List of deans The deans of the school are listed below.
Notable past and present faculty •
Joseph G. Allen, public health expert, director of the Healthy Buildings program •
Andrea Baccarelli, epigeneticist, clinical endocrinologist, and dean of school of public health •
Katherine Baicker, economist, a former member of the
Council of Economic Advisers •
Robert Blendon, political strategy of health and public opinion expert •
Barry Bloom, immunologist and former dean •
David Bloom, economist •
Joseph Brain,
physiologist and
environmental health researcher •
David Canning, economist •
Richard A. Cash, American
global health researcher, developed oral rehydration therapy (ORT) •
Marcia Caldas de Castro, demographer •
Lauren M. Childs, mathematician,
Ruth I. Michler Memorial Prize recipient •
Douglas Dockery, epidemiologist •
Francesca Dominici, senior associate dean for research, professor of biostatistics, data scientist, and air pollution expert •
Arnold Epstein, department chair for health policy and management •
Max Essex, HIV researcher •
Sarah Fortune, immunologist •
Julio Frenk, former dean of school of public health and former
Secretary of Health of Mexico •
Atul Gawande, general and endocrine surgeon •
Sue Goldie, physician and decision scientist,
MacArthur fellowship recipient •
John Graham, policy and decision scientist, former director of the
Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs •
Laurie Glimcher, immunologist •
Alice Hamilton, occupational health and toxicology; first woman appointed to the faculty of
Harvard University •
David Hemenway, economist and injury prevention expert •
Albert Hofman, epidemiologist •
William Hsiao, economist •
Frank Hu, epidemiologist and nutrition researcher •
David Hunter, epidemiologist, Acting Dean of the Faculty and former Dean for Academic Affairs at School of Public Health •
Curtis Huttenhower, computational biologist •
Ashish Jha (MPH'04 and former faculty) served as Dean for Global Strategy 2018–2020 •
Ichiro Kawachi, social epidemiologist •
Howard Koh, public health researcher, the 14th
Assistant Secretary for Health at the
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. •
Margaret Elizabeth Kruk, public health expert, physician, and health systems researcher •
Nan Laird, biostatistician, former head of department •
Alexander H. Leighton, psychiatric epidemiologist •
Richard Levins, ecologist and mathematical biologist •
Xihong Lin, biostatistician and mathematician, 2006
COPSS Presidents' Award recipient •
Jun S. Liu, biostatistician and mathematician, 2002 COPSS Presidents' Award recipient •
Bernard Lown, co-founded the Nobel Peace Prize-winning group Physicians for Social Responsibility; founder of the Lown Cardiovascular Research Foundation •
Adetokunbo Lucas, former director of Tropical Diseases Research at the
World Health Organization (WHO) •
Brian MacMahon, cancer epidemiologist •
Sezan Mahmud, Writer and university professor •
Christopher Murray, physician and health economist •
Kari Nadeau, immunologist •
Joseph Newhouse, economist and director of the
RAND Health Insurance Experiment •
Shuji Ogino, pioneer in
molecular pathological epidemiology •
John Quackenbush, computational biologist and genome scientist •
Eric Rubin, editor-in-chief of
New England Journal of Medicine •
James Robins, epidemiologist and biostatistician •
Pardis Sabeti,
computational biologist,
medical geneticist and
evolutionary geneticist •
Benjamin P. Sachs, Harold H. Rosenfield Professor at Harvard Medical School •
Amartya Sen, economist, Nobel laureate in Economics •
Gita Sen, feminist scholar and specialist in international population policy •
Frank E. Speizer, physician and epidemiologist •
Andrew Spielman, public health entomologist •
Frederick J. Stare, controversial chair of Nutrition Institute •
James H. Ware, biostatistician •
Thomas Huckle Weller, Nobel laureate in Physiology and Medicine •
George C. Whipple, cofounder of School in 1922 •
Dan Wikler, public health and
medical ethicist, philosopher •
Walter Willett, physician and nutrition researcher •
David R. Williams, sociologist and epidemiologist •
Michelle Ann Williams, epidemiologist and former dean of school of public health
Notable alumni There are over 13,484 alumni. •
Anthony Irvine Adams, 2001 Alumni Award of Merit for a distinguished service in public health practice •
James B. Aguayo-Martel, pioneer in ophthalmology •
Gro Harlem Brundtland, former Prime Minister of Norway, former Director-General of the
World Health Organization •
Eli Capilouto, 12th president of the
University of Kentucky •
Mandy Cohen, MPH 2004, physician, current Director of the
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention •
Raquel Eidelman Cohen, MPH 1945, child psychiatrist and international authority on psychological and social consequences of disasters •
Humayun Chaudhry, President and CEO of the
Federation of State Medical Boards •
Mary Cushman, Professor of Medicine and Pathology in the
Robert Larner College of Medicine at the
University of Vermont. •
Winston Dang, head of
Taiwan's
Environmental Protection Administration (2004–08) •
Jonathan Fielding, Director
Los Angeles County Department of Public Health, editor in chief of the
Annual Review of Public Health •
William Foege, MPH 1965, physician, former Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention •
Janina R. Galler, PI and Director of 45+-year
Barbados Nutrition Study in the
Lesser Antilles, in the Americas, showing the intergenerational legacy of poverty and disadvantage from
childhood malnutrition. •
Steven K. Galson, former Acting
Surgeon General of the United States •
Atul Gawande, surgical safety pioneer, MacArthur Fellow, Rhodes Scholar •
Sue Goldie, MacArthur Fellow and decision scientist •
Nadine Burke Harris, pediatrician and first
Surgeon General of California •
Tara O. Henderson, Arthur and Marian Edelstein Professor of Pediatrics,
Pritzker School of Medicine •
Stephen W. Hwang, physician, medical academic, and population health epidemiologist •
Timothy Johnson, chief medical correspondent for ABC News •
Karl Lauterbach, German politician (
SPD), served as Federal Minister of Health since 8 December 2021 •
Alberto P. León, MD, MPH, former Secretary of Health, Mexico •
Jonathan Mann, former head of the World Health Organization global HIV/AIDS program •
John S. Marr, MD, MPH, epidemiologist and author. •
Hilary D. Marston, MD, MPH, former Chief Medical Officer of the US
Food and Drug Administration •
James O. Mason, former Acting Surgeon General of the United States, former Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention •
Shuji Ogino, pioneer in
molecular pathological epidemiology •
Endang Rahayu Sedyaningsih, former Minister of Health of
Indonesia •
David J. Sencer, longest-serving Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention •
Carl G. Streed, physician, researcher, and advocate for the LGBTQ+ community •
Lai Ching-te, physician, incumbent
President of the Republic of China, former
Vice President of the Republic of China •
Rochelle Walensky, MPH 2001, former Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention ==References==