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Jerome Adams is US surgeon general and vice admiral of the US Public Health Service Commissioned Corps. During his tenure, he has created several initiatives to tackle pressin...
Paul Aisen is founding director of University of Southern California’s Alzheimer’s Therapeutic Research Institute, where he collaborates with academic groups and pharmaceutica...
Noon Altijani Osman Abbakar is a Sudanese physician and doctoral candidate in population health at University of Oxford. Her current research addresses maternal mortality, hea...
Padmanabhan Anandan is CEO of Wadhwani Institute for Artificial Intelligence, a nonprofit research institute with the mission of AI for social good. A researcher in computer v...
David Anderson is president and CEO of HealthNow, which operates as BlueCross BlueShield Western New York, BlueShield of Northeastern New York, and HealthNow Administrative Se...
Deborah Arnott is chief executive of the UK campaigning charity Action on Smoking and Health, an honorary associate professor at the University of Nottingham Division of Epide...
Sanjeev Arora is the founder and director of Project ECHO (Extension for Community Healthcare Outcomes) and a Distinguished Professor of Medicine in the Department of Internal...
Wendo Aszed is founder and executive director of Dandelion Africa, a grassroots organization in Kenya focused on women’s health economic empowerment. A former bank executive,...
Patti Austin is a singer and total entertainer who first stepped onto the stage of Harlem’s Apollo Theater at the age of four. The daughter of a jazz trombonist, she became a...
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Rick Balentine is fire chief and CEO of the Aspen Fire Protection District, since 2014. A volunteer firefighter for 24 years before that, he has been elected to most of Aspen...
Richard Baron is president and CEO of the American Board of Internal Medicine (ABIM) and the ABIM Foundation, a position he has held since 2013. Previously, he was group direc...
Vic Barrett is one of 21 youth activists suing the government to take action on climate change in Juliana v. United States. The suit claims the government violated youth right...
Richard Berke is the founder and executive editor of STAT, a Boston-based national media company that covers health, medicine, and science. He was previously executive editor...
Richard Besser is president and CEO of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, since 2017. He was previously chief health and medical editor for ABC News. Prior to that, Besser di...
Kirsten Bibbins-Domingo is the Lee Goldman, MD Endowed Chair in Medicine at University of California, San Francisco, where she is a professor of medicine and chairs the Depart...
Agnes Binagwaho is a pediatrician, vice chancellor and professor of pediatrics at the University of Global Health Equity, a senior lecturer in the Pediatric Department of Glob...