Honorary membership is conferred upon persons possessing exceptional qualifications, who have attained meritorious national or international distinction in the field of public health. Persons may be nominated for honorary membership by any chapter, or by any member of the National Council. Below is a list of honorary members inducted by the national office. For a complete list of honorary members inducted by Delta Omega chapters, set your Type of Induction Filter to “honorary” on this list: https://deltaomega.org/national-member-list/

This year’s Honorary Member Vivek Murthy shared a video upon receiving this honor. Vivek H. Murthy was confirmed by the U.S. Senate in March 2021 to serve as the 21st Surgeon General of the United States. As the Nation’s Doctor, the Surgeon General’s mission is to help lay the foundation for a healthier country, relying on the best scientific information available to provide clear, consistent, and equitable guidance and resources for the public. And as the Vice Admiral of the U.S. Public Health Service Commissioned Corps, Dr. Murthy commands a uniformed service of over 6,000 dedicated public health officers, serving the most underserved and vulnerable populations domestically and abroad.

While serving as 21st Surgeon General, Dr. Murthy is focused on drawing attention to and working across government to address a number of critical public health issues, including the growing proliferation of health misinformation, the ongoing youth mental health crisis, well-being and burnout in the health worker community, and social isolation and loneliness. Additionally, he serves as a key advisor to President Biden’s COVID-19 pandemic response operation.

During his previous tenure as 19th Surgeon General, under President Obama, Dr. Murthy created initiatives to tackle our country’s most pressing public health challenges. The first Surgeon General of Indian descent and the youngest active duty flag officer in federal uniformed service, he helped lead the national response to a range of health challenges, including the Ebola and Zika viruses, the opioid crisis, and the growing threat of stress and loneliness to Americans’ physical and mental wellbeing. Dr. Murthy also continued the office’s legacy on preventing tobacco-related disease, releasing a historic Surgeon General’s report on e-cigarettes and youth. And in 2016, he issued the first Surgeons General’s Report on Alcohol, Drugs and Health, in which he challenged the nation to expand access to prevention and treatment, and to recognize addiction as a chronic illness, not a character flaw.

Prior to his second confirmation, Dr. Murthy co-chaired President-elect Joe Biden’s COVID-19 Advisory Board from November 2020 to January 2021. Before entering government service, Dr. Murthy co-founded VISIONS, a global HIV/AIDS education organization; the Swasthya Project, a rural health partnership that trained women in South India to become community health workers and educators; TrialNetworks, a technology company dedicated to improving collaboration and efficiency in clinical trials; and Doctors for America, a nonprofit mobilizing physicians and medical students to improve access to affordable care. His scientific research has focused on vaccine development and the participation of women and minorities in clinical trials. And as an internal medicine doctor at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and at Harvard Medical School, Dr. Murthy cared for thousands of patients and trained undergraduates, medical students, and medical residents.

Raised in Miami, Dr. Murthy received his Bachelor of Arts degree from Harvard, his MD from the Yale School of Medicine, and his Masters in Business Administration from the Yale School of Management. A renowned physician, research scientist, entrepreneur, mango aficionado, and author of the bestselling book Together: The Healing Power of Human Connection in a Sometimes Lonely World, Dr. Murthy is today among the most trusted voices in America on matters of public health. He lives in Washington, DC with his wife, Dr. Alice Chen, and their two children.

Dr. Fauci is the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) at the U.S. National Institutes of Health. He oversees an extensive portfolio of basic and applied research to prevent, diagnose, and treat established infectious diseases such as HIV/AIDS, respiratory infections, diarrheal diseases, tuberculosis, and malaria as well as emerging diseases such as Ebola and Zika.  NIAID also supports research on transplantation and immune-related illnesses, including autoimmune disorders, asthma, and allergies. The NIAID budget for fiscal year 2022 is approximately $6.3 billion.

Dr. Fauci has been a key advisor to seven Presidents and their administrations on global HIV/AIDS issues, and on initiatives to bolster medical and public health preparedness against emerging infectious disease threats such as pandemic influenza and COVID-19. Currently, he is the Chief Medical Advisor to President Joe Biden.  As an HIV/AIDS researcher he has been involved in the scientific effort since AIDS was recognized in 1981, conducting pivotal studies that underpin the current understanding of the disease and efforts to develop therapies and tools of prevention.  Dr. Fauci was one of the principal architects of the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR), which has helped save millions of lives throughout the developing world.

Dr. Fauci also is the longtime chief of the Laboratory of Immunoregulation. He has made many contributions to basic and clinical research on the pathogenesis and treatment of immune-mediated and infectious diseases. He helped pioneer the field of human immunoregulation by making important basic scientific observations that underpin the current understanding of the regulation of the human immune response. In addition, Dr. Fauci is widely recognized for delineating the precise ways that immunosuppressive agents modulate the human immune response. He developed effective therapies for formerly fatal inflammatory and immune-mediated diseases such as polyarteritis nodosa, granulomatosis with polyangiitis (formerly Wegener’s granulomatosis), and lymphomatoid granulomatosis. A 1985 Stanford University Arthritis Center Survey of the American Rheumatism Association membership ranked Dr. Fauci’s work on the treatment of polyarteritis nodosa and granulomatosis with polyangiitis among the most important advances in patient management in rheumatology over the previous 20 years.

Dr. Fauci has made seminal contributions to the understanding of how HIV destroys the body’s defenses leading to its susceptibility to deadly infections. Further, he has been instrumental in developing treatments that enable people with HIV to live long and active lives. He continues to devote much of his research to the immunopathogenic mechanisms of HIV infection and the scope of the body’s immune responses to HIV.

In a 2022 analysis of Google Scholar citations, Dr. Fauci ranked as the 44th most-cited living researcher. According to the Web of Science, Dr. Fauci ranked 9th out of 3.3 million authors in the field of immunology by total citation count between 1980 and April 2022. During the same period, he ranked 22th out of 3.3 million authors in the field of research & experimental medicine, and 715th out of 1.4 million authors in the field of general & internal medicine.

Dr. Fauci has delivered major lectures all over the world and is the recipient of numerous prestigious awards, including the Presidential Medal of Freedom (the highest honor given to a civilian by the President of the United States), the National Medal of Science, the George M. Kober Medal of the Association of American Physicians, the Mary Woodard Lasker Award for Public Service, the Albany Medical Center Prize in Medicine and Biomedical Research, the Robert Koch Gold Medal, the Prince Mahidol Award, and the Canada Gairdner Global Health Award. He also has received 58 honorary doctoral degrees from universities in the United States and abroad.

