbach
Gunther Eysenbach, MD, MPH, is a senior researcher on Open access, health policy, eHealth, and consumer health informatics. Eysenbach was born on March 22 1967, in Berlin, Germany. While being a medical student, he served on the executive board as elected Communication Director, later as Vice-President of the European Medical Students' Association (EMSA). He received a MD from the University of Freiberg in Baden-Württemberg, Germany, … - Anthony Cortese
Anthony Cortese (b. January 26, 1947 in Winthrop, Massachusetts) was raised in the north end of Boston and received his high school education at Boston Latin High School before entering Tufts University in 1964. Following his graduation he was employed by the United States Public Health Service. He received a Masters degree from Tufts University in 1972. He graduated with a doctoral degree in Environmental Health Sciences from the Harvard School of Public Health in 1976. - Matthew K. Wynia
Matthew K. Wynia, MPH, MD is an American medical ethicist who performs research at the Institute for Ethics at the American Medical Association (AMA), where he is the director. - Thomas Huckle Weller
Thomas Huckle Weller (born June 15, 1915) is an American virologist. He, John Franklin Enders and Frederick Chapman Robbins were awarded a Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1954 for showing how to cultivate poliomyelitis viruses in the test tube. Weller was born and grew up in Ann Arbor, Michigan, and then went to the University of Michigan, where his father Carl Vernon Weller was a professor in the Department of Pathology. - Bryan Bergeron
Bryan Bergeron, MD, is an author of numerous books in the fields of medicine, computers, biotechnology, and business. He teaches in the HST Division of Harvard Medical School and MIT and is president of Archetype Technologies, Inc. - Vineeta Rastogi
Vineeta Rastogi, born, (August 4 1968 - December 5, 1995) in Silver Spring, Maryland, was an Indian-American AIDS activist, public health worker and Peace Corps Volunteer in Democratic Republic of the Congo. She attended University of Maryland, Harvard School of Public Health and had been accepted at Johns Hopkins School of Public Health for a Ph.D when she was diagnosed with cancer. - Jorge Saavedra Lopez
Jorge Saavedra Lopez is general director of the Centro Nacional para la Prevencion y el Control del VIH/SIDA (CENSIDA), an agency of the Mexican Ministry of Health. Dr Saavedra was born to a Mexican-American mother in the Arizona-Mexico border town of Naco, Sonora. He has two masters degrees from the Harvard School of Public Health; one in public health and the other in health policy management. In 2000 he founded the first Ambulatory Care AIDS Clinic in Mexico City, … - Herbert Ley Jr.
Herbert L. Ley Jr., M.D. (September 7 1923—July 22 2001) was an American physician and government official. He attended Harvard College from 1941-1943, and returned there after World War II, where he received his M.D. degree, "cum laude", in 1946. In 1951, he earned an Master of Public Health degree from the Harvard School of Public Health. From 1951 until 1958, he worked with the Army Medical Service Graduate School in rickettsial disease research, … - Frederick Pei Li
Frederick Pei Li (born 1940) is an American physician. Frederick Pei Li was born in Canton, China (Guangzhou), and raised in New York City where his parents operated a Chinese restaurant. He received a B.A. in physics from New York University, an M.D. from the University of Rochester, and M.A. in demography from Georgetown University. In 1967 he joined the Epidemiology Branch of the NCI. - Charles M. Super
Charles M. Super Professor of Human Development & Family Studies at University of Connecticut. He has held academic appointments at the Harvard Medical School and the Harvard School of Public Health. He has directed or participated in research projects on early human development and family life in the Netherlands, Kenya, Zambia, Guatemala, Colombia, Haiti, and Bangladesh, as well as the United States. - Julio Frenk
Dr. Julio Frenk currently divides his time between Seattle and Mexico City. In Seattle, he serves as Senior Fellow at the Global Health Program of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and is also the Chairman of the Board of the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation at the University of Washington. In Mexico City, he is the President of the CARSO Health Institute, a new foundation focusing on health-systems innovations in Latin America. - Dr Meir J Stampfer MD
Meir Stampfer , MD, DrPH is Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School and Professor of Epidemiology and Nutrition at Harvard School of Public Health where he has served, since 2000, as Chair of the Department of Epidemiology. Dr. Stampfer is principal investigator for several grants from the National Cancer Institute and Prostate Cancer Foundation. - Lauren Dame
Lauren Dame is the Associate Director of the IGSP's Center for Genome Ethics, Law & Policy, and teaches courses on Bioethics and Genetics & the Law at Duke Law School. Ms. Dame's areas of interest include bioethics, genetics, biomedical research and the protection of human subjects, healthcare policy, and the effects of technology on privacy. She is a Faculty Associate of the Trent Center for Bioethics, Humanities and History of Medicine at Duke University Medical Center. - Robert Repetto
Dr. Repetto's area of expertise is environmental and resource economics. From 1998 to 2000, he held a Pew Fellowship in Marine Conservation at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution. Until 1998 he was vice president and senior economist at the World Resources Institute in Washington, DC, where he authored numerous books and monographs on environmental policy. - Yvette Roubideaux
Dr. Roubideaux , an enrolled member of the Rosebud Sioux Tribe, is a graduate of Harvard University, Harvard Medical School, and completed a Primary Care Internal Medicine Residency at Brigham and Womens Hospital in Boston MA. She is Board Certified in Internal Medicine, and recently completed the Commonwealth Fund/Harvard University Fellowship in Minority Health Policy and her MPH degree from Harvard School of Public Health. - Maureen Bisognano
Maureen Bisognano , Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer, Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI), is responsible for day-to-day management of the Institute's many programs designed to improve the delivery of health care. Ms. Bisognano oversees all operations, program development, and strategic planning for the Institute. She also advises senior leaders around the world on improving health care systems. - Mona Loutfy
Dr. Loutfy's research interests focus on the clinical management of HIV infection particularly in women. She in developing a multidimensional reserach program on women and HIV that will serve women across Toronto and have an impact on care across Canada. - Diane Eardley
- Beverly Winikoff
Beverly Winikoff , MD, MPH President, Gynuity Before beginning work on Gynuity, Dr. Winikoff was employed for 25 years at the Population Council where she was Director for Reproductive Health and a Senior Medical Associate. - David Wennberg
David Wennberg , MD, MPH Chief Science & Products Officer Dr. Wennberg is an internist with specialty training in health services and outcomes research. In addition to helping found Health Dialog Analytic Solutions (HDAS), he leads a nationally recognized research team at the Maine Medical Center, focusing on the drivers of utilization and quality in the delivery of health care services. - Milton C. Weinstein
Dr. Milton C. Weinstein Professor of Health Policy, Management, and Biostatistics Harvard School of Public Health - Dr Darshan H Mehta MD
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