- Oswaldo Cruz
Oswaldo Gonçalves Cruz, better know as Oswaldo Cruz, (b. August 5, 1872, São Luíz de Paraitinga, São Paulo state, Brazil; d. February 11, 1917, Petrópolis, Rio de Janeiro state) was a Brazilian physician, bacteriologist, epidemiologist and public health officer and the founder of the Oswaldo Cruz Institute.
- Caroline Flint
Caroline Louise Flint (born 20 September 1961 in Twickenham, England) is a British Labour politician. She is the Member of Parliament for Don Valley in Northern England, the Minister of State in the Department of Work and Pensions and the Minister for Yorkshire and the Humber.
- Marion Nestle
Marion Nestle is Paulette Goddard Professor in the Department of Nutrition, Food Studies, and Public Health (the department she chaired from 1988-2003) and Professor of Sociology at New York University. Her degrees include a Ph.D. in molecular biology and an M.P.H. in public health nutrition, both from the University of California, Berkeley. Medical Expert Blogger I'm a medical doctor, media health and wellness expert, life coach, speaker and... flamenco dancer!
- Peter Piot
Dr. Peter Piot is Under Secretary-General of the United Nations and Executive Director of the UN specialized agency UNAIDS. In 2004, he was awarded the Vlerick Award. "From UNAIDS.org Bio:" <blockquote> Executive Director of UNAIDS since its creation in 1995 and Under Secretary-General of the United Nations, …
- Stephen Smith
Stephen Smith (b. 1823 - d. 1922) was an American surgeon and a pioneer in public health. Smith led the establishment of the Metropolitan Board of Health in New York City in 1866, the first such public health agency in the United States. He later founded the American Public Health Association.
- Gro Harlem Brundtland
(born April 20, 1939) is a Norwegian politician, diplomat, and physician, and an international leader in sustainable development and public health. She is a former Prime Minister of Norway, and has served as the Director General of the World Health Organization. She now serves as an Environmental Envoy of the United Nations.
- Lee Jong-Wook
Lee Jong-wook was the Director-General of the World Health Organization for three years. He was born in Seoul, South Korea and died - while in office - in Geneva, Switzerland. Lee obtained a medical degree from Seoul National University, then enrolled at the University of Hawaii to study public health, earning a Master's degree. He joined the WHO in 1983, working on a variety of projects including the Global Programme for Vaccines and Immunizations and Stop TB.
- 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, …
- Michael Osterholm
Michael Osterholm Ph.D, MPH is a distinguished professor in the University of Minnesota School of Public Health, director of the Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy (CIDRAP), and associate director of the Department of Homeland Security's National Center for Food Protection and Defense (NCFPD). Dr. Osterholm has served in many other public health capacities and is active in raising awareness of a potential influenza pandemic.
- Eric Keroack
Dr. Eric J. Keroack is an American non-board certified obstetrician-gynecologist. In late 2006, he was nominated by President George W. Bush to oversee the federal family planning program of the United States. Bush appointed Keroack deputy assistant secretary for population affairs at the Department of Health and Human Services, the office that oversees federally funded teenage pregnancy, family planning, and abstinence programs, using its $283 million annual budget.
- Colin D'Cunha
Colin D'Cunha was Ontario Chief Medical Officer of Health during the SARS crisis. He was replaced by interim head Karim Kurji and Sheela Basrur, former chief of Toronto Public Health. D'Cunha was adjunct professor and head of public health for Scarborough, Ontario.
- Simon Chapman
Simon Chapman is an Australian academic and antismoking tobacco control activist. He is Professor in Public Health at the University of Sydney. Chapman is a sociologist whose PhD examined the semiotics of cigarette advertising. He is author of 13 books and major government reports, 202 papers and 123 letters and commentaries in peer reviewed journals. Chapman is a regular writer on public health matters in leading Australian newspapers, …
- 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, …
- Jonathan Fielding
Jonathan E. Fielding , M.D., M.P.H. is Director of Public Health and Health Officer for Los Angeles County responsible for all public health functions including surveillance and control of both communicable and non-communicable diseases, and of health protection (including against bioterrorism) for the County=s 10 million residents. He directs a staff of 3,600 with an annual budget exceeding $650 million within the Department of Health Services.
