- Jimmy Carter
James Earl "Jimmy" Carter, Jr. (born), was the thirty-ninth President of the United States from 1977 to 1981, and the Nobel Peace laureate of 2002. Prior to becoming president, Carter served two terms in the Georgia Senate, and was the 76th Governor of Georgia from 1971 to 1975. Carter's presidency saw the creation of two cabinet-level departments: the Department of Energy and the Department of Education.
- Jane Fonda
Jane Fonda (born December 21, 1937) is a two-time Academy Award-winning American actress, writer, political activist, former fashion model, and fitness guru. Since the 1960s Fonda has appeared in several movies. She has won two Academy Awards and received several other awards and nominations. She initially announced her retirement from acting in 1991, and said for many years that she would never act again, but she returned to film in 2005 with "Monster in Law", …
- John Reid
John Reid (born 8 May 1947) is a British politician who is the former Home Secretary and Member of Parliament (MP) for the Scottish constituency of Airdrie and Shotts in the United Kingdom.
- Edgar Cayce
Edgar Cayce (March 18, 1877 - January 3, 1945) was an American who claimed psychic abilities. He claimed an ability to channel answers to questions on subjects such as health, astrology, reincarnation, and Atlantis while in a self-induced trance. Although Cayce lived before the emergence of the New Age movement, he remains a major influence on its teachings.
- Mark Jones
Mark Jones is a Welsh politician and member of Plaid Cymru. He stood unsuccessfully for the Vale of Clwyd constituency in the National Assembly for Wales election, 2007. Mark Jones was born in London but currently lives in Llandudno. He received education at Groby Community College in Leicestershire and currently works as constituency coordinator for Aberconwy. Having previously held various posts with local government, …
- David Thomas
David Thomas is a Welsh politician and member of Plaid Cymru. David Thomas is the Plaid canditate for Montgomeryshire constituency in the National Assembly for Wales election, 2007 David was born and raised in Haverfordwest and lives near Llanwddyn, having moved there in 1986. He was educated in the primary and secondary schools in Haverfordwest, at the Universities of Oxford (Keble College) and Wales (Cardiff and Aberystwyth) and the South Wales Theological College.
- John Robbins
John Robbins (born October 26 1947) is an American author known for his books on food and health. He is the son of Irma Robbins and Baskin-Robbins co-founder Irv Robbins. He graduated from the University of California, Berkeley, in 1969, and received a Master's Degree from Antioch College, in 1976. Rather than following the ice-cream parlour legacy of his father, John Robbins turned down his vast inheritance to seek a life he found more rewarding.
- John Hill
John Hill (born 1949), Australian politician, is the current South Australian Minister for Health, Minister for the Southern Suburbs, Minister Assisting the Premier in the Arts in the Rann Government. He also represents the electoral district of Kaurna in the South Australian House of Assembly and is a member of the Australian Labor Party. Born in Sydney, Hill attended the University of Sydney and graduated with a Bachelor of Arts.
- Blaise Pascal
Blaise Pascal, (June 19 1623-August 19 1662) was a French mathematician, physicist, and religious philosopher. He was a child prodigy who was educated by his father. Pascal's earliest work was in the natural and applied sciences where he made important contributions to the construction of mechanical calculators, the study of fluids, and clarified the concepts of pressure and vacuum by generalizing the work of Evangelista Torricelli.
- Warren Brown
Warren Brown is the host of the Food Network show, Sugar Rush. He was a lawyer until he decided to become a pastry chef, and is the founder and owner of bakery CakeLove and Love Café in Washington, DC and attended Brown University and The George Washington University Law School.
- 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.
- Ellen G. White
Ellen Gould White ("née" Harmon born to Robert and Eunice Harmon, was an American Christian leader whose prophetic ministry was instrumental in founding the Sabbatarian Adventist movement that led to the rise of the Seventh-day Adventist Church. Supporters of Ellen G. White regard her as a modern-day prophet, usually expressed in the language that she exhibited the spiritual gift of prophecy as outlined in the New Testament.
- Faron Young
Faron Young (born February 25, 1932, near Shreveport, Louisiana, died December 10, 1996), was an American country music singer, predominantly in the honky tonk genre. Starting off singing at the local Optimist Club, Young was discovered by Webb Pierce, who brought him to star on the Louisiana Hayride radio program on KWKH in 1951. He was drafted into the Army in late 1952, just after he was signed to Capitol Records.
