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Agnes Binagwaho
Agnes Binagwaho is a Rwandan pediatrician who served as Rwanda's Minister of Health from 2011 to 2016, led its National AIDS Control Commission, and co-founded the University of Global Health Equity.
Alan Reed Weil
Alan Reed Weil is an American health policy scholar and National Academy of Medicine member, editor-in-chief of Health Affairs and former executive director of NASHP.
Alex Azar
Alex Azar (born 1967) is an American lawyer and former Eli Lilly executive who was the 24th US Secretary of Health and Human Services, 2018-2021, under Trump, after serving as HHS general counsel and deputy secretary under Bush.
Alonzo Yerby
Alonzo Smythe Yerby (1921–1994) was an American physician and public health administrator who served as New York City's Commissioner of Hospitals and later headed health services administration at Harvard.
Anne R. Somers
Anne R. Somers, also known as Anne Ramsey Somers, was an American health policy analyst and long-term care scholar who helped shape the 1965 Medicare legislation.
Arthur Garson Jr.
Arthur Garson Jr. is an American pediatric cardiologist and health policy leader, elected to the National Academy of Medicine in 2007 and known for the Grand-Aides program.
Bernard D. Goldstein
Bernard D. Goldstein is an American environmental toxicologist and public health physician, emeritus dean at the University of Pittsburgh and a former EPA research administrator.
Brian Christine
Brian Christine, American urologist and Admiral; 18th Assistant Secretary for Health at HHS and head of the USPHS Commissioned Corps; confirmed October 7, 2025; formerly men's health surgeon at Urology Centers of Alabama.
Bruce C. Vladeck
Bruce C. Vladeck is an American health policy leader who ran Medicare and Medicaid as HCFA administrator from 1993 to 1997 and wrote Unloving Care (1980).
C. Everett Koop
C. Everett Koop (1916–2013), pioneering pediatric surgeon-in-chief at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia and 13th U.S. Surgeon General (1981–1989) under Reagan, known for the 1986 AIDS report, the 107-million-household Understanding AIDS mailing, and anti-tobacco reports.
Calley Means
Calley Means, American health entrepreneur, TrueMed co-founder, and senior HHS adviser under RFK Jr.; ex-food/pharma consultant, Good Energy co-author with sister Casey Means, key MAHA architect.
Chorh-Chuan Tan
Chorh-Chuan Tan is a Singaporean nephrologist who led the 2003 SARS response and served as President of the National University of Singapore from 2008 to 2017.
David Korn (pathologist)
David Korn (1933–2024) was an American pathologist and research-policy leader who was dean of the Stanford School of Medicine and Harvard's inaugural vice provost for research.
Diane Rowland
Diane Rowland is an American health policy scholar who led the Kaiser Commission on Medicaid and the Uninsured for 25 years and chaired MACPAC from 2009 to 2015.
Edwin Mercado
Edwin Mercado (Edwin M. Mercado), Filipino physician and orthopedic surgeon, appointed Philippine Department of Health Secretary in August 2026; previously acting PhilHealth president and CEO from February 2025 and hospital executive.
Elena Ottolenghi Nightingale
Elena Ottolenghi Nightingale is an Italian-born American physician and microbial geneticist at George Washington University, known for work on health and human rights and adolescent health policy.
Enoch Gordis
Enoch Gordis (1931–2023) was an American physician who directed the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism from 1986, after founding a large alcohol treatment program in Queens, New York.
Francisco García (physician)
Francisco García is an American physician and epidemiologist who led Pima County, Arizona's public-health response through the COVID-19 pandemic and was elected to the National Academy of Medicine in 2023.
George A.O. Alleyne
George A.O. Alleyne is a Barbadian physician and public health leader who directed the Pan American Health Organization from 1995 to 2003, championing health equity.
George I. Lythcott
George I. Lythcott (1918–1995) was an American pediatrician and public health administrator who led smallpox eradication in West Africa and served as an Assistant Surgeon General.
Gerold Stucki
Gerold Stucki, born 1959, is a Swiss physician-scientist, professor at the University of Lucerne and director of Swiss Paraplegic Research, known for proposing functioning as a third health indicator alongside mortality and morbidity.
Guillermo Soberon
Guillermo Soberón (Guillermo Soberón Acevedo) was a Mexican physician and biochemist, rector of UNAM from 1973 to 1981 and Mexico's health minister from 1982 to 1988, who founded FUNSALUD.
Helen L. Smits
Helen L. Smits is an American physician who served as Deputy Administrator of Medicare's HCFA from 1993 to 1996 and chaired the Joint Commission board.
Herminia Palacio
Herminia Palacio is an American physician and public health leader who led the Guttmacher Institute and was elected to the National Academy of Medicine in 2023.
Howard K. Koh
Howard K. Koh (Howard Kyongju Koh) is an American physician and Harvard public health professor who served as US Assistant Secretary for Health from 2009 to 2014.
Janine Austin Clayton
Janine Austin Clayton is an American ophthalmologist who has led the NIH Office of Research on Women's Health since 2012 and created its sex-as-a-biological-variable policy.
Jeffrey Kahn
Jeffrey Kahn is an American bioethicist who has directed the Johns Hopkins Berman Institute of Bioethics since 2016 and is an elected member of the National Academy of Medicine.
Jerome Adams
Jerome Adams, American anesthesiologist, 20th U.S. Surgeon General (2017-2021) under Trump, earlier Indiana state health commissioner (2014-2017); issued 2018 naloxone advisory, led COVID-19 messaging, resigned at Biden's request, now Purdue professor.
Jody Heymann
Jody Heymann is an American pediatrician and public health researcher at UCLA who founded the WORLD Policy Analysis Center and studies how laws shape family health.
John Edward Porter
John Edward Porter was an American lawyer and Republican congressman from Illinois who, chairing the House NIH budget subcommittee, led the 1990s campaign to double NIH funding.