- 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.
- George Carlo
George Louis Carlo (b. August 24, 1953) is an American epidemiologist, author, and attorney. He is best known as one of the most prominent scientists investigating the possible negative health effects of cellular phones. He earned his bachelor's, master's, and doctoral degrees (the latter in 1979) from the University at Buffalo, The State University of New York and earned a JD from George Washington University. He is a Fellow of the American College of Epidemiology, …
- Robin Cook
Robin Cook (born May 4 1940 in New York) is an American doctor/novelist who writes about medicine and topics affecting public health. He is noted for several works, including "Toxin", "Outbreak", "The Year of The Intern", and "Fatal Cure". Several of his books have been published by Reader's Digest. A number of Cook's novels, including "Coma" and "Sphinx", have been made into movies. He graduated from Columbia University.
- Binayak Sen
Dr Binayak Sen is a paediatrician, public health specialist and national Vice-President of the People's Union for Civil Liberties (PUCL) based in Chhattisgarh state, India. Dr Sen is noted for extending health care to the poorest people, monitoring the health and nutrition status of the people of Chhattisgarh, and defending the rights of indigenous tribal people. In May 2007, he was detained in connection with his human rights work, raising global concern about his welfare.
- Edwin Chadwick
Sir Edwin Chadwick (January 24, 1800-July 6, 1890) was an English social reformer, noted for his work to reform the Poor Laws and improve sanitary conditions and public health. One of the reasons why Chadwick believed in improvement to public health was because he believed it would save money. He was born in Longsight, Manchester. Called to the bar without any independent means, he sought to support himself by literary work, …
- Richard Feachem
Sir Richard George Andrew Feachem, KBE, FREng was born in Manchester, UK in 1947. He took up his position as the first Executive Director of the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, and Under Secretary-General of the United Nations, in July 2002. Feachem is Professor of International Health at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) School of Medicine and the UC Berkeley School of Public Health, …
- Eberhard Wenzel
Eberhard R. Wenzel (2 January, 1950 - 20 September, 2001) was a public health researcher and an advocate for the socio-ecological view of health promotion as described in the Ottawa Charter for Health Promotion. He was a Senior Lecturer of International Health at Griffith University and Deputy Director of Queensland Centre for Public Health.
- Richard Wilkinson
Richard Wilkinson is a leading researcher in social inequalities in health. He is a professor of social epidemiology at the University of Nottingham in the UK. His two-page article in New Society published on16 December 1976, entitled 'Dear David Ennals' played an important part in the setting up of the Black Report.
- John Frank
John Frank, MD, MSc, FRCPC is a Canadian epidemiologist. He was trained in medicine and community medicine at the University of Toronto, in family medicine at McMaster University, and in epidemiology at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. He was the founding Director of Research at the Institute for Work & Health in Toronto from 1991 until 1997, and is currently a Senior Scientist at that Institute. Dr.
- William Foege
William Foege, MD, MPH is an American epidemiologist who had worked extensively with smallpox, particularly its control in Nigeria. He was born in Chewelah, a small town in Washington state. His father was a Lutheran minister. In his younger days he was inspired by Albert Schweitzer. He graduated from Pacific Lutheran University, completed his M.D. at the University of Washington and his Master's degree in public health from Harvard University.
- Arthur Kleinman
Professor Arthur Kleinman was appointed chair of the DSM in 1991 and led the DSM into its second decade, continuing and strengthening academic programs in medical anthropology, the history of medicine, social and health policy, the humanities, and medical ethics.
- Fiona Stanley
Professor Stanley is the Founding Director of the Telethon Institute for Child Health Research; Executive Director of the Australian Research Alliance for Children and Youth; and Professor, School of Paediatrics and Child Health at the University of Western Australia. Professor Stanley was also Australian of the Year in 2003.
- 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.
- Arata Kochi
Arata Kochi, a Japanese physician and public health expert, is the director of the World Health Organization's malaria program. He had previously been director of its tuberculosis programs for ten years.
- Kelly D. Brownell
Kelly D. Brownell is an American scientist, professor, and internationally renowned expert on obesity and weight control. Brownell is Director of the Rudd Center for Food Policy and Obesity at Yale, where he is also Professor of Psychology and Professor of Epidemiology and Public Health. His research deals primarily with eating and body weight regulation and the intersection of behavior, environment, and health with public policy.
