NOTABLE ALUMNI
The School's more than 10,000 graduates can be found working throughout the world, in both the public and
private sectors. Graduates hold major positions in health departments; in hospitals; in national and international organizations; in local, state, and federal government; in voluntary health organizations; in the corporate sector;
and in health care and health promotion organizations.
Among the School's distinguished alumni are:
Gordon Belcourt, M.P.H.'80 Executive director, Montana/Wyoming Tribal Leaders Council; nationally recognized Indian health leader |
Lisa Berkman, Dr.P.H. '77 Thomas D. Cabot Professor of Public Policy and chair, Department of Society, Human Development, and Health, Harvard School of Public Health; pioneer in the field of social epidemiology; nationally known for her research on psychosocial influences on health outcomes |
Michael E. Bird, M.S.W., M.P.H '83 see profile Past president of the American Public Health Association; received the Healthcare Hero Award from the Congressional Black Caucus, the Congressional Hispanic Caucus, the Congressional Native American Caucus, and the Congressional Asian and Pacific American Caucus; SPH Alumnus of the Year 2009 |
Garrett Brown, M.P.H. '91 see profile Compliance officer, Cal/OSHA |
Adolfo Chavez, M.D., M.P.H. '59 Mexico's "father of nutrition"; developed protein-enriched tortillas as a way to deliver better nutrition to the country's poorest citizens. |
Former director of the Institute for Culturally Competent Care at Kaiser Permanente |
Jack C. Chow M.D., M.S. '85 Assistant director general, HIV/AIDS/TB & Malaria, World Health Organization |
Chancellor, University of California, San Francisco; former president, product development, Genentech |
Former Director, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and administrator, Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry; Public Health Alumna of the Year 2003 |
William H. Gurtner, M.P.H. '70 Vice president, clinical services development, University of California, Office of the President; coordinates the UC System's clinical enterprise activities on its five medical campuses |
Cofounder of the World Institute on Disability; former assistant secretary, U.S. Dept. of Education, Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services; World Bank disability adviser; School of Public Health's 1981 Alumna of the Year; received the California Alumni Association's 1999 "Excellence in Achievement Award" |
Former director of the CDC's National Center for Environmental Health; former California state public health officer; coauthor of Urban Sprawl and Public Health; SPH Alumnus of the Year 2005; professor and chair, Environmental Health Sciences, UCLA School of Public Health |
Professor of epidemiology and public health, University College London Medical School; director of the Centre for Health and Society; knighted by Queen Elizabeth on Jan. 1, 2000, in recognition of his outstanding work in describing and explaining social inequalities in health |
President and CEO, California Emerging Technology Fund; former California secretary of business, transportation and housing |
Professor and director of public health initiatives, Department of Nutrition, Food Studies, and Public Health, New York University; author of Food Politics: How the Food Industry Influences Nutrition and Health; SPH Alumna of the Year, 2004 |
CEO, Public Health Institute; former president, Health Research and Education Trust |
Venkataram Ramakrishna, M.D., M.P.H. '55 Director, South East Asia Regional Bureau for the International Union for Health Promotion and Education Bangalore, India; established anti-tobacco, community mental health, and water supply and sanitation programs in India; received the 1996 Elise and Walter A. Haas International Award |
President & CEO, California Center for Connected Health; former director, California Department of Health Services |
Director of adolescent medicine, Children's Hospital & Research Center Oakland; received the 2008 Regional Public Health Hero from UC Berkeley |
President and CEO of the Center for Elders Independence |
Director of planning, development, and policy, Tiburcio Vasquez Health Center |
Associate administrator for Maternal and Child Health, Health Resources & Services Administration, U.S. Department of Health & Human Services |
Former director of the San Francisco Health Department (1985-1990); instrumental in addressing the city's AIDS epidemic |
Professor of medicine, Stanford University; Cofounder, Stanford Medical Youth Science Program |
Nilda Chong, M.D., Dr.P.H. '00 
Susan Desmond-Hellmann, M.D., M.P.H. '88
Julie L. Gerberding, M.D., M.P.H. '90
Judith E. Heumann, M.P.H. '75
Richard J. Jackson, M.D., M.P.H. '79
Sir Michael Marmot, Ph.D. '75, M.P.H. '72
Sunne Wright McPeak, M.P.H. '71
Marion Nestle, Ph.D., M.P.H. '86
Mary Pittman, Dr.P.H. '87
Sandra Shewry, M.S.W., M.P.H. '81
Barbara Staggers, M.D., M.P.H. '80
Peter Szutu, M.P.H. '81
Barbara Terrazas M.P.H. '76 
Peter C. van Dyck, M.D., M.P.H. '73
David Werdegar, M.D., M.P.H. '70
Marilyn Winkleby, Ph.D., '86, M.P.H. '83