- David Sirota
David Sirota is the bestselling author of the books "Hostile Takeover" (2006) and "The Uprising" (2008). He is a fellow at the Campaign for America's Future and a board member of the Progressive States Network - both nonpartisan organizations. E-mail him at ds@davidsirota.com.
- Orrin Hatch
Orrin Grant Hatch (born March 22, 1934) is a Republican United States Senator from Utah, serving since 1977. Hatch is a member of the U.S. Senate Committee on Finance, where he serves on the subcommittees on International Trade, Taxation and IRS Oversight, and Health Care. Hatch is also on the Select Committee on Intelligence, where he is the Ranking Republican, the Committee on the Judiciary, and the Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee, …
- Ted Strickland
Ted Strickland is the U.S. Representative for Ohio's Sixth Congressional District, and the Democratic candidate for Governor of Ohio. Ted was born in Lucasville in 1941, the eighth of nine children. He didn't grow up in privilege-As a child, his home burned down, leaving him and his family to live in a chicken shack until his father could convert their barn into a new home.
- Sherrod Brown
Sherrod Campbell Brown (born November 9 1952) is the Democratic Junior United States Senator from the state of Ohio. Prior to his election to the Senate, he served 14 years in the United States House of Representatives, and eight years as the Ohio Secretary of State.
- Bernie Sanders
Bernard "Bernie" Sanders (born September 8, 1941) is the current junior United States Senator from Vermont. Sanders was elected on November 7, 2006, and is presently a member of the 110th United States Congress. Before becoming Senator, Sanders represented Vermont's at-large district in the United States House of Representatives for 15 years.
- Pete Stark
Fortney Hillman "Pete" Stark Jr. (born November 11 1931), American politician, has been a Democratic member of the United States House of Representatives since 1973, representing (map).
- Tammy Bruce
Tammy Bruce (born August 19, 1962) is a pro-choice lesbian feminist who hosts "The Tammy Bruce Show," a radio talk show broadcast on over 160 stations in the United States. Bruce describes herself as a classical liberal author and political commentator. "The Tammy Bruce Show" broadcasts three hours a day six days a week, including Saturdays. She is also a political contributor to Fox News Channel. She is described on her website as "an openly homosexual, …
- Bill Thomas
William Marshall Thomas, commonly known as Bill Thomas, American politician, was a Republican member of the United States House of Representatives from 1979–2007, representing the 22nd District of California (map). He last served as the Chairman of the powerful House Ways and Means Committee, and retired to private life at the end of the 109th Congress.
- Jeff Sessions
Jefferson Beauregard "Jeff" Sessions III (born December 24, 1946) is the junior United States Senator from Alabama. He is a member of the Republican Party.
- Michael Johns
Michael Johns (born September 8, 1964 in Allentown, Pennsylvania) is an American health care executive, former federal government of the United States official and conservative policy analyst and writer.
- Thaksin Shinawatra
Thai businessman and politician, is the former Prime Minister of Thailand, the former leader of the populist Thai Rak Thai party, and current owner of the Manchester City Football Club. Thaksin is wanted back in Thailand to face criminal charges of abuse of power and corruption during his reign as Prime Minister. Thaksin started his career in the Thai Police, and later became a successful entrepreneur, establishing Shin Corporation and Advanced Info Service, …
- David Nabarro
Dr. David Nabarro (born in 1949), works as the Senior UN System Coordinator for Avian and Human Influenza at United Nations Headquarters in New York. He has been seconded to this position from the World Health Organization until the end of September 2007. Son of Sir John David Nunes Nabarro, he attended Oundle School leaving in the summer of 1966. In a gap year between school and university, Nabarro was a Community Service Volunteer.
- Tom Ammiano
Tom Ammiano (born December 15, 1941), a Democrat, is a member of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors representing District 9, which encompasses parts of the Mission District and the Bernal Heights and Portola neighborhoods. He was elected to the city-wide Board in 1994, and re-elected in 1998, when he became Board President. His efforts to have the Board elected by district instead of city-wide succeeded, and, running as a resident of Bernal Heights, …
- Kathleen Kennedy Townsend
Kathleen Hartington Kennedy Townsend (born July 4, 1951) was lieutenant governor of the U.S. state of Maryland from 1995 to 2003. She ran unsuccessfully for Governor of Maryland in 2002. The eldest of Robert F. Kennedy and Ethel Skakel's 11 children, she is part of the Kennedy political family. She was named for her aunt Kathleen Agnes Kennedy, Marchioness of Hartington, who died in a plane crash in 1948.