Dr. Fauci is a member of the National Academy of Sciences, the National Academy of Medicine, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the American Philosophical Society, as well as other professional societies including the American College of Physicians, the American Society for Clinical Investigation, the Association of American Physicians, the Infectious Diseases Society of America, the American Association of Immunologists, and the American Academy of Allergy, Asthma & Immunology. He serves on the editorial boards of many scientific journals and as an author, coauthor, or editor of more than 1,400 scientific publications, including several textbooks.

Bryan Stevenson is the founder and Executive Director of the Equal Justice Initiative, a human rights organization in Montgomery, Alabama. Under his leadership, EJI has won major legal challenges eliminating excessive and unfair sentencing, exonerating innocent death row prisoners, confronting abuse of the incarcerated and the mentally ill, and aiding children prosecuted as adults.

Mr. Stevenson has argued and won multiple cases at the United States Supreme Court, including a 2019 ruling protecting condemned prisoners who suffer from dementia and a landmark 2012 ruling that banned mandatory life-imprisonment-without-parole sentences for all children 17 or younger. Mr. Stevenson and his staff have won reversals, relief, or release from prison for over 135 wrongly condemned prisoners on death row and won relief for hundreds of others wrongly convicted or unfairly sentenced.

Mr. Stevenson has initiated major new anti-poverty and anti-discrimination efforts that challenge inequality in America. He led the creation of two highly acclaimed cultural sites which opened in 2018: the Legacy Museum and the National Memorial for Peace and Justice. These new national landmark institutions chronicle the legacy of slavery, lynching, and racial segregation, and the connection to mass incarceration and contemporary issues of racial bias.

Governor Gretchen Whitmer was inducted as Delta Omega honorary member in recognition of her commitment to improving the lives of all Michiganers by addressing everyday barriers to better health. In addition to recognizing racism as a public health crisis, she also sees the importance of investing in preventative care and reducing the public health disparities affecting so many in her state. She exemplifies distinguished service in public health and believes, “one of the principal duties of any governor is to protect and promote the health and wellbeing of our state’s residents.”

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Kimberlydawn Wisdom, MD, MS was inducted as the 2015 National Honorary Member at the National Council Meeting at APHA 2015. Dr. Wisdom is the Senior Vice President of Community Health & Equity and Chief Wellness and Diversity Officer at Henry Ford Health System. She is a board-certified Emergency Medicine physician, the Chair of the Gail and Lois Warden Endowment on Multicultural Health, and Michigan’s and the nation’s First State-level Surgeon General. In 2012 she was appointed by President Obama to serve on the Advisory Group on Prevention, Health Promotion and Integrative and Public Health. Since 1987 she has been on the faculty of University of Michigan (UM) Medical School’s Department of Medical Education and adjunct professor in the UM School of Public Health. Dr. Wisdom focuses on health disparities/health care equity, infant mortality/maternal and child health, chronic disease, unintended pregnancy, physical inactivity, unhealthy eating habits, and tobacco use. She has worked collaboratively with school districts, faith-based organizations and the business community.

Dr. Wisdom provides strong leadership in community benefit/population health, and improving the health of those disproportionately affected by poor health outcomes. She founded the award-winning African American Initiative for Male Health Improvement (AIM –HI) and most recently, the Women Inspired Neighborhood (WIN) Network which aims to improve access to healthcare and reduce infant mortality in neighborhoods in Detroit. Since 2008, she has chaired the Detroit Infant Mortality Reduction Task Force. In 2007, she founded a youth leadership development effort – Generation With Promise (GWP) – designed to equip youth to drive policy, environmental and behavioral change in their school and community. GWP youth were featured on the cover of Modern Healthcare in June 2014. Dr. Wisdom is the recipient of numerous awards, has authored several peer-reviewed publications and book chapters and appeared on national television, including ABC’s Nightline, and has presented to audiences across the country and internationally.

Col Damon T. Arnold, M.D., M.P.H., CMT (Ret.) has served has the Director of the Public Health Graduate Program at Chicago State University and an Adjunct Professor at the University of Illinois College of Medicine and the School of Public Health. Dr. Arnold was appointed as the 16th Director of Public Health on October 1, 2007 for the State of Illinois where he operated an agency of 1123 employees with an annual budget of over 600 million dollars. The agency was responsible for the public health concerns of the approximately 12.5 million residents within, and millions of annual travelers to, the State of Illinois. During his four years in this position, he brought millions of dollars to the State of Illinois and was very active on the local, state, and federal levels.
For 26 years, Dr. Arnold served in the Army National Guard as the Commander of the Joint Medical Command and State Surgeon General for years. He completed 17 over-seas missions to include locations in Africa, Central America, South America, Europe, the Middle East, and Asia. He was awarded the highly coveted Military Legion of Merit Medal from President Barack Obama for his achievements. Dr. Arnold was also awarded three Army Commendation Medals for his war-time deployments to Iraq and Kuwait where he served as the Officer in Charge of battlefield medical operations. During these deployments, he functioned as a mechanized infantry Combat Medic as well as a qualified Flight Surgeon on over 80 field operations. In addition, he received two National Defense Service Medals as well as awards upon the battle field.

Dr. Arnold obtained his undergraduate degree from Howard University in Washington, D.C. and both his M.D. and M.P.H. Degrees from the University of Illinois in Chicago, Illinois. He completed his Residency in Internal Medicine at Cook County Hospital, followed by a Residency in Occupational Medicine. In addition, he has completed formal training in Holistic Medicine for therapeutic massage therapy and acupuncture.

Dr. Arnold presently serves as a member of the Harvard University L.A.M.P.S.

Every Year the National Office and Executive Committee honor an individual who exemplifies excellence in the field of public health. This year, Delta Omega is pleased to bestow upon Dr. Joseph West honorary membership in the society. Honorary membership is conferred only upon persons possessing exceptional qualifications, who have attained meritorious national or international distinction in the field of public health. Dr. West, Senior Epidemiologist and Program Director and Adjunct Assistant Professor Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, accepted the award and spoke about his public health career. Dr. West was inducted on November 4, 2013.

