Some Notable Alumni
- Leroy Edgar Burney (8th Surgeon General of the United States, first to publicly identify cigarette smoke as a cause of lung cancer)
- Virginia Apgar (Apgar test, Anesthesiology, Teratology, founder of the field of Neonatology)
- Alexander Langmuir (Epidemiologist, founder of the Epidemic Intelligence Service)
- George W. Comstock (Epidemiologist, Pioneer of tuberculosis control and treatment)
- Martha E. Rogers (Major figure in Nursing theory, created the Science of Unitary Human Beings)
- Donald A. Henderson (Eradication of smallpox, Presidential Medal of Freedom, former Dean 1977 - 1990)
- Andrew Spielman (Major figure in the modern history of public health entomology & vector-borne diseases)
- Alfred Sommer (Nutrition, Discovered efficacy of Vitamin A in reducing child mortality, former Dean 1990 - 2005)
- Miriam Were (African health advocate, recipient of the Légion d'honneur & the Hideyo Noguchi Africa Prize)
- Antonia Novello (14th Surgeon General of the United States)
- Bernard Roizman (Virologist, world's foremost expert on the Herpes Simplex Virus)
- Linda Rosenstock (Dean of the University of California, Los Angeles School of Public Health)
- Peter Pronovost (Intensive care checklist protocol, Time 100 (2008), MacArthur Fellow)
- Miriam Alexander (President of the American College of Preventive Medicine)
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