- Jason Altmire
Jason Altmire (born March 7, 1968), is a Democratic member of the United States House of Representatives representing Pennsylvania's Fourth Congressional district. He defeated incumbent Republican Melissa Hart in the 2006 midterm elections, and took office in January 2007. Altmire is part of the Iraq War opposition in the House and speaks on the subject often and, like many new Democrats, he played a large role in discussions on the war.
- Dave Weldon
David Joseph Weldon, (known as Dave Weldon) (born August 31 1953, Amityville, New York) is an American politician and physician. He has been a Republican member of the United States House of Representatives since 1995, representing (map).
- Mike Ferguson
Michael A. "Mike" Ferguson (b. June 22 1970, Ridgewood, New Jersey) is an American Republican Party politician who has been a member of the United States House of Representatives representing New Jersey's 7th congressional district since 2001.
- Jeb Bradley
Joseph E. "Jeb" Bradley (born October 20, 1952) was a Republican member of the United States House of Representatives for the from 2003 to 2007. He was defeated for reelection in 2006 by Democrat Carol Shea-Porter, in what was considered an upset.
- Keith Martin
Keith P. Martin, PC, MP, BSc, MD (born April 13, 1960, in London, UK) is a Canadian physician and politician. He is the Liberal Member of Parliament for the riding of Esquimalt—Juan de Fuca. Martin was first elected in 1993 as a member of the Reform Party of Canada. However, unlike most Reformers, he was socially liberal, and he often clashed with Reform's conservative leaders. He is conservative on economic issues such as the privatization of health care services, …
- Jon Kabat-Zinn
Jon Kabat-Zinn (born June 5, 1944) is Professor of Medicine Emeritus and founding director of the Stress Reduction Clinic and the Center for Mindfulness in Medicine, Health Care, and Society at the University of Massachusetts Medical School. He teaches mindfulness meditation as a technique to help people cope with stress, anxiety, pain and illness. His life work has been largely dedicated to bringing mindfulness into the mainstream of medicine and society.
- John Hamm
John Frederick Hamm, MLA, MD (born April 8, 1938) is a Canadian physician and politician and was the 31st premier of Nova Scotia, Canada. Hamm, a graduate of the University of King's College and Dalhousie University, was a family doctor in his hometown of Stellarton, Nova Scotia, and the president of the Nova Scotia Medical Society. He entered politics in 1993, becoming the Member of the House of Assembly for the riding of Pictou Centre.
- John Hostettler
John Nathan Hostettler (born June 19 1961), American politician, is a former Republican member of the United States House of Representatives. He served from 1995 to 2007 representing the 8th District of Indiana (map) in the southwestern part of the state. He lost his bid for reelection to Democratic challenger Brad Ellsworth in the 2006 midterm election, ending a twelve-year Congressional career.
- Paul Moist
Paul Moist is national president of the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE), Canada's largest trade union. Until elected to lead CUPE's 540,000 members in October 2003, Moist served for 10 years as the president of CUPE Local 500, representing Winnipeg municipal workers. He also served for six years as president of CUPE Manitoba. Under Moist's leadership, CUPE has focused on branding itself as a community union, advocating strongly for the new deal for cities, …
- Sir Ian Kennedy
Professor Sir Ian McColl Kennedy (born 14 September 1941) is a British academic lawyer who has specialised in the law and ethics of health. Kennedy is Emeritus Professor of Health Law, Ethics and Policy at University College, London. He was the BBC's Reith lecturer (on the subject of "unmasking medicine") in 1980.
- Howie Hawkins
Howie Hawkins is an American politician and activist running for City Council At-Large in Syracuse, New York. He co-founded the anti-nuclear Clamshell Alliance in 1976 and the Green Party in the United States in 1984. He was that party's candidate for the U.S. Senate in the State of New York in 2006.
- Dale Carpenter
Dale Carpenter is the Julius E. Davis Professor of Law at the University of Minnesota Law School. He teaches and writes in the areas of constitutional law, the First Amendment, sexual orientation and the law, and commercial law. Professor Carpenter was chosen the Stanley V. Kinyon Teacher of Year for 2003-04 and 2005-06 and was the Tenured Teacher of the Year for 2006-07.
- Ezekiel J. Emanuel
Dr. Ezekiel J. Emanuel is a noted NIH bioethicist, and a leading opponent of state-assisted suicide. Currently Emanuel is Director of the Clinical Bioethics Department at the U.S. National Institutes of Health. He graduated from Amherst College and received his MSc from Oxford University in Biochemisty. He received his MD from Harvard Medical School and a PhD in Political Philosophy from Harvard University. He also is a brother of Hollywood-based superagent Ari Emanuel, …
- Harold Shipman
Harold Frederick Shipman (January 14, 1946-January 13, 2004) was an English general practitioner who was one of the most prolific known serial killers in modern history. He was better known, before his arrest, as Fred Shipman. He was convicted on 15 sample charges in 2000 and sentenced to 15 consecutive life sentences. He committed suicide in 2004 at HMP Wakefield, West Riding of Yorkshire, without admitting or explaining his crimes.