Dr. William Harvey, PhD, was the public health liaison to the National Association of Advisors to the Health Professions (NAAHP) for the past decade. The NAAHP is the membership organization for over 1,000 pre-health advisors most of whom are located at undergraduate colleges across the country. The NAAHP members have a tremendous influence on the future education and training of undergraduate students, who often are not aware of healthcare options beyond medicine. NAAHP was original part of the Association of American Medical Colleges and is steeped in history of a close alliance with medicine. While it has expanded its scope quite a bit over the last decade, many of the pre-health advisors still consider medicine the first career choice for pre-health students.

Dr. Harvey is a pre-health advisor (and faculty of biology at Earlham College), and his role as public health liaison is to ensure that public health is represented in NAAHP programming and priorities. As a public health representative, Dr. Harvey has been a passionate advocate for public health, reminding the NAAHP governing body and his peers that public health is an important career option and that all health careers should be considered carefully. He has been tireless in his efforts to make public health more visible to the pre-health advisor community. For example, Dr. Harvey coordinates a special educational track for pre-health advisors at the bi-annual Disease Detective events, and he also was instrumental in the development of the advisors toolkit for public health.

In related activities, Dr. Harvey was part of the original committee which created SOPHAS and has been an active part of the ASPPH Education Committee working on undergraduate public health education. Dr. Harvey also consults with colleges and universities interested in developing public health programs. All in all, Dr. Harvey is exactly the type of advocate we need more to promote public health among students and advisors.

Vice Admiral Regina M. Benjamin, MD, MBA is the 18th Surgeon General of the United States. As America’s Doctor, she provides the public with the best scientific information available on how to improve their health and the health of the nation. Dr. Benjamin also oversees the operational command of 6,500 uniformed health officers who serve in locations around the world to promote, and protect the health of the American People. Dr. Benjamin is Founder and Former CEO of the Bayou La Batre Rural Health Clinic in Alabama, former Associate Dean for Rural Health at the University of South Alabama College of Medicine in Mobile, and Past Chair of the Federation of State Medical Boards of the United States.

Dr. Benjamin is a member of the National Academy of Science’s Institute of Medicine, and a Fellow of the American Academy of Family Physicians. She was a Kellogg National Fellow and a Rockefeller Next Generation Leader. Dr. Benjamin has a BS in chemistry from Xavier University, New Orleans; attended Morehouse School of Medicine, and received her MD degree from the University of Alabama, Birmingham. She also has an MBA from Tulane University and fifteen honorary doctorates.

Dr. Benjamin was inducted into the Delta Omega Honorary Society in Public Health as the 2011 National Honorary Member. Though she was unable to attend the National Council Meeting, she did show her support for the society by coming to Delta Omega’s exhibition booth during the American Public Health Association’s 2011 Exposition.

Dr. Lesley Russell, the Senior Public Health Advisor in the Office of the Surgeon General, accepted the honor on Dr. Benjamin’s behalf, and delivered the meeting’s keynote address. In reviewing the history of the field and service, she highlighted the importance of excellence in public health. Dr. Russell thanked the society on the Surgeon General’s behalf for the great honor.

Dr. Kristine Gebbie was named Joan Grabe Dean at Hunter College, City University of New York in September of 2009. She served for 14 years as Elizabeth Standish Gill Professor of Nursing and Director, Center for Health Policy at Columbia University School of Nursing where she led multiple research projects related to emergency preparedness, competency-based education, public health practice, and nursing. Her current research continues her interests in public health infrastructure and public health law, and she continues to be a leader in developing the public health workforce for the 21st century.

Previously, Dr. Gebbie has served as National AIDS Policy Coordinator for the White House and the Acting Director of Public Health Strategies for the HHS Office of the Assistant Secretary for Health.

In addition to service in professional societies, she is a member of the Board of Trustees of Lutheran Medical Center, Brooklyn, New York. She is widely published in nursing, public health, and policy journals. Her education includes a BSN from St. Olaf College, Minnesota; MN from UCLA School of Nursing and DrPH from University of Michigan School of Public Health. She is an elected member of the American Academy of Nursing, the Institute of Medicine and the New York Academy of Medicine.

John M. Barry is a writer and historian, yet he has significant impact on public health in two distinct areas. In both instances, his role has grown out of his writing.

His book “Rising Tide: The Great Mississippi Flood of 1927 and How It Changed America” won the Francis Parkman Prize of the Society of American Historians for 1997’s best book of American history. The book influenced views of flood protection, demonstrating the need for an integrated and comprehensives approach, the world, and that impact was recognized when the National Academy of Sciences invited him to become the first non-scientist to give the annual Abel Wolman Distinguished Lecture on Water Resources. Since Hurricane Katrina he has played a leading role in national and international flood protection. Immediately after the storm, the Louisiana Congressional delegation asked him to chair a bipartisan working group on flood control, and he has worked not only regionally and nationally but with the United Nations on flooding issues and preparedness, including in the public health sector. In 2007 a Democratic governor appointed him to two new government authorities, the Southeast Louisiana Flood Protection Authority East, which oversees several levee districts in the metropolitan New Orleans area, and the Louisiana Coastal Protection and Restoration Authority, which develops and implements the hurricane protection plan for the state. In 2009 a Republican governor reappointed him to both positions.

His second area of impact on public health has been on influenza pandemic preparedness, beginning with his book “The Great Influenza: The story of the deadliest pandemic in history.” The National Academy of Sciences recognized this work with its 2005 Keck Award, given to the year’s best book on medicine or science. More importantly, the book also helped energize efforts to prepare for a pandemic. According to several sources, it played a key role in convincing Congress to appropriate money for this purpose, Barry has also been directly involved in preparedness planning efforts. For this, the Center for Biodefense and Emerging Pathogens gave him its 2005 September 11th Award. He has advised both the Bush and Obama administrations and numerous state and local public health agencies, particularly in analyzing historical data that relates both to risk communication and non-pharmaceutical interventions. Currently he is Distinguished Scholar at the Center for Bioenvironmental Research of Tulane and Xavier Universities.

Barbara A. DeBuono, M.D., M.P.H. is Executive Director, Public Health and Government, WW Global Pharmaceuticals, Pfizer Inc. She is responsible for creating and managing public-private partnership programs in public health innovation, health policy, education, and research. These programs include supporting public health research in clear health communication; supporting education, career development and research in academic medical and public health environments through research grants and career development awards; and the publication of Advancing Healthy Populations, The Pfizer Career Guide in Public Health, The Faces of Public Health, Milestones in Public Health and Moments in Leadership: Case Studies in Public Health Policy and Practice.