- Ann Veneman
Ann M. Veneman is first UNICEF Executive Director to visit Swaziland © UNICEF/HQ05-0695/Nesbitt UNICEF Executive Director Ann M. Veneman joins children at the Dvumbe Primary School, south-east of Mbabane, Swaziland.
- G. Edward Griffin
G. Edward Griffin, born on November 7, 1931, is an American political commentator, writer and documentary filmmaker. He graduated from the University of Michigan with a major in speech and communications, and also attended the College for Financial Planning in Denver, Colorado where he obtained a CFP designation (Certified Financial Planner) in 1989. Griffin has been involved as a founder and leader of a number of organizations in health, media, …
- Sandra Gidley
Sandra Julia Gidley (born March 26, 1957) is a British politician, is the Liberal Democrat Member of Parliament for Romsey.
- Sue Kedgley
Sue Kedgley (born 1948), BA (Victoria University), TTC (Auckland University), MA (Hons) (Otago University), a New Zealand politician, has represented the Green Party in the New Zealand Parliament since first becoming a Member of Parliament as a list MP in the 1999 elections. She won re-election in the 2002 and 2005 elections. She currently fills the 3rd slot on the Green Party list.
- Greg Critser
Greg Critser is a journalist who writes for USA Today, including cover stories dealing with medical, health and nutrition topics. He has had work published in the New York Times, The Times, Harper's Magazine, Washington Monthly and is often interviewed on the issue of food politics.
- Liz McManus
(Elizabeth) Liz McManus is an Irish Labour Party politician. She is currently the deputy leader of the Labour Party and Party Spokesperson for Health. Liz McManus was born in 1947 in Montréal, Canada and is currently a TD for Wicklow. She first ran for political office in 1979 when she was elected to Bray Urban District Council for the Sinn Féin the Workers Party. Later, she was elected to Wicklow County Council.
- E. Fuller Torrey
Edwin Fuller Torrey, M.D. (b.September 6, 1937, Utica, New York), is an American psychiatrist and schizophrenia researcher. He is Associate Director for Laboratory Research at the Stanley Medical Research Institute (SMRI). Torrey is president of the board of the Treatment Advocacy Center (TAC), …
- Harold McGee
Harold McGee writes about the chemistry, technique and history of food and cooking and is the author of two books that explain kitchen science in an approachable manner. His first book, "On Food and Cooking: The Science and Lore of the Kitchen" was initially published in 1984. A greatly revised second edition was published in 2004. McGee has also written for "Nature", "Health", "The New York Times", "The World Book Encyclopedia", …
- Rhona Brankin
Rhona Brankin (born 19 January 1950) was first elected to represent Midlothian in the Scottish Parliament in 1999 and was re-elected in 2003 and 2007. Brankin is a graduate of the University of Aberdeen and before entering the Scottish Parliament she was a teacher and a lecturer on special educational needs. She was former chair of the Scottish Labour Party. She is married with two grown-up daughters.
- 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, …
- Ira Flatow
Veteran National Public Radio (NPR) science correspondent and award-winning TV journalist Ira Flatow is host of Talk Of The Nation: Science Friday. Ira Flatow anchors the show each Friday, bringing radio and Internet listeners worldwide a lively, informative discussion on science, technology, health, space and the environment. Ira Flatow is also founder and president of a non-profit company dedicated to creating radio, TV and Internet projects that make science "user friendly."
- Jim Devine
James "Jim" Devine (b. May 24 1953, Blackburn, West Lothian) is a Scottish Labour Party politician, the Member of Parliament for Livingston, since holding the seat in the Livingston by-election of September 29, 2005. Devine served as election agent to Livingston Constituency Labour Party and to the former MP Robin Cook from the 1983 general election until Cook's death in 2005. He was the Chairman of the Scottish Labour Party 1994-1995.
- Dan Olmsted
Dan Olmsted is an investigative reporter and senior editor for United Press International (UPI), and the author of the "Age of Autism" report series. Olmsted's columns on health and medicine appear regularly in the "Washington Times" and are syndicated nationally from UPI's Washington D.C. bureau.
- Jerome Hauer
Jerome Hauer is the director of the Office of Public Health Preparedness (OPHP) of the US since May 5, 2002. He was a former empolyee of Kroll Inc. which studied biological terrorism attacks.
- 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.