- Larry Sanders
Larry Sanders (born in New York) is an Oxfordshire County Councillor. He has lived in Oxford since 1969. He was trained professionally as a social worker and lawyer. He is an employee and trustee of the Oxfordshire Carers' Forum and Oxfordshire Community Care Rights since 1996. His main focuses in politics are social and health care services. Elected in 2005, he became the Green Party councillor group leader in the Oxfordshire County Council.
- Liu Xiang
Liu Xiang (born July 13, 1983) is a Chinese hurdling athlete and Olympic gold medalist and world record holder in the 110 metres hurdles at 12.88 seconds. Born in Shanghai, China, his given name, 翔, means "to soar".
- Marilyn Wann
Marilyn Wann is one of the key players in the current fat activism movement. With her magazine "Fat!So?", created in 1993, and the publication of a book of the same name in 1998, she has played a role in trying to convince the public that fat people deserve to be respected, regardless of size. She is also the Activism Chair of NAAFA, the National Association to Advance Fat Acceptance. “I’m not interested in people accepting my fat, …
- Forrest Claypool
Forrest Claypool is an American politician and a Democratic Party member of the Cook County Board of Commissioners. An attorney, Claypool has lived in the Ravenswood neighborhood of Chicago for the past 15 years. He is married and has three children.
- E.J. Pipkin
Edward "E.J." Pipkin is a Republican member of the Maryland State Senate, representing Maryland's 36th Senate district, and was first elected in 2002. Prior to his election to the state senate, he worked in the field of business finance, trading junk bonds in New York City. Pipkin currently lives in Stevensville, Maryland.
- Phyllis Kahn
Phyllis Kahn is a retired professor of Biophysics and a DFL Representative in the Minnesota State Legislature for District 59B. Educated at Cornell (B.A. in Physics), Yale (Ph.D. in Biophysics), and Harvard (M.P.A.) Universities, Phyllis Kahn has been a long-time advocate for education, health care and medical technology, agriculture and the natural environment, and human rights, particularly for senior citizens and women.
- Nancy-Ann Min Deparle
Nancy-Ann Min DeParle was sworn in as Administrator of the Health Care Financing Administration November 10, 1997. The HCFA Administrator, a key health policy advisor to the HHS Secretary and other top Administration officials, directs the Medicare and Medicaid programs, which help provide health insurance coverage for more than 67 million Americans at a cost of more than $320 billion annually.
- Rosemary Mulligan
Rosemary Mulligan (born July 8, 1941) is an American politician of the Republican Party. Mulligan was first elected to the Illinois House of Representatives in 1992. On January 8 2003 Rep. Mulligan was sworn in for her sixth term as state representative. In her 12 years in the Illinois House, she has become a leader on state budget issues (particularly human service appropriations), family issues, health care, and early childhood education.
- Richard Tarrant
Richard Edward Tarrant, (born August 6, 1942 in Newark, New Jersey) is an American businessman, millionaire, and politician. Most recently, he was the Republican nominee for U.S. Senator from the state of Vermont (see Vermont United States Senate election, 2006) in 2006, but lost the election to Representative Bernie Sanders. Tarrant and his wife reside in Colchester where he is currently working on his charitable foundation.
- Arthur Kellermann
Dr. Arthur L. Kellermann, M.D., M.P.H. (born 1955) is a professor and chairman of the department of emergency medicine at Emory University. He is also currently director of the Center for Injury Control of the Rollins School of Public Health at Emory University School of Medicine, as well as co-chair of the Committee on the Consequences of Uninsurance of the Institute of Medicine of the National Academies.
- Dawn Morrell
Dawn has lived in Puyallup for 22 years with her husband Jim, a retired Air Force pilot. After retirement, Jim received his teaching certificate from Pacific Lutheran University and taught at Clover Park Technical College for 10 years. He is now a math and science tutor. Dawn and Jim have been married for 38 years and have two children and five grandchildren. Their two children, Jereme and Jameson, attended Puyallup public schools and graduated from Rogers High School.
- Byllye Avery
Byllye Yvonne Avery (b. 1937) is a health care activist in the United States of America. She has worked to improve the welfare of African-American women by creating the National Black Women's Health Project in 1981. She has received the MacArthur Foundation's Fellowship for Social Contribution and the Gustav O. Lienhard Award for the Advancement of Health Care from the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Science, among other awards.