Dr. DeBuono also provides strategic medical, public health, and policy input to Pfizer’s business units providing the state and federal government perspective to access and reimbursement issues. She leads Pfizer’s Clear Health Communication Initiative and serves as Chair of the Board of the Partnership for Clear Health Communication that she founded on Pfizer’s behalf. In 2005, Dr. DeBuono served as Senior Consultant to the World Health Organization (WHO), assigned to their Southeast Asia Regional Office in New Delhi to review public health aspects of the Tsunami Relief and Recovery Operations. She worked with the WHO offices in the Maldives and Thailand.

Prior to joining Pfizer in 2000, Dr. DeBuono was Chief Executive, New York-Presbyterian Healthcare Network, and Executive Vice President of the New York Presbyterian Healthcare System. Previously, she served as Commissioner of Health for the State of New York, where she shaped a health care reform agenda that included developing the state’s comprehensive Medicaid Managed Care program promoting quality improvement and primary care access. Under her leadership, the hospital finance system in New York was deregulated through the elimination of the state’s rate setting system and she led New York’s implementation of the Child Health Insurance Program. She also oversaw the implementation of pediatric HIV legislation and restructuring of New York State’s AIDS Institute and its advisory board.

Dr. DeBuono has also served at the Rhode Island Department of Health as Director of Disease Control and State Epidemiologist, and was appointed Director of the Department in 1991. In Rhode Island, she established the nation’s first comprehensive Breast Cancer Screening and Quality Assurance program and authored comprehensive AIDS legislation.

Dr. DeBuono has served on many health policy boards, including the Advisory Committee to the Director of the Centers for Disease Control, the CDC Foundation Corporate Roundtable, the Center for Health Policy Development and the Partnership for Prevention. She is a member of the Medical Society of the State of New York, The American Public Health Association, the American Medical Association, and the American College of Physicians. She was named by Secretary of HHS Michael Leavitt to serve on the Board of Scientific Counselors at the National Center for Health Marketing of the CDC. She has been published extensively in numerous peer-review journals, and was acknowledged in the Institute of Medicine’s 2004 report, Health Literacy: A Prescription to End Confusion , for her input and assistance in its development.

In 2005, the CDC Foundation honored Dr. DeBuono as one of five Public Health Heroes nationwide. Also in 2005, she received the W.E. Upjohn Award from Pfizer, which acknowledges the achievements of those colleagues whose work and lives best reflect Pfizer’s core values—integrity, innovation, respect for people, customer focus, leadership, performance, teamwork, community and quality. In 2006, she was honored by the Women’s Venture Fund and received their Highest Leaf Award for women who have exhibited creativity, risk taking, and leadership in their careers. In 2007, Dr. DeBuono was honored by the National Organization of Italian American Women for her work in medicine and public health.

Dr. DeBuono received her B.A. from the University of Rochester (Rochester, NY) and her medical degree from the University Of Rochester School Of Medicine. She received her Masters in Public Health from the Harvard University School of Public Health (Boston, MA).

A strong advocate for access to primary care for children and adults, Dr. DeBuono remains a champion of basic public health principles that call for the assurance of a safe and healthy environment for everyone. In her transition from the public to private sector, Dr. DeBuono has been able to bring her public health and health policy skills into the corporate setting where she serves as an expert and driver of public health and prevention initiatives within Pfizer.

Mike Gemmell is the former executive director of the Association of Schools of Public Health (ASPH). He is responsible for managing the operational and fiscal affairs of ASPH, the national association of the 29 deans of the U.S. schools of public health. His responsibilities include directing and coordinating ASPH legislative and educational activities, recruiting and training staff, representing ASPH interests before the Congress, the Administration and abroad, providing information on academic public health activities to the schools of public health and others, and coordinating academic public health policy development for ASPH.

Prior to his appointment as ASPH executive director, Mr. Gemmell worked for the National Association of Counties (NACo) from 1967-1978. There he was a researcher and principal investigator on several projects providing technical assistance and information to local governments on economic development, criminal justice, regional planning and public health services. In 1971, he became director of the human resources center, the focal point for NACo human services programs and research projects. Later he was made an associate director of NACo for all health and education programs, including legislation. He was also executive secretary of NACHO, the National Association of County Health Officials.

Mike Gemmell received his B.A. in political science from Millsaps College in Mississippi (1966) and his M.A. degree in government and politics from The Catholic University of America in Washington, DC (1968). In 1987, he was awarded the CAE (certified association executive) by the American Society of Association Executives (ASAE), a designation for achievement in the association management field.

He contributes to Public Health Reports and contributed to the American Journal of Preventive Medicine, has written and co-authored articles and manuals in such areas as environmental health, water resources, rural development, traffic safety, criminal justice, health planning and has lectured extensively on the federal legislative process throughout the country. He has been elected to the governing council of the American Public Health Association, past president of the Federation of Associations of Schools of the Health Professions and past president of the Coalition for Health Funding, a coalition of over forty major health associations in Washington, DC. He still serves on the CHF executive committee.

Claude Earl Fox, MD, MPH, was appointed as the Administrator of the Health Resources and Services Administration on May 12,1998. HRSA, with a $4.6 billion budget for Fiscal Year 2000, leads the nation’s efforts to open access to health care for all Americans, including poor, uninsured and isolated individuals and families, through an array of grants to state and local governments, health care providers and health professions training programs. HRSA supports 607 community health centers; funds services for people living with HIV/AIDS through the Ryan White CARE (Comprehensive AIDS Resources Emergency) Act; assists states and health care organizations improve services to mothers and children; oversees the national system that allocates organs, tissue and bone marrow for transplant; and works with academic health centers and other training programs to enhance the diversity and distribution of the nation’s health care workforce.

From March 1997 until this appointment, Dr. Fox served as HRSA’s acting administrator, where he has been instrumental in many departmental initiatives. He was involved in the development of the Administration’s Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP) to help extend coverage to children whose families earn too much to quality for Medicaid but too little to afford private insurance; the Presidential Initiative to Eliminate Racial Disparities in Health; and the development of Healthy People 2010, the nation’s health agenda for the new millennium.

Local, state and federal service have distinguished Dr. Fox’s career as a public health care advocate. He came to HRSA from the HHS Office of Disease Prevention and Health Promotion, where he was deputy assistant secretary for health from Nov. 1995 to March 1997. He previously served as HHS regional health administrator, overseeing federal health and human service programs in Pennsylvania, Maryland, Virginia, West Virginia, Delaware and the District of Columbia. He has also enjoyed a distinguished public health career at the state and local levels, including tenure as the state health officer in Alabama from 1986 to 1992 and deputy state health officer in Mississippi, 1983 to 1986.

