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John H. Moxley III
John H. Moxley III (born 1935) is an American physician and health-policy leader who served as Assistant Secretary of Defense for Health Affairs and dean of two medical schools.
John M. Balbus
John M. Balbus is an American physician who led the HHS Office of Climate Change and Health Equity from 2021 to 2025 and was elected to the National Academy of Medicine.
John R. Lumpkin
John R. Lumpkin is an American physician and public health leader, the first African American trained in emergency medicine, who led the Illinois Department of Public Health for 12 years.
John W. Bussman
John W. Bussman is an American physician and health-policy official who, as Medical Director of Oregon's Medicaid agency, wrote the 1993 defense of the Oregon Health Plan.
John W. Rowe
John W. Rowe, also known as John Wallis Rowe, is an American geriatrician and health policy professor at Columbia, known for the concept of successful aging and for leading Aetna.
Joycelyn Elders
Joycelyn Elders (Minnie Lee Jones, born 1933), Arkansas pediatric endocrinologist, state health director under Governor Clinton, and 15th U.S. Surgeon General (1993–1994), the first African American in the role, resigned after remarks on masturbation education.
Kiyoshi Kurokawa (黒川清)
Kiyoshi Kurokawa (黒川清) is a Japanese nephrologist and health-policy scholar, professor emeritus at the University of Tokyo and GRIPS, who chaired the National Diet's Fukushima nuclear accident investigation commission.
Lawrence S. Lewin
Lawrence S. Lewin (1938–2012) was an American health policy consultant who founded The Lewin Group, a Washington-based consulting firm, and was elected to the Institute of Medicine in 1984.
Leana Wen
Leana Wen, American emergency physician and public health professor at George Washington University; former Baltimore health commissioner (2015-2018) and Planned Parenthood president (2018-2019); CNN medical analyst and Washington Post columnist known for COVID-19 commentary.
Leon Kass
Leon Kass, born in 1935, is an American physician, biochemist, and bioethicist at the University of Chicago known for his 1997 essay against human cloning, "The Wisdom of Repugnance."
Maeve Kennedy McKean
Maeve Kennedy McKean (1979-2020), also Maeve McKean, was a public health and human rights lawyer, Georgetown Global Health Initiative executive director, RFK granddaughter, who died with son Gideon in a 2020 Chesapeake Bay canoe accident.
Merlin K. DuVal
Merlin K. DuVal, known as Monte DuVal, was an American surgeon who founded the University of Arizona College of Medicine and served as U.S. Assistant Secretary for Health from 1971 to 1973.
Nancy Nielsen
Nancy Nielsen is an American physician and health policy expert at the University at Buffalo who served as president of the American Medical Association from 2008 to 2009.
Patrick Vallance
Patrick Vallance (Lord Vallance) is a British physician and former GSK R&D president who was UK Government Chief Scientific Adviser 2018-2023, co-chaired SAGE during COVID-19, testified to the Covid-19 Inquiry, and later served as science minister.
Paul Grant Rogers
Paul Grant Rogers (1921–2008) was an American lawyer and Democratic U.S. Representative from Florida who shaped most major American health legislation over 24 years in Congress, earning the nickname "Mr. Health".
Rachel Levine
Rachel Levine, American pediatrician and public health official; Pennsylvania physician general (2015) and health secretary (2017), then HHS assistant secretary for health (2021), first openly transgender federal official confirmed by the Senate and first female four-star admiral of the USPHS Commissioned Corps.
Ricardo Martinez (emergency physician)
Ricardo Martinez is an American emergency physician and injury-prevention researcher who served as NHTSA Administrator from 1994 to 1999 and was elected to the National Academy of Medicine in 2004.
Richard A. Berman
Richard A. Berman is an American academic executive and health-policy administrator at the University of South Florida and an elected member of the National Academy of Medicine.
Robert Graham (physician)
Robert Graham is an American family physician who led the American Academy of Family Physicians from 1985 to 2000 and was elected to the Institute of Medicine in 1990.
Robert R. Redfield
Robert R. Redfield, virologist and 18th CDC director (2018-2021), HIV researcher at Walter Reed and University of Maryland; later prominent lab-leak advocate for COVID-19 origins.
Ronald Bayer
Ronald Bayer is Professor Emeritus of Sociomedical Sciences at Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health, known for work on the ethics of AIDS, tuberculosis, and tobacco control.
Sally C. Davies
Dame Sally C. Davies is a British physician who served as Chief Medical Officer for England from 2011 to 2019, the first woman to hold the post.
Sarah Jane Halton
Jane Halton is an Australian public servant who was Secretary of the Department of Health and Ageing from 2002 to 2014 and now chairs CEPI.
Scott Atlas
Scott W. Atlas, Stanford neuroradiologist and Hoover Institution fellow, was Trump's Special COVID-19 Advisor (August–December 2020), advocated focused protection over lockdowns, and was censured by Stanford's Faculty Senate.
Scott Gottlieb
Scott Gottlieb (born 1972) is an American physician and investor, 23rd FDA Commissioner (May 2017 to April 2019), later a Pfizer and Illumina board member, AEI senior fellow, and author of Uncontrolled Spread.
Stephanie Haridopolos
Stephanie Haridopolos is an American family medicine physician and public health official who serves as Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary for Health–Policy and Director of National Health Communications.
Susan Monarez
Susan Coller Monarez, American microbiologist and immunologist, first Senate-confirmed CDC director; confirmed July 29, 2025 (51-47), sworn in July 31, fired August 27, 2025 after 29 days in a vaccine-policy clash with HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
Theodore Cooper
Theodore Cooper (1928–1993) was an American physician and federal health official who directed the National Heart and Lung Institute and shaped the 1976 Medical Device Amendments.
Theresa Tam
Theresa Tam (Theresa Wing Sze Tam) is a Canadian physician and paediatric infectious disease specialist who served as Canada's Chief Public Health Officer from June 26, 2017 to June 2025, the first woman in the role, leading the COVID-19 response and vaccination campaign.
Thomas E. Malone
Thomas E. Malone was an American biomedical research administrator who served as the sixth Deputy Director of the National Institutes of Health from 1977 to 1986.