- Larry Brilliant
Dr. Lawrence (Larry) Brilliant is a medical doctor, epidemiologist, technologist, author and philanthropist. Born in Detroit, Michigan (May 5, 1944), he received his undergraduate training as well as his MPH (Masters in Public Health) from the University of Michigan and his M.D. from Wayne State University. He moved to California for his internship at the Pacific Medical Center, and developed thyroid cancer from which he recovered.
- Tom Quinn
Tom Quinn is the UK's only Professor of Cardiac nursing, and a fellow of the Royal College of Nursing (RCN) for his outstanding contribution to research and practice of cardiac nursing. He currently works at Coventry University covering research, development and consultancy in cardiovascular care issues, particularly emergency and critical cardiac care and policy. His previous clinical experience included periods at St Bartholomew's Hospital, …
- David Laibson
David Laibson is a professor of economics at Harvard University, where he has taught since 1994. His research focuses on macroeconomics, intertemporal choice, behavioral economics and neuroeconomics. Laibson was born 26 June 1966, the son of Ruth and Peter Laibson; and grew up in Haverford, PA. He received an A.B. ("summa") from Harvard in 1988 and went on to study at the London School of Economics (MSc.
- Hugh Bayley
Hugh Bayley (born January 9, 1952) British politician. He is the Labour member of Parliament for The City of York. Bayley was born in Maidenhead, Berkshire and was educated at Haileybury, the University of Bristol, where he obtained a politics degree; and the University of York where he was awarded a degree in Southern African Studies. After his studies in 1975 he became a District Officer and later a National Officer with NALGO.
- Michio Kushi
Michio Kushi born 1926 in Japan, helped to introduce modern macrobiotics to the United States in the early 1950’s. He has lectured about philosophy, spiritual development, health, food and diseases at conferences and seminars all over the world.
- Patty Stonesifer
Patty Stonesifer is the Co-chair and President of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. In 1997, Bill and Melinda Gates asked Stonesifer to launch the Gates Library Foundation, which later merged with the William H. Gates Foundation in 2000. The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation's US$24 billion endowment fund hands out more than a billion dollars a year to "improve access to advances in global health and learning." Prior to 1997, …
- Andrea Fischer
Andrea Fischer (born January 14, 1960 in Arnsberg/Westfalen) was a member of the German Bundestag for the German Green Party and from 1998 until 2001 Federal Minister for Health. She dropped out of the Bundestag in 2002. After an apprenticeship and the job as offset printer Fischer studied economics.
- Tassos Papadopoulos
Tassos Nikolaou Papadopoulos. In the late 1950s, Papadopoulos was active in PEKA, the political section of EOKA. He took part in the London Conference in 1959 and was one of the two delegates (besides the AKEL delegates) who voted against the signing of the London and Zurich Agreements. He was also one of the four representatives of the Greek Cypriot side at the Constitutional Commission which drafted the Constitution of the Republic of Cyprus.
- Rudy Demotte
Rudy Demotte (born June 3, 1963 in Ronse) is a Belgian socialist politician who currently serves as Minister for Social Affairs and Public Health, in the Belgian federal government. From 1988 to 1990 he served on the cabinet of the Minister of Social Affairs. He was first elected to the Belgian House of Representatives in 1995 and was reflected in 1999 and 2003. In 1999, he became the federal Minister for Economic Affairs and Scientific Research.
- Penny Priddy
Penny Priddy (born: 1944) is a politician from British Columbia. Originally a nurse, she moved from Ontario to Surrey in 1981. She was elected to the school board in 1986 and to the provincial legislature in 1991, serving in several cabinet posts in the NDP government. Because of cancer, she did not run in the 2001 British Columbia election, but returned to politics in 2002 when she was elected to Surrey city council.
- David Butler-Jones
Dr. David Butler-Jones is the current (as of September 2004) Chief Public Health Officer of Canada. He is the first person to hold the office. The Chief Public Health Officer is the head of the Public Health Agency of Canada.
- Nicholas Saunders
Nicholas Saunders (January 25 (or possibly July 25), 1938 – February 3, 1998) was a free-thinking British figure of the 'alternative' movement from the 1970s until his death in a car crash in South Africa. He researched, self-published and distributed a series of editions of 'Alternative London'. These were encyclopaediac guides to living in London particularly for young people squatting, living on low incomes, on the fringes of conventional society, …