Born on Nov. 8,1946, Dr. Fox was reared in Charleston, MI. He received his M.D. degree from the University of Mississippi School of Medicine in 1972. His first clinical experience was at a local health department in Charleston, a recipient of HRSA funds. He earned a master of public health degree at the University of North Carolina and served pediatric residencies at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore and at the University of Mississippi Medical Center in Jackson. Dr. Fox is licensed to practice medicine in Maryland, is board certified in preventive medicine and public health, and board qualified in pediatrics.

Congressman John Edward Porter was inducted as an honorary member of Delta Omega on May 10, 2000 by the national office. He was inducted to recognize his work in Congress as a strong champion on public health.

Congressman John Edward Porter (R-10th) of Illinois is currently serving his eleventh term in the United States House of Representatives. Porter is a senior member of the House Appropriations Committee, Vice-Chairman of the Foreign Operations Subcommittee, and Chairman of the Labor, Health & Human Services and Education Subcommittee. He also serves on the Military Construction Subcommittee. He is founder and co-chairman of the Congressional Human Rights Caucus, a voluntary bipartisan association of members of Congress working to identify, monitor and end human rights violations worldwide.

Porter has been recognized repeatedly by the National Taxpayers Union, Watchdogs of the Treasury, Inc., and many other groups as one of the Congress’ most fiscally conservative members. In 1992, he was one of only six out of 435 House members named a “Taxpayer Superhero” by the Grace Commission’s Citizens Against Government Waste, and in 1994, he was one of only 35 members of the House to be cited by the Grace Commission for his votes against higher spending and taxes. In 1997, Rep. Porter had the best score of any House member in the bipartisan Concord Coalition’s analysis of spending votes, earning him a place on the Coalition’s “Honor Roll” of members with the strongest commitment to eliminating deficits and balancing the budget. The Concord Coalition placed Rep. Porter on its “Honor Roll” again for his 1998 voting record.

Congressman Porter is also in the vanguard on environmental issues and is regarded as one of the leaders of the “Green Republicans” in the House. A supporter of the Clean Air and Clean Water Act, he has enacted landmark legislation to stop destruction of tropical rainforests, fought to prevent unregulated export of waste, and has advocated new standards for recycling and energy efficiency. His leadership was recognized by his 1992 appointment as a member of the official U.S. Congressional Delegation to the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development (UNCED), better known as the “Earth Summit.” Since 1993, Porter has served as Vice-Chairman of the Global Legislators Organization for a Balanced Environment (GLOBEUSA).

Additionally, Congressman Porter is co-founder of the Congressional Coalition on Population and Development, an organization which advocates and defends international and domestic voluntary family planning programs. A strong supporter of the arts and humanities, Rep. Porter in 1999 was appointed to the Board of Directors of the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, one of only five House members to receive this honor.

Prior to his election to Congress, Porter served three terms, from 1973 through 1979, in the Illinois House of Representatives. As a state legislator, Porter earned plaudits for his leadership and legislative skills, steering a record 60 separate bills to final House passage without a single defeat in six years.

Porter was born June 1, 1935 in Evanston, Illinois. His father, the late Harry H. Porter of Evanston, was a Cook County Circuit Court Judge for many years. Porter attended the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and received his undergraduate degree from Northwestern University. Following service in the U.S. Army, he graduated with distinction from the University of Michigan Law School where he was an editor of the Michigan Law Review. After admission to the bar, Porter served as an Honor Law Graduate Attorney with the U.S. Department of Justice. From 1963 until his election to Congress, Porter practiced law in Evanston, Illinois.

Dr. David Satcher is the 16th Surgeon General of the United States. Sworn in on February 13, 1998, he is only the second person in history to simultaneously hold the positions of Surgeon General and Assistant Secretary for Health. In these roles, he serves as the Secretary’s senior advisor on public health matters and as director of the Office of Public Health and Science.

Prior to nominating Dr. Satcher to serve in his present post, President Clinton had appointed him as Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and Administrator of the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry, where he served from 1993 to 1998.

Before joining the Administration, he was President of Meharry Medical College in Nashville, Tennessee, from 1982 to 1993.

Dr. Satcher served as professor and Chairman of the Department of Community Medicine and Family Practice at Morehouse School of Medicine from 1979 to 1982. He is a former faculty member of the UCLA School of Medicine and Public Health and the King-Drew Medical Center in Los Angeles, where he developed and chaired the King-Drew Department of Family Medicine. From 1977 to 1979, he served as the Interim Dean of the Charles R. Drew Postgraduate Medical School, during which time, he negotiated the agreement with UCLA School of Medicine and the Board of Regents that led to a medical education program at King-Drew. He also directed the King-Drew Sickle Cell Research Center for six years.

Dr. Satcher is a former Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholar and Macy Faculty Fellow. He is the recipient of 18 honorary degrees and numerous distinguished honors, including top awards from the American Medical Association, the American College of Physicians, the American Academy of Family Physicians, and Ebony magazine. In 1995, he received the Breslow Award in Public Health and in 1997 the New York Academy of Medicine Lifetime Achievement Award. Earlier this year, he received the Bennie Mays Trailblazer Award and the Jimmy and Roslyn Carter Award for Humanitarian Contributions to the Health of Humankind from the National Foundation for Infectious Diseases.

Dr. Satcher graduated from Morehouse College in Atlanta in 1963 and was elected to Phi Beta Kappa. He received his M.D. and Ph.D. from Case Western Reserve University in 1970 with election to Alpha Omega Alpha Honor Society. He did residency/fellowship training at Strong Memorial Hospital, University of Rochester, UCLA, and King-Drew. He is a fellow of the American Academy of Family Physicians, the American College of Preventive Medicine, and the American College of Physicians.

Ernest L. Stebbins was inducted into Delta Omega, the public health honor society, as an honorary member for his achievements as a public health practitioner and administration.

Ernest L. Stebbins began his life in rural Iowa. He was educated at Drake University and Dartmouth College (B.S., 1925). In 1929, Stebbins received his M.D. from Rush Medical College at the University of Chicago. He stayed in Chicago to complete his residency, but eventually moved to Baltimore. In 1932, Stebbins received his Master of Public Health from the Johns Hopkins School of Hygiene and Public Health.