- James W. Holsinger
James Wilson Holsinger, Jr. (born May 11, 1939) is an American physician who has worked in public health for over 30 years. He earned an MD and PhD from Duke University in 1964 and 1968. Holsinger served for 26 years in the Department of Veterans Affairs and oversaw the 165 VA hospitals as Undersecretary of Veterans Affairs from 1990 to 1993. He served for 31 years in the United States Army Reserve, retiring as a Major General in 1993.
- Rob Moodie
Rob Moodie (born 1953, c. Melbourne) is currently the Professor of Global Health at the Nossal Institute of Global Health at the University of Melbourne and was named Victorian Father of the Year in 2005. He is married and has two children. He graduated in medicine at the University of Melbourne in 1976, and has also studied Tropical Medicine at Paris University and Public Health at Harvard University. He has worked for the Save the Children Fund, Medicins Sans Frontieres, …
- Stewart Simonson
Stewart Simonson is the former Assistant Secretary for Public Health Emergency Preparedness at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). He assumed office on April 28, 2004. He told the president in a resignation letter May 13, 2006 that he had accomplished what he had set out to do, and it was time to move on. Simonson served as the Secretary's principal advisor on matters related to bioterrorism and other public health emergencies.
- Peter Beilenson
Dr. Peter Beilenson is a Democratic Party politician in Maryland, United States. He is a former Health Commissioner of Baltimore, Maryland, having served for 13 years under the administrations of Kurt Schmoke and Martin J. O'Malley. He sought the Democratic Nomination for Maryland's third congressional district in 2006; despite taking a quarter of the vote, he lost to John Sarbanes.
- Karen Buck
Karen Patricia Buck (born August 30, 1958) British politician. She is the Labour member of Parliament for Regent's Park and Kensington North and a former Parliamentary Under Secretary of State at the Department for Transport.
- Judith Walzer Leavitt
Judith Walzer Leavitt is Rupple Bascom and Ruth Bleier Professor of History of Medicine, History of Science, and Women’s Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She has published multiple books and articles on women's health, including a study of Mary Mallon ("Typhoid Mary"), a history of childbirth in America, and a history of public health in Milwaukee. She is the wife of Waisman Center medical director Lewis Leavitt and the sister of political theorist Michael Walzer.
- W. Craig Vanderwagen
Rear Admiral W. Craig Vanderwagen is the second Assistant Secretary for Public Health Emergency Preparedness at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). He was installed on July 25, 2006 by President Bush. Admiral Vanderwagen serves as the Secretary's principal advisor on matters related to bioterrorism and other public health emergencies. He also coordinates interagency activities between HHS, other federal departments, agencies, …
- Toni Weschler
Toni Weschler is the author of the popular book Taking Charge of Your Fertility , which is revolutionizing the field of women's health. By offering a simple and effective means of identifying the fertile phase, Weschler demystifies menstrual cycles and provides a complete and fascinating window into the reproductive system. Shattering various fertility myths, the book is a must-have resource for all women of reproductive age.
- C. Arden Pope
C. Arden Pope III, is an American professor of economics at Brigham Young University. He received his B.S. degree from Brigham Young University in 1978 and his Ph.D. in economics and statistics from Iowa State University in 1981. Although his research includes many papers on topics in the fields in which he was trained—environmental economics, resource economics, …
- George Newman
George Newman (October 23, 1870, Leominster, Herefordshire - May 26, 1948) was an English public health physician, Quaker, the first Chief Medical Officer to the Ministry of Health in England, and wrote a seminal treatise on the social problems causing infant mortality.
- Cathy Crowe
Cathy Crowe, RN (born ca. 1951) is a Canadian nurse and social activist, specializing in advocacy for the homeless in Canada. Raised in Kingston, Ontario, she has won fame as a "street nurse" working with homeless and poor populations in downtown Toronto, Ontario, and as an activist for housing, public health and social justice. In 1998, she co-founded the Toronto Disaster Relief Committee. Crowe was the subject of "Street Nurse", a documentary film (ca.