Stebbins worked in Virginia and New York after completing his education. He served as Health Commissioner in New York City and worked as a professor at Columbia University. In 1946, Stebbins found himself back in Baltimore as director of the School of Hygiene and Public Health. He became the dean of the School in 1958 and served in this capacity until 1967. Stebbins was essential in developing key departments of the school during his deanship (international health, population dynamics, and public health administration). Stebbins is both a dean emeritus and professor emeritus of the School.

During his career, Stebbins also “helped charter the World Health Organization””. Stebbins was dedicated to fostering and promoting international health. For example, he was involved in the “re-establish(ment) of a school of public health in the Philippines after World War II” (“Profiles in Public Health – Spotlight Profile: Ernest L. Stebbins,” http://support.jhsph.edu/sph/sphheros.chm?detail=3).

Being inducted as an honorary member of Delta Omega, the public health honorary society, was not the only event honoring the life and work of Abraham Horwitz. His was also elected for life to the Society of Scholars of the Johns Hopkins University and received the Bronfman Prize of the American Public Health Association. In his honor, PAHO awards the Abraham Horwitz Award for leadership in public health. In his native Chile, Horwitz received a doctor honoris causa by the University of Chile in 1991, the cruz del Sur from the Chilean government, and was named a University of Chile Professor Emeritus (adapted from http://www.uchile.cl/vaa/dci/iue/friend4298/f3b.html).

Abraham Horwitz, a native of Chile, was graduated in 1936 from the University of Chile medical school. In a recent article about him, it is noted that he chose to study medicine and infectious diseases because of his family’s experience as émigrés from Russia (adapted from “Pan American Health Organization Leader Abraham Horwitz, 89, Dies” from the washingtonpost.com). His parents were denied access into the United States and, ultimately, ended up in Chile because of an eye infection of his mother. After medical school he joined the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) and specialized in infectious diseases and public health.

In the early 1940s, Horwitz was a key player in the treatment of meningitis using sulfas, which greatly reduced the death rate. In 1944 Horwitz received his Master of Public Health from the Johns Hopkins School of Public Health. He also was appointed the director of the University of Chile’s School of Public Health. During the 1950s he worked for the Pan American Health Organization in Chile on smallpox eradication.

In 1958 he was elected to be the director of the Pan American Health Organization, a post, in which he served until 1975. Over the 17 years as director of PAHO, Horwitz was the only director to be elected and re-elected four times. He was dedicated to the health of in the Americas. He devoted much of his research to nutrition.

John D. Porterfield was inducted into Delta Omega as an honorary member for his dedicated career as a public health administrator.

The most prestigious award given by the Ohio Public Health Association is the John Porterfield Award.

In the 1950s, when administrators and scientists were deciding about the place of fluoride of the drinking water supply and its effect on pregnant women, John Porterfield worked for the U.S. Department of Agriculture. He is quoted as saying “There is more money available for matters that have economic value than there is for health” (Source: http://homepages.ihug.co.nz/~dcandmkw/fluoride/vchron6.htm).

Following years of work as a public health administrator, Porterfield took on the new role of director of the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations in 1965. He filled this role for 11 years. Under his directorship, the commission began the accreditation of long-term care, for organizations serving developmentally disabled persons, for psychiatric facilities, substance abuse programs, and community mental health programs, and for the accreditation for ambulatory health care facilities (adapted from “A Journey Through the History of the Join Commission.” available at http://jcprdw1.jcaho.org/aboutjc/hisjourney.html).

William Hallock Park was inducted into Delta Omega as a honorary member for his contributions as a bacteriologist and the development of the first municipal laboratory of diagnosis.

William Hallock Park was a trained bacteriologist at the turn of the twentieth century, a time when there were few bacteriologists. Dr. Park started his career as a bacteriologist at an emergency diagnostic laboratory in New York City. As part of the New York City Department of Health, Park worked on diagnosing many diseases as well as developing treatments for pathologies.

Dr. Park is noted for founding the Antitoxin Laboratory as part of the New York City Department of Health in 1906 (now a privately owned company called Alliance Pharmaceutical Corp). The Laboratory was located approximately 65 miles northwest of Manhattan. At this location antitoxins for diphtheria and tetanus were developed from horse sera.

Park also was key in establishing the Bureau of Laboratories in 1910. His work with the Bureau of Laboratories included inoculating the population of New York against diphtheria, pasteurization of milk, and the control of tuberculosis, as well as many other preventive treatments. Concurrently, starting in 1898, he held an appointment as Professor of Bacteriology at New York University.

Dr. Park retired from work with the Department of Health in 1936. He died in 1939.

Thomas Parran, Jr. was Surgeon General of the United States from 1936-1948. His work on syphilis control and administrative reform both contributed to Parran being inducted as an honorary member of Delta Omega in 1938.

Parran began his life in rural Maryland on his father’s tobacco farm. He won a scholarship to study at St. John’s College in Annapolis. His medical education was received at Georgetown University. His initial assignment with the Public Health Service’s Hygienic Laboratory was conducting research in the rural south on sanitation conditions and building privies. In 1917, Parran became an Assistant Surgeon and continued his work in rural health and santiation. In 1924, he received the equivalent of a master’s degree in public health. Parran drew the attention of Franklin D. Roosevelt, then governor of New York, and was assigned to New York State as a health commissioner. In this capacity, he was to develop a new framework for the delivery of health care in New York. Unfortunately, few of the recommendations in the framework were actually carried out. But, due to the resulting media attention after Parran’s radio talk on syphilis control was censored for language, Parran and his syphilis control program received national media coverage. This coverage was important in disseminating information about syphilis and modern forms of control of the disease.

Roosevelt, now President of the United States, appointed Parran to the committee, which “drafted the Social Security Act of 1935.” In 1936, Roosevelt again nominated Parran for an appointed position within the government; this time as Surgeon General. Syphilis control became the first major public health issue addressed by Surgeon General Parran. Funds were made available from the government to develop ‘rapid treatment centers.”

Both domestically and internationally, Parran thrived as Surgeon General. In 1943 and 1944, Parran restructured the Public Health Service into a 4-bureau structure. This restructuring, which remained in place until 1967, opened a new realm for the National Institute of Health, that of extramural funding. Parran worked in international health by serving with the Rockefeller Foundation, the Pan American Health Organization, and chairing an international health conference.

Upon his retirement from the Public Health Service in 1948, Parran continued in the role of public health administrator by becoming the first dean of the newly formed School of Public Health at the University of Pittsburgh. He was key in structuring the school and bringing the core of the researchers for the continuation of the school.

Upon his second retirement in 1958, Parran continued to work in public health. He was president of the Avalon Foundation and a trustee in the A.W. Mellon Educational and Charitable Trust. Parran died in 1968 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

Sir William Wilson Jameson was inducted into Delta Omega as an honorary member for his work as a public health doctor and administrator in England. The title of a 1970 book by Neville Goodman about Jameson sums up his contributions to the field: Wilson Jameson: Architect of national health.

Jameson was the medical officer of health at Finchley and deputy minister of health at St. Marylebone. He wrote with F.T. Marchant the first edition of Synopsis of Hygiene in 1920. This book was used as a standard public health textbook for over 50 years. In 1966, it went into a 12th edition printing.

Later in his career, Wilson became the Dean of the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.

George Walter McCoy dedicated his career to public health specializing in leprosy. In 1930 Delta Omega inducted McCoy into the honorary society as a honorary member.

McCoy, a native of Pennsylvania, began his medical career as a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania Medical School in 1898. He accepted a position with the Marine Hospital Service and was eventually assigned to the U.S. Plague Laboratory in San Francisco. While in San Francisco, McCoy developed an interest in leprosy. Eventually, his interests lead him to Hawaii where he became the director of the U.S. Leprosarium at Kalawao, Molokai. His eventful career in the Marine Hospital Service prepared him for his appointment in 1915 to director of the Hygienic Laboratory (later renamed the National Institute of Health). McCoy served as Director until 1937 and worked on influenza, small pox, tularemia, as well as many other diseases.

After retiring from public service in 1938, McCoy continued to conduct studies of leprosy. In 1938, he joined the department of preventive medicine and public health at Louisiana State University School of Medicine at New Orleans.

In 1931 McCoy was honored with the Sedgwick Memorial Medal of the American Public Health Association. He died in 1952 in Washington, D.C.

Brig. Gen. Frederick Fuller Russell’s work on controlling typhoid outbreaks in the military during the Spanish-American War helped save the lives of many military recruits. In 1929, Brig. Gen. Frederick Fuller Russell was inducted in Delta Omega as an honorary member.

In 1908, Brig. Gen. Russell (then only a major) spent time studying the anti-typhoid vaccination developed by Sir Almroth Wright. This vaccination involved the use of killed typhoid bacilli, which was a controversial therapy. After completing a through review, Fuller recommended the use of the vaccination for the U.S. troops. Anti-typhoid vaccination became mandatory for all troops in 1911.

Besides his career as a medical doctor in the Army, Fuller also served as the director of the International Health Division of the Rockefeller Foundation and was a Professor at Harvard University.

Herbert Hoover was the thirty-first president of the United States. In 1929 Delta Omega recognized him for his work in child health. President Hoover was very honored by his induction into the Society. In a 1942 article Edgar Hume, co-founder of Delta Omega, noted that the President “accepted at once” and had his “key presented (to him) at the White House”. It is also noted in the Hume article that President Hoover, while having been invited into two other Greek letter societies, held “only Greek letter membership…in Delta Omega” (Hume, Edgar, 1942).

Hoover was educated at Stanford University as a mining engineer after graduation. He worked in China “for a private corporation as China’s leading engineer” (www.whitehouse.gov/history/presidents/hh31.html). At the start of World War I, he found himself in Europe and aided Americans living overseas in returning to the United States due to the War. Throughout World War I, Hoover combated the problem of hunger in Europe. He became the head of the Food Administration under President Wilson. After the war, he helped feed Eastern Europe, where thousands of people were hungry.

Hoover was elected president in 1929, which coincided with the Great Depression. This ultimately led to a rocky road for the President. He made many efforts to alleviate the financial crisis of the nation. But, these policies were not enough to revitalize Hoover’s image, and he lost re-election for the White House in 1932.

After leaving the White House, Hoover was still involved in politics, serving on commissions to “reorganize the Executive Departments” under both Truman and Eisenhower. He died in 1964 in New York City.

Sources:
Hume, Edgar. 1942. “The Delta Omega Society.” Banta’s Greek Exchange. April. Pages. 138-141.

http://www.whitehouse.gov/history/presidents/hh31.html. Herbert Hoover: Thirty-First President 1929-1933.

Hugh Smith Cumming was inducted into the Delta Omega Public Health Honorary Society as an honorary member in 1929 while serving as the Surgeon General of the U.S. Public Health Service. He is noted for advances in medical inspection of immigrants for the prevention of further spread of contagious diseases, development of the Division of Narcotics (renamed the Division of Mental Hygiene), and the expansion of the original Hygienic Laboratory into the National Institute of Health.

Cumming, originally from Virginia, was a graduate of Baltimore City College, University of Virginia Department of Medicine, and the University College of Medicine (in Richmond, Virginia). He held two medical degrees! He began his career as an Assistant Surgeon at the Marine Hospital Service (the predecessor of the Pubic Health Service). As a young doctor, he was involved in many projects dealing with the health of immigrants coming to the United States. Cumming even served in Yokohama, Japan! A major occupation of Cumming was work as a sanitary advisor. During World War I, he studied ports in Europe to estimate the best manner in which to reduce and prevent disease contamination of the returning troops.

In 1920, Cumming became the Surgeon General of the Public Health Service. In this capacity, he served his country by developing the Public Health Service into a larger and more modern service. He continued work in immigration inspections by developing new plans that would limit the number of immigrants with infectious diseases arriving in the United States.

Under his tenure as Surgeon General, the Hygienic Laboratory in Bethesda, Maryland became the National Institute of Health. The Public Health Service as began caring for the medical and psychiatric health of federal prisoners. Unfortunately, also under his watch as Surgeon General, the Tuskagee Syphilis Experiment began in 1930. The experiment, which was “declared unethical and halted in 1973”, left hundreds of African American males untreated for syphilis (www.surgeongeneral.gov/library/history/biocumming.htm).

Cumming served as President of American Public Health Association in 1931. After retirement from public service in 1936, he continued to work in the field of pubic health serving as the Directory of Pan American Sanitary Bureau. He died in 1948 in Washington, DC.

Source:
http://www.surgeongeneral.gov/library/history/biocumming.htm. “Hugh Smith Cumming (1920-1936).”

Fifty years after his death, Charles Value Chapin is still remembered well in the city of Providence, Rhode Island. In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, he served as the Superintendent of Health for the City, founded the “nation’s first contagious disease hospital”, and was dedicated to the improving the health and well being of the citizens of Providence (www.health.state.ri.us/yhd04.htm). He was inducted as an honorary member into the Delta Omega Honorary Public Health Society in 1927.

Charles Value Chapin was a graduate of Brown University (1876), Columbia P&S, and Bellevue Hospital Medical College. In 1884 he became the Superintendent of Health for the City of Providence. He served in this capacity for 48 years! As the superintendent of health, Chapin observed a link between sanitation and the outbreak of diseases. He worked to improve the sanitation and sewer systems of the city. He is also noted for “identifying the source of a cholera outbreak in 1888” (www.health.state.ri.us/yhd04.htm). Chapin developed a system for mandatory reporting of contagious diseases. His dedication to controlling contagious diseases led to the development of the Providence City Hospital in 1910, designed specifically for individuals with contagious diseases. The hospital was later renamed the Chapin Hospital. Chapin died in 1941

Sara Josephine Baker was the first woman among the honorary inductees into Delta Omega. She was also among the first three honorary members in 1924. Her career as a doctor dedicated to improving child health in New York City and as a public health administrator for the City of New York were both impressive credentials.

Baker was the daughter of a privileged family, but the death of her father to typhoid put her planned Ivy League education out of reach. She decided to study medicine at the Women’s Medical College of New York Infirmary in New York City. The early exposure to typhoid in her family might have contributed to her desire to be a doctor.

After having a private practice for a few years, in 1901, Baker became a medical inspector for the New York City department of health. In 1907, she received a significant promotion and was appointed assistant to the Commissioner for Public Health of NYC. In this capacity, Baker developed a comprehensive plan for the promotion of better preventive health care for children. Focusing on preventive care, she implemented her pilot program in the East Side, which resulted in 1,200 fewer cases of infant mortality. The success of her preventive care for children program lead to the development of the Division of Child Hygiene in 1908 to which she was named Director. As the director of the Division of Child Hygiene (later a Bureau), Baker was responsible for the implementation of many programs dedicated to improving the health of children. For example, licensing of midwives helped to provide more knowledgeable birthing practitioners. The use of silver nitrate drops in the eyes of newborns became the norm to prevent blindness.

Her campaign to improve the health and welfare of children included training young girls to be childcare providers (“Little Mothers’ League”) and the organization of the Babies Welfare Association (later reorganized and named the Children’s Welfare Federation of New York). Her preventive medicine campaigns helped to decrease infant mortality from 144 deaths to children under one year of age per 1000 live births in 1908 to 66 deaths per 1000 live births in 1923 (www.britannica.com/women/articles/baker_sara_jospehine.html).

Besides work as a public administrator, Baker also lectured on child hygiene at New York University – Bellevue Hospital Medical School (1916-1930). She also served as a staff consultant to the Federal Children’s Bureau.

Baker was the first woman to receive a doctorate in public health in 1917. Upon her retirement in 1923, Baker was the first woman to be a representative to the League of Nations. Baker died in 1945 in New York City.

Watson Smith Rankin was one of the first three honorary inductees into the Delta Omega Public Health Honorary Society in 1924. His contribution to the health of North Carolinians merited honoring his career in public health.

Rankin received his medical degree from University of Maryland (he also studied medicine at North Carolina Medical College at Davidson College). He completed post-graduate work at Johns Hopkins Medical Institute, a 6-month residency at the University of Maryland, and a 13-month residency in pathology at the University Hospital in Baltimore, Maryland. Having completed his training in Maryland, Rankin returned to North Carolina to a position as Professor of Pathology at Wake Forest College. A few short years later he was named Dean of the School of Medicine at Wake Forest. One of his claims to fame was being appointed the first full-time health officer position in North Carolina as the Executive Secretary of the North Carolina State Board of Health.

In 1925 he became the Trustee for the Duke Endowment and Director of the Duke Hospital. Throughout his life, Watson was very active in the field of public health. He died September 8, 1970 and he is buried in Lincolnton, NC.

In 1924, Sir Arthur Newsholme became one of the first three honorary inductees into the Delta Omega Honorary Society. His distinguished career in public health merited his inclusion in the Society. He “stimulated the growth of knowledge and the application of fundamental principles in preventive medicine” (Delta Omega).

Sir Arthur Newsholme was a significant figure in the British health care system of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. He was a very gifted scholar, earning his medical degree in 1881. He also won many medals and scholarships as a student to support his medical studies. As a new M.D., he opened a small practice in Clapham. From historical documents it appears that his interest in hygiene was initially stimulated more by financial need than a mere interest in hygiene. For example, Newsholme wrote a series of textbooks on hygiene as a means to supplement his income. In 1885 Newsholme received his Diploma in Public Health from the University of London. He also became the part-time Medical Officer of Health in the London vestry of Clapham, which prepared him for his next appointment as the full-time Medical Officer of Health in the city of Brighton. He served in this capacity for 20 years.

As the Medical Officer of Health in Brighton, Newsholme was challenged by many health concerns in this seaside town. Brighton had major sanitation problems when Newsholme took office in 1888. He helped develop a more modern sewage system. Newsholme’s strategy for the prevention of tuberculosis and the development of the sanatorium treatment center for Brighton residents were some of his major accomplishments. The comprehensive preventive strategy employed helped reduce the amount of tuberculosis infections.

His success as the Medical Officer of Health in Brighton brought his career to the attention of the nominating committee for the Medical Officer of the Local Government Board in Whitehall. In 1908 he left the seaside town of Brighton to become the nominal head of the English public health service. Under his command, the national insurance plan, the national tuberculosis program, and new policy for combating venereal diseases were launched as major public health initiatives. His role as a public health administrative brought better health to the general public in Britain.

Newsholme was key in the development of the socialization of medical in England. He served his country until 1919 when upon his retirement he joined the newly formed Johns Hopkins School of Hygiene and Public Health as the first professor of public health administration. He stayed in this position for two years. For the next twenty years of his life, he traveled around the United States and Europe, lecturing, writing, and making observations about the health care systems in various countries. He died in May of 1943 in England.

Sources:

Delta Omega The Honorary Public Health Society: Organization, Constitution, By-Laws, List of Members p. 6.

See Eyler, John M. 1997. Sir Arthur Newsholme and State Medicine: 1885